OTTAWA — Nearly 60 per cent of Canadians have been victims of virus, spyware or malware attacks on the devices they use to access the Internet. But relatively few think they’ll be affected by an online threat in the near future, and many are only scratching the surface of protective…
State MVD To Help Victims Of ID Theft
Agency Will Issue Special Driver’s Licenses With Codes View full post on id theft jail – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
SpyEye Trojan stole $3.2 million from US victims
A Russian cybergang headed by a mysterious ringleader called ‘Soldier’ were able to steal $3.2 million (£2 million) from US citizens earlier this year using the SpyEye-Zeus data-stealing Trojan, security company Trend Micro has reported. Over a six month period from January 2011, Trend found that the Soldier gang had…
Hundreds of Va. Residents Victims of Credit Card Scam
Hundreds of residents in Winchester and Frederick County have reported being victims of a credit card scam. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Local businesses victims of credit card scam
REXBURG – Companies around the region selling computer and networking equipment are selling merchandise to unknown customers using faulty or stolen credit cards. View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Code reveals your Facebook stalking victims
There is a way to find out whose Facebook pages you loiter on most — a bit of code that ranks people according to who you’re most likely to search for. But you may be surprised by the results. View full post on firefox hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results…
Malware mints virtual currency using victim’s GPU
Security researchers have unearthed a piece of malware that mints a digital currency known as Bitcoins by harnessing the immense power of an infected machine’s graphical processing units. According to new research from antivirus provider Symantec, Trojan.Badminer uses GPUs to generate virtual coins through a practice known as minting. That’s…