Cybercrime News
FTC appoints privacy advocate as adviser
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired Paul Ohm, a privacy advocate and critic of current online privacy practices, as a senior privacy adviser...
Italian court upholds Apple warranty fine
An Italian court has upheld a a!900,000 (US$1.2 million) fine imposed on Apple by Italy's competition authority for allegedly violating consumer...
Cyber warfare in sights at government training conference
The prospect of cyberwar means the U.S. needs to 'rethink every aspect of defense,' says one summit presenter
Twitter jumps on Do Not Track bandwagon
Twitter has announced support for "Do Not Track," immediately implementing it to halt online tracking of users who trigger a setting in...
Cyber spies exploiting Java, Flash flaws
Such activity is often paid for, or sanctioned by, government agencies
Android hackers honing skills in Russia
The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps...
Thwarted by security at enterprises, cyber criminals target SMBs
Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and...
Kaspersky denies it's working with Apple on Mac security
Company is conducting an 'in-depth analysis of Mac OS X vulnerabilities,' but not at the request of Apple, CTO says
Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy
Facebook said on Friday that it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but...
Training workers to be cyber safe
Cyber thieves and scam artists have become more sophisticated in their means to steal login credentials and gain access to valuable information or...
How to Control Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook's privacy settings are confusing by design, often hiding similar settings in totally different menus and defaulting to unnerving levels...
Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit
Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense...
California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords
The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or...
U.S. seeking to build international unity around cyberdefense for industrial control systems
In the interests of thwarting cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as energy, water and manufacturing, the Department of Homeland Security...
New York City agency pushes plan to prevent cyberattacks on elevators, boilers
Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems...
APT attackers are increasingly using booby-trapped RTF documents, experts say
Booby-trapped RTF documents are one of the most common types of malicious Microsoft Office files that are used to infect computers with advanced...
Police-themed ransomware starts targeting US and Canadian users
A ransomware application that locks computers and asks their owners to pay fines for allegedly violating several laws through their online activity...
Security of industrial control systems questioned at DHS conference
Operators of America's vital power, water and manufacturing facilities use industrial control systems (ICS) to manage them, and the security of these...
Twitter resists subpoena to release user's data without warrant
Twitter is contesting a court order requiring it to turn over private data on a user charged with disorderly conduct during the Occupy Wall Street...
Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint
Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of users'...
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