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Spy agencies hit in cyber espionage campaign: Kaspersky Lab

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab said they have uncovered a cyber espionage operation that successfully penetrated two spy agencies and hundreds of government and military targets in Europe and...

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How Cyber Business Intelligence Can Be Your “Canary in the Boardroom”

Cyber Business Intelligence is Quickly Becoming the “Canary in the Boardroom”

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Cancer Clinic Employee Charged with Theft of Patient Data

More than 2,000 current and former patients may be affected.

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Gemalto to Acquire SafeNet for $890 Million

European security firm Gemalto said on Friday that it has agreed to buy data protection firm SafeNet for $890 million in cash.

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Thousands of U.S. Devices Infected With New Gameover Zeus Variant: Report

Researchers at Bitdefender have been monitoring two new Gameover Zeus variants spotted in the wild and found that most of the computers they have infected are located in the United States and Ukraine.

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Yahoo CISO Details Challenge of Security at Scale

Security vendors focus on banks not Web-scale companies, says Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos.

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Russia bans anonymous Wi-Fi

Users will be required to provide a full name and ID and to identify hardware.

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Infiniti Q50 Listed Among Most Hackable Cars, Nissan to Investigate

Following the report from two security researchers that Infiniti Q50 was among the most hackable three cars in a batch of 20 products, Nissan began investigating the claims of insecurity.The two...

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Podcast: Inside the Epic Turla Cyber-Espionage Campaign

Director of Kaspersky Lab Global Research Analysis Team Costin Raiu joins the podcast to discuss the latests discoveries surrounding the Epic Turla cyber-espionage campaign.

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FinFisher Used to Spy on Democracy Protesters in Bahrain

The leaked documents from Gamma Group, the company developing the FinFisher spy tool (also known as FinSpy) for governments and law enforcement agencies, reveal that the utility was used by the Bahrain...

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No arrest of P Power alleged hacker

Jason Ferguson, a Canadian named but who denies being the person who allegedly hacked the details of 650,000 Paddy Power users is unlikely to face prosecution.

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Russian accused of hacking US businesses’ computers pleads not guilty to 29...

A Russian lawmaker’s son accused of hacking computers at hundreds of U.S. businesses and stealing credit card information pleaded not guilty to 29 charges Friday.

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Tech mogul John McAfee goes to hackers’ conference with new complaint website

John McAfee, the flamboyant anti-virus software industry pioneer, made a surprise appearance at a computer hackers’ conference on Friday evening, where he unveiled a new website to give people a place...

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“Virtual Kidnapping” Scammers Become More Targeted

Scammers running the virtual kidnapping extortion trick have started to direct their attention towards doctors, which is a more lucrative segment than random picking of the victims.The FBI, San Antonio...

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Lurk Malware Dropper Hides Remote Server Links Inside Images

Cybercriminals operating Lurk malware dropper are currently hiding malicious data inside images, leveraging what is called steganography, a stealth technique that in digital world allows embedding data...

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Rihanna Leaked Adult Tape Comes Third in Top 10 Facebook Scams

A new report from a security firm on the most prevalent scams currently making the rounds on Facebook shows that scammers are more successful with other lures than the promise of viewing adult material...

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Seven ways DARPA is trying to kill the password

A seemingly constant stream of data breaches and this week’s news that Russian hackers have amassed a database of 1.2 billion Internet credentials has many people asking: Isn’t it time we dumped the...

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Russian Organized Crime: Krem D’la Krem of Hackers

The Russians have definitely comea in the world of cybercrime . A Russian ring of hackers has amassed 1.2 billion stolen passwords and usernames involving 400,000 websites.

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10,000 Impacted by Resurging Facebook Color Changing App Scam

The prospect of changing the color of the Facebook profile is enticing enough for the average social networking user to follow a link, and scammers know this all too well; thats why they started using...

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I’ve been hacked, now what?

You’re not special; a hacker CAN get into your computer or smartphone. Would you know how to clean up this mess? Start by locating the portal through which the hacker got in such as a browser, emal...

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