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41% Of Online Fraud Victims Never Recover Lost Funds Says Kaspersky Report
According to a recent Kaspersky Labs report and survey, things do not look good for online fraud victims. Apparently 41% of victims did not recover any of the lost funds while 45% recovered them all and 14% partially recovered them. 33% of victims had the money stolen during an e-Payment checkout operation,…
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German Security Provider Says 750 PayPal Phishing Sites Are Created Daily
PayPal phishing schemes drive me mad. I probably get about 5-10 emails everyday across my various work and personal email accounts from phishing sites trying to trick me into handing over PayPal details. A German email security provider has shed light on why this is such a frequent occurrence. Apparently…
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Wikipedia Pushing Ahead With Encryption To Lock NSA Out
Wikipedia is taking steps to ensure that the NSA cannot spy on it or its users by adding encryption to the website wherever possible according to RT. Users that login will now have to use secure encryption when on the site and visitors to the website will use the HTTPS…
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Windows 8.1 Features Improved Malware Resistance And Data Protection
At this week’s Black Hat 2013 conference Microsoft has been busy explaining some of the newest security features for its Windows 8.1 Operating System. Microsoft is trying to push Windows 8.1 to the business community and has promised that “pervasive device encryption” means employee data is always safe on their…
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Former NSA Director Says Huawei Is A Threat To National Security
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review the former director of the American National Security Agency (NSA), General Michael Hayden, stated that the Chinese firm Huawei (who sell various smartphones, tablets and other electronics) are a threat to both American and Australian national security. The former NSA director believes…
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Reports Suggest MSI.com Has Been Hacked And Injected With Malware Code
According to unconfirmed reports MSI.com has recently been hacked and can distribute Malware code. The report states that cyber-criminals have hacked MSI.com and have altered it to distribute malware that is hosted by Kristians1(dot)net and some other shady websites. The writer of the report, Conrad Longmore of Dynamoo’s Blog, reports…
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Bug Bounty Claimed By Google Employee!
Microsoft and other big browser companies often give out “bug bounties” for people who can discover exploits in their software. Microsoft offered up a rather large bug bounty for Internet Explorer 11 and is offering up to $11,000 for every security flaw people can find in the browser. Katie Moussouris,…
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EU Adopts Tough Anti-Cybercrime Legislation
Cybercrime is a growing problem of the modern age and on Thursday the European Parliament adopted a new set of rules to fight cybercrime with a more tough stance. The new measures came in with a majority vote of 541 for and 91 against and all EU nations must adopt…
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Americans Worried About Account Hacks, But Can’t Be Bothered With Extra Security
According to a new report, by Harris Interactive on behalf of Imperium, 79% of Americans have stated that they are worried about their accounts, for various online services, being hacked/compromised yet 75% of them say they have never used two factor authentication and 27% of them say they just cannot…
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Opera Gets Hacked, Expired Certificate Signing Code Stolen
According to Opera’s official blog they have recently halted and contained a targeted attack on the company’s internal network. Opera’s Sigbjørn Vik said that on June 19th an attack took place which didn’t compromise any user data but stole at least one old and expired Opera code signing certificate. Hackers can…
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British Spy Agency Worse Than The NSA, Monitors Huge Amounts Of Internet Traffic
You thought the NSA were bad right? – Tapping into the internet data of Americans in the name of fighting terrorism and national security. The NSA’s British equivalents, the GCHQ, are apparently much worse according to a report by the Guardian. The GCHQ, or Government Communication Head Quarters of…
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Experts Reveal Criminal DIY Bitcoin Mining Tool
The Security Experts “Webroot” have revealed a subscription-based criminal DIY mining malware tool. Apparently they found this tool on a Cybercrime forum and the tool can be used to Bitcoin mine on malware infected PCs. “The Bitcoin mining tool comes with a DIY generating tool, start up functionality, installation persistence,…
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Facebook Bug Exposes Data Of 6 Million Users
Facebook revealed in a security update announcement that a bug had made the data of six million users vulnerable. Apparently it was possible to use Facebook’s data export tool to reveal six million email addresses and usernames.Facebook says the data was not widely leaked and the data only reached a…
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The Pirate Party Demands European Response To PRISM Scandal
The PRISM “scandal” originating the USA has triggered public outcry in the USA as well as across the world. The Pirate Party who are very much anti-American due to the long history of copyright battles have today revealed their AntiPRISM website and call to action against PRISM. The Pirate Party…
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Microsoft Follows Facebook In Releasing Government Request Data To The Public
Microsoft, Google and Facebook all joined together recently to demand more transparency about government data requests and being able to reveal details of these to their user base. Facebook recently revealed that it had to release data on some some 19,000 individuals at the legal request of the American government. Yet…
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