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GFI’s VIPRE Report for January 2012 reveals that cybercriminals took advantage of every single hot topic to launch their malicious campaigns, targeting gamers, small businesses and even government organizations. Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and the Halo video game series represented great opportuni... |
9 February 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Contrary to popular beliefs, bigger isn’t always necessary better. This is especially true when it comes to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks where instead of size, much more significant is the type of attack. This is just one of the conclusions published by Radware’s Emergency Response Team (... |
6 February 2012
10:49 GMT |
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A study released by security firm NCC reveals the origins of most hacking operations and the estimated damages they cause to the global economy each year.
The numbers show that hackers from the UK cost the global economy over $2 billion (1.4 billion EUR) in the year that passed, counting a total of 23 million hack a... |
2 February 2012
09:38 GMT |
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A recent study commissioned by McAfee and produced by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA), a Brussels-based defense and security think-tank, reveals the opinions of policy-makers and cyber-security experts in government, business and academia from 35 countries on the currently existent cyber threats and the measures ... |
31 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A recent study shows that online stalking and bullying affect a lot of Internet users from the United States and most citizens believe that local law enforcement authorities have insufficient resources and capabilities to handle such incidents.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) issued a report to reveal th... |
25 January 2012
04:51 GMT |
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Collaborating with the Ministry of the Economy and Foreign Trade of Luxemburg, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) released a report to highlight the need of education when it comes to online security.
Since in the past couple of years online security started affecting both companies and ind... |
19 January 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Researchers from F-Secure have put together a report to show the evolution of new threats that target Apple systems. The numbers show the new unique variants the company’s threat researchers detected during the last three quarters of 2011.
More than half of the malicious elements that targeted Mac-running mach... |
17 January 2012
06:48 GMT |
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AegisLabs released a report that sums up the distribution of malware types in 2011 and the numbers are worryingly high.
Most of the 14 million unique pieces of malware detected on a global level were Trojans, their numbers representing close to 65% of all threats.
Around 11% were packed malware, totaling 1.5 mill... |
11 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) analyzed the preview version of the latest AOL Instant Messenger and concluded that users should not install it due to some serious privacy concerns it raised.
The first issue is that conversation logs are stored by default and secondly, all private instant messages are scann... |
5 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Facebook attacks were not uncommon in 2011 and the figures revealed that cybercriminals may have made millions with the help of some clever technology, but also with the help of unsuspecting members who clicked on anything they thought to be interesting.
The numbers show that social engineering is an important part ... |
4 January 2012
10:29 GMT |
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While close to 50% of United States citizens declare that they are able to identify a scam or a shady marketing technique, when tested more than half of the 1,858 consumers showed they would be likely to provide personal information to claim a prize after completing an online survey.
The figures show that online don... |
4 January 2012
06:50 GMT |
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The predictions made by security company McAfee for 2012 are interesting from all the perspectives that concern companies, governments and individuals.
The company’s researchers conclude, based on the events that took place in the year that’s just about to pass, that hacktivist movements will either evo... |
30 December 2011
03:07 GMT |
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Saying that social networking has taken over the web will fail to surprise anyone at this point. Facebook and everyone in its tow are huge and they're getting bigger.
As social gets woven into more and more websites, it's getting harder to stay away and data released by comScore shows exactly that.
82 per... |
22 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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A report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) highlights the fact that security is not taken as seriously as it should be in the maritime sector.
The figures show that 52% of the goods traffic in 2010 was made by sea, which means that this sector of the industry is highly important both ... |
22 December 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Researchers from ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, and UCI, Irvine, in the United States released a paper in which they reveal the results of their experiments done with the purpose of simulating a Global Positioning System (GPS) attack, similar to the one allegedly used by Iran to capture the RQ-170 warplane.
The paper c... |
22 December 2011
02:59 GMT |
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After hackers managed to breach their member community portal last week, Square Enix representatives came forward with a statement to reassure their customers that no personal information ended up in the hands of hackers.
When the breach was first discovered, the community website was taken offline since there was a... |
20 December 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Since 2011 is nearly over, security solutions providers are coming forward with predictions about the year to come. Panda Security is one of the companies that will enlighten us with some interesting insight on what’s about to happen. First, it’s expected that the rise of social engineering techniques th... |
19 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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A recent study made by Lookout Mobile Security reveals that mobile malware has become a reality, cybercriminals managing to illegally earn more than $1 million (700,000 EUR) only from Android users, experts estimating that next year things will get even worse.
The figures show that the likelihood for an Android user... |
15 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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After in September 2011 they temporarily shut down their certificate issuance services, GlobalSign released a report with their conclusions on the events that took place after they’ve learned that ComodoHacker breached their systems.
On the positive side of things, they state that no rogue certificates were i... |
15 December 2011
06:54 GMT |
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A serious issue, that shouldn’t exist in the first place, has been brought to our attention by a recent report released by Security Metrics. As it turns out, the number of merchants that store their customers’ credit card data in an unencrypted form is higher than ever.
The latest Merchant Data Security ... |
15 December 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Symantec’s November Intelligence Report reveals some interesting details on the evolution of cyberattacks and how many of them were successfully mitigated by the security solutions provider.
Worryingly, on average, 94 targeted attacks were blocked each day in November, the most frequently targeted industry bei... |
7 December 2011
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The water&stone Agency published its annual Open Source CMS Market Share Report, the most comprehensive study about open source CMS usage amongst web professionals.The report comprises statistical usage data about the 20 most used CMSs around the web.As in the previous years, the top three remained the same, with Wor... |
2 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Recent inquiries revealed that the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) is having difficulties taking care of their IT equipment, the number of device losses from May 2010 totaling somewhere close to 1000.
In a response to a TheyWorkForYou inquiry, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Andrew Robathan revealed... |
29 November 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Muammar Gaddafi, Steve Jobs and the holidays are still the favorite topics used in spam campaigns by cybercriminals who in one way or another are set on making a profit.
Kaspersky's October spam report reveals that in the past month spam email traffic increased with 1.4% compared to September, but on the positi... |
24 November 2011
08:42 GMT |
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The third quarter report released by Prolexic reveals some interesting details about the tactics, average duration, origin countries and the volumes of cyberattacks that took place in the past period.
Figures show that most hits were actually SYN floods (24%), closely followed by ICMP floods (22%) and UD floods (19%... |
21 November 2011
02:49 GMT |
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A study reveals that while the internet and new technologies represent an important role in the lives of youths, the phenomenon has some negative sides which can have serious consequences if not treated accordingly.
Numbers from Norton's Online Family Report show that 62% of children had at least one negative e... |
18 November 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Security experts predict that next year the industry will face a lot of new challenges, many of the things that until now have not been considered so important, will affect regular users and organizations worldwide.
Websense Security Labs released their predictions for 2012 concerning the threats that will target in... |
18 November 2011
07:29 GMT |
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The cyberattacks launched recently by hackers are difficult to contain and imply high costs to companies that want to protect their infrastructures against them, shows a recent report released by F5 Networks.
Eweek informs us that organizations are struggling hard to defend themselves against four of the five most c... |
8 November 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Trying to put the hype into numbers, McKinsey & Company concluded a research to evaluate the Internet's impact on the World's economy. It approximates the Internet's total revenue at around $8 trillion.The research only took data from 13 countries, the G8, meaning Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,... |
7 November 2011
11:26 GMT |
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The use of public URL shortening services makes it more difficult for anti-spam countermeasures to detect and block the malicious messages sent by cyber masterminds in their effort to take over our digital assets.
The latest Symantec Intelligence Report reveals that the number of spam messages dropped by 0.6% compar... |
26 October 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Even if Sony emphasized time and time again that its PlayStation 3 is still going to be around for quite some time, new reports indicate that the Japanese company has tasked some of its internal development studios to start working on game projects for the PlayStation 4.Current generation consoles are supposedly here... |
24 October 2011
10:11 GMT |
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There are a number of ways in which mobile malware can show up on a PC, lately many situations presenting themselves for these malevolent apps make their appearance on desktop computers.
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has been constantly checking the frequency of different threats that normally target mobil... |
20 October 2011
09:47 GMT |
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AVG Technologies, a world renowned security provider, has recently released the results of a survey trying to determine which U.S. city inhabitants are most gullible when it comes to digital scams.The residents of 35 major cities were put to the test and the results were conclusive.The study showed that 40 percent of... |
5 September 2011
06:26 GMT |
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McAfee recently released a second quarter report for 2011 in which they highlight the challenges posed by hacktivist groups such as LulzSec and Anonymous. One of the most important changes that occurred in the malware security field was that mobile platforms became more targeted. In the first quarter of 2011, Andro... |
5 September 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Over the second quarter of 2011, online video ad trends have shifted to the classic TV model, with several advertising breaks during long video content. This according to a report by FreeWheel, a company renown for its online ad management and delivery services.The study showcases how content suppliers are moving awa... |
18 August 2011
12:48 GMT |
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A batch of new reports are hinting that Valve, the developer behind massively successful games like Half Life, Portal or Team Fortress, is getting ready to deploy a new installment in its extremely popular Counter-Strike series, called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Valve is notoriously secretive about its projects... |
12 August 2011
07:05 GMT |
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The Department of Homeland Security has released a report on Anonymous, advising US federal, state and local government departments and agencies, as well as their private sector partners, to review their defences.The unclassified report [pdf] put together by DHS' National Cybersecurity & Communications Integrati... |
3 August 2011
14:09 GMT |
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Android users are twice more likely to encounter malware now than they were at the beginning of the year, according to a report from mobile security vendor Lookout.This rate has been calculated by taking into account the rapid growth of Android malware from a number of 80 malicious apps six months ago to 400 in June.... |
3 August 2011
09:18 GMT |
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Last year, the British Security Service (MI5) asked communications providers for subscriber data on 134 telephone numbers who weren't relevant to any investigation because of a spreadsheet formatting error.The incident was disclosed in a report recently published by interception of communications commissioner Si... |
4 July 2011
11:57 GMT |
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A new lighter and more power efficient version of the PlayStation 3 home console is reported to appear in the following weeks with retailers from around the world, depending on their current stocks.Sales of the PlayStation 3 home console really took off with the arrival of the revised PlayStation 3 "Slim" edition, wh... |
20 June 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Last week, Nicolas Cage’s son Weston was taken to the hospital for mental evaluation after getting into a street fight with a man believed to have been his personal trainer. As it turns out, the man had been hired by Nic Cage himself to track down Weston and bring him home. As the rocker remains in hospital bei... |
14 June 2011
05:44 GMT |
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An in-house Wikipedia study revealed that editors contribute to the site mainly because of their passion for freely available information. The report also showcased that men, compared to women are still the main contributors to Wikipedia's knowledge-base.During the month of April, Wikimedia, the foundation that ... |
11 June 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Chinese Internet users spend a quarter of their time on web portals, according to a recent ComScore report. Unlike the rest of the world, social networks aren't a primary target in China, being edged out by entertainment and even search websites.If you needed another piece of proof the country is different from... |
9 June 2011
11:42 GMT |
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A brand new report about the Nintendo Wii successor has just surfaced, this time detailing the onboard storage of the new console as well as the capacity of the discs it will use for games or the resolution it will play them on.
The successor to the Nintendo Wii has been rumored for quite some time now, but, after... |
4 May 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A Wikimedia study shows that almost 40% of all new Wikipedia contributors get negative feedback on their first edits. The percentage excludes users that got banned for spam, vandalism or registering multiple accounts.The study analyzed a random batch of user edits made to talk pages for new users on English Wikipedia... |
4 May 2011
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A massive rumor has just appeared concerning the next iteration in Sony's God of War franchise, with a report saying that God of War 4 is set to appear on September 2012.
Sony's God of War series may have seen the end of its trilogy last year, when God of War 3 concluded the adventures of Kratos, but thi... |
21 April 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Facebook's efforts of becoming a real advertising power are paying off. For the first time, it ranked in the top 10 of most viewed ad networks, according to the most recent ComScore Top 50 U.S. Web Properties report (January 2011, US only data).Dominating the ad market as expected is Google with a 93.1% reach an... |
22 February 2011
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Katie Holmes’ latest indie movie, “Son of No One,” just screened at Sundance and, according to some reports, it prompted an “exodus” with audiences and even some muffled boos. As it turns out, things were quite the opposite of that in the screening theater.The film also stars Al Pacino, ... |
26 January 2011
04:41 GMT |
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A brand new report from the analysts at Wedbush Securities says that Activision's extremely successful Call of Duty franchise will see the introduction of a multiplayer-only spinoff release, which will aid in the monetizing of the series.
Ever since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare broke the mold in terms of sale... |
4 January 2011
04:40 GMT |
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