Security News

The Price of Cybercrime: 9 Years in One Case, 6 Months in Another
2018-02-02 10:56

Travon Williams, 33, was sentenced by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to 9 years in jail for his role in a credit card fraud and identity theft scheme. read more

Cybercrime as a Service: Tools + Knowledge = Profit
2018-02-01 13:48

Supply and demand are meant to have an inverse relationship. But on darknet marketplaces, there's both an abundant supply of cybercrime products and services as well as lots of demand, says...

Insights from 700M thwarted cyberattacks show how the fight against cybercrime has intensified
2018-01-17 13:30

2017 was a record-setting year in the fight against cybercrime. Based on analysis of real world cybercrime attacks, ThreatMetrix confirmed a 100 percent increase in volume of attacks over the last...

UK Spy Chiefs Peel Back Secrecy -- to Fight Cybercrime
2017-12-14 19:10

Britain's cyber-spooks are reaching out from behind their veil of secrecy with the aim of cultivating the nation's next generation of high-tech sentries -- a move not without security risks. read more

Cybercrime is Not Seasonal
2017-12-04 15:01

Security and Intelligence Professionals Are Concentrating on Far More Than Just Seasonal Threats read more

Financial Sector Under Increasing Cybercrime Threat
2017-11-09 14:48

Europol Chief Sounds Warnings Over Ransomware, Russian-Speaking ConglomeratesThe financial sector is under increasing threat from cybercrime syndicates, and the distributed nature of today's...

Top digital transformation challenges? Cybercrime and espionage
2017-11-09 13:00

In Frost & Sullivan’s recent survey covering end-user perspectives on navigating digital transformation, 54 per cent of IT professionals cited cybercrime and espionage as their top challenges,...

Estonia Arrests Alleged Russian Agent Plotting Cyber-Crime
2017-11-07 17:51

Estonia said Tuesday it had arrested a suspected Russian spy allegedly plotting a cyber-crime, in the latest incident to strain relations between the small Baltic state and the Kremlin. read more

Cybercrime Battle: Next Steps (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-18 11:03

Europol Adviser Brian Honan Talks Privacy, Crime, Policing and CryptoDemands by politicians that people must be willing to surrender their privacy rights to help security services battle...