Security News

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...

Week in review: Acunetix 11 review, BEC scams exposed, innovation and cybercrime (Help Net Security)
2017-07-17 01:45

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: 751 domains hijacked to redirect visitors to exploit kit An unknown attacker has managed to modify the name servers...

Two New Platforms Found Offering Cybercrime-as-a-Service to 'Wannabe Hackers' (The Hackers News)
2017-07-15 03:57

Cybercrime has continued to evolve and today exists in a highly organised form. Cybercrime has increasingly been commercialised, and itself become big business by renting out an expanded range of...

Don’t let cybercrime hold your innovation to ransom (Help Net Security)
2017-07-13 15:47

When things break, our natural instinct is to look for someone to blame. Why? Because nothing happens by accident. It’s either done on purpose, a casualty of neglect or lack of preparation. Trust...

The FBI and You: Investigating Cybercrime (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-30 18:48

Todd Carroll of Chicago FBI on Importance of Collaboration to Deter AttacksAs nation-state directed cybercrime increases, the FBI is bringing counter-intelligence expertise to bear in its...

Cybersecurity trends: Fight against cybercrime shows both improvements and downsides (Help Net Security)
2017-06-21 12:30

Trustwave released the 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report which reveals the top cybercrime, data breach and security threat trends from 2016. The report demonstrates both good and bad news in...

"FIN10" Cybercrime Group Extorts Canadian Firms (Security Week)
2017-06-16 12:07

A profit-driven cybercrime group tracked as FIN10 has been running an extortion operation mainly targeting organizations in North America, security firm FireEye reported on Friday. read more