Security News

Online transaction fraud to reach $25 billion by 2020 (Help Net Security)
2016-05-04 13:00

Online transaction fraud is expected to reach $25.6 billion by 2020, up from $10.7 billion last year, according to Juniper Research. This means that by the end of the decade, $4 in every $1,000 of...

Europol to get new powers to disrupt terrorists’ online presence (Help Net Security)
2016-05-02 14:58

The EU police agency Europol is expected to gain new powers that will help it fight terrorism and cybercrime, thanks to new governance rules endorsed by Civil Liberties Committee MEPs on Thursday....

1 in 10 people have posed as someone else online (Help Net Security)
2016-04-29 13:00

Our need for ease and convenience is putting our digital identities and security at risk. A new BehavioSec report finds that 37% of us have shared our personal security data with a friend or...

Gold-mining firm Goldcorp hacked, its data leaked online (Help Net Security)
2016-04-28 17:37

Canadian gold-mining company Goldcorp has suffered a data breach of seemingly catastrophic proportions. On Tuesday, the attackers leaked a lot of sensitive internal data about the company and its...

Info of Qatar National Bank customers, Al Jazeera staff, others, leaked online (Help Net Security)
2016-04-27 15:30

A ZIP file containing information supposedly stolen in a hack of the Qatar National Bank has been published on whistleblower site Cryptome on Tuesday. The contents of the Qatar data dump The data...