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Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Years of massive data breaches have fueled an increase in synthetic identity fraud, in which fraudsters combine real and bogus details to...

Six Bitcoiners cuffed for electricity heist Chinese media is reporting the seizure of 600 Bitcoin miners in the northern municipality of Tianjin, on the grounds of electricity theft.…

A Wide Assortment of Hacker, Insider Incidents ReportedThe reporting of major health data breaches has spiked in recent weeks, with a wide variety of incidents reported. So what's behind the surge?

More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.”

A recent FBI public service advisory warned of an increase in reports of compromised or spoofed emails involving W-2 forms.

Use of Outdated Operating Systems Remains Widespread, Says ESET's Mark JamesAs the WannaCry outbreak demonstrated, many organizations run outdated operating systems. Too often when systems - and...

Ransomware-as-a-Service Market Expands Beyond Affiliates to 'Elite' ProgramsWith massive profits available to criminals who can infect PCs and servers and extract a ransom, it's no surprise that...

Mobile ransomware attacks spike in the first quarter of 2017, growing three and a half times compared to the previous year.

Apple revealed this week that it received at least one National Security Letter from the U.S. government for user data during the last six months of 2016
