Security Archive

Met’s email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times – MP


Scotland Yard keeps mum
Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to “give a running commentary” on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson’s narration of the saga.…

Met’s email hack probe turns spotlight on The Times – MP


Scotland Yard keeps mum
Scotland Yard officers investigating allegations of computer hacking by News International staff have declined to “give a running commentary” on their probe, batting away MP Tom Watson’s narration of the saga.…

New Trojan routes your bank’s calls to CROOKS


That’s right, I really just ordered 10 plasma tellies…
Devious cybercrooks have developed a banking Trojan that is capable of redirecting calls your bank has made to verify suspicious transactions – straight into the waiting handsets of professional criminal caller services.…

MasterCard joins Visa in pushing PINs into America


13 months and counting
MasterCard has published its roadmap for getting Americans to use chip-and-PIN cards in stores, following Visa’s lead in proposing to replace swipe cards by April 2013.…

MasterCard joins Visa in pushing PINs into America


13 months and counting
MasterCard has published its roadmap for getting Americans to use chip-and-PIN cards in stores, following Visa’s lead in proposing to replace swipe cards by April 2013.…

Fraud baron forced henchmen into S&M orgies to prove loyalty – cops


Card cloner’s ‘bizarre initiation tests’ to weed out undercover Feds
A US card cloner forced would-be gang members to take part in group sex sessions as part of an initiation ceremony designed to weed out undercover cops, according to a detective.…

Romanian cops cuff suspected serial hacker TinKode


Alleged Royal Navy, Pentagon invader gets keelhauled
Romanian police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into the websites of NASA and the Pentagon in a series of high-profile hack attacks.…

Trojan smuggles out nicked blueprints as Windows Update data


Malware backdoors government-targeted kit ‘using Adobe 0-days’
Security watchers have uncovered a new highly targeted email-borne attack that uses a supposed conference invitation as a lure – and disguises extracted data as Microsoft Update traffic.…

Virus-slingers abuse WordPress vulns, dose punters with exploit


Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan
Malware-spreaders are hacking into vulnerable WordPress-powered sites in order to drive traffic towards pages loaded with exploits.…

Virus-slingers abuse WordPress vulns, dose punters with exploit


Blogs also infected with information-harvesting Trojan
Malware-spreaders are hacking into vulnerable WordPress-powered sites in order to drive traffic towards pages loaded with exploits.…