Following Yahoo’s September announcement of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would allow users to automatically redirect incoming emails sent to their Yahoo address to …
A new report titled “Cyber security (Network Security, Cloud Security, Wireless Security and Others) Market, By Solution (Identity And Access Management (IAM), Encryption, Risk And Compliance Management, Data Loss Prevention, Antivirus And Antimalware, Firewall And Others), By Vertical (Aerospace, Government, Financial Services, Telecommunication, Healthcare And Others): Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Segment, …
Krebbs quotes a RiskAnalytics official estimates there are over 2,000 infected endpoints, mostly in Europe, behind the botnet. It feels, he said, “like a black market version of Amazon Web Services.” That official says the malware that runs the botnet assigns infected hosts different roles — for example, more powerful systems might be used as …
At least 42,000 Irish e-mails with “.ie” domains are included in a massive data breach that has seen both logins and passwords traded amongst criminals in Russia. The accounts are part of an enormous hack that includes the credentials of 272.3 million email accounts across the world. The breach was uncovered by …
On 28 April 2016 Europol’s Cybercrime Centre (EC3) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the online security company F-Secure Corporation at Europol’s headquarters in The Hague. F-Secure has 20 country offices and a presence in more than 100 countries, with Security Lab operations in Helsinki, Finland and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Through more than …
IID, the source for clear cyberthreat intelligence, today announced its predictions for 2017 and beyond. the firm predicts that by the end of 2017, botnet operators seeking new frontiers will execute a full-scale invasion of compromised Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as wearables and connected home products. A botnet is a collective of …
The economic difference between those best and worst forecasts could be as high as $120 trillion worldwide over the next 15 years, according to a new report from the Atlantic Council think-tank and Zurich Insurance. They teamed up with the Pardee Center for International Futures at the University of Denver to determine if the global …
The Bitcoin community has been angrily pressing for details on what the Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has described as a massive hacker attack that stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of its users’ bitcoins and left the company bankrupt. Mt. Gox’s staff isn’t talking. So another group of hackers say they’ve broken into the …
Despite reports over the weekend claiming that Dropbox was hacked, the company has today released a post-mortem of its downtime, with the blame falling onto its update and database infrastructure. The company said that the weekend’s outage was due to a bug within an update script reinstalling a number of machines containing production traffic for …
On September 12, Peru’s Congress approved [es] the IT Crimes Act, one that has generated serious questions since the release of its Pre Dictamen [es]. This has been based not only on the assumption that a good part of the text was copied from various sources, but also because it constitutes a likely threat to privacy and freedom …