The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence team a vital aspect revealed in its 2017 Threat Intelligence Index that, spam levels increased, launching innumerable fresh malware-laced attachments consisting of ransomware and banking Trojans. Networkworld.com posted this, March 13, 2017. Newer gTLDs, such as .click .top and .xyz, are now accounting for 5, 4 and 3 percent of …
Cyber criminals in Ireland are said to be targeting email accounts of Irish solicitors in an attempt to steal tens of thousands of euros from unsuspecting home buyers. The Law Society confirmed that a number of Irish-based legal firms have been subjected to this kind of assault named ‘Friday Afternoon Fraud.’ This kind of fraud …
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 …
.COM registrations are at an all-time high. Yet the fact remains: Overall, .COM domains feature in UDRPs less and less. That wasn’t the headline of WIPO’s March article. Instead, their press release bore the provocative title, “Cybersquatting Cases Up in 2015, Driven by New gTLDs”. WIPO – for those just joining the party – stands for the World Intellectual Property Organization. …
LONDON, May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ There remains considerable activity and investment in Africa’s national and international broadband infrastructure. Many countries have a range of government programs in place aimed at increasing bandwidth availability, and at extending networks deeper into non-urban areas. Submarine cables now provide 20-times more international bandwidth than was the case in 2010: …
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 …
Cyberattacks in Hong Kong are expected to rise, according to security experts who have identified at least seven state-linked hacker groups in mainland China that have been targeting organisations in the city since 2014. Bryce Boland, the chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at cybersecurity company FireEye, said on Thursday that cyberattacks by the hacker …
This year, cybersecurity will be the main issue vexing global business, firms say, and it will become more critically important as the internet of things takes off and our world becomes ever more mobile and connected. Lawyers, accountants, digital agencies, research analysts, telecoms and tech firms all gave Technology of Business their views on what …
The domain name space is getting larger with the addition of hundreds of new generic top-level domains like .club, .xyz and .guru, and security firm Raytheon says they are a boon for hackers, cyber thieves and online scam artists. ICANN, which is tasked with the management of the domain name root and which is behind …
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 …