Cybercrime News
Thwarted by security at enterprises, cyber criminals target SMBs
Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and...
Kaspersky denies it's working with Apple on Mac security
Company is conducting an 'in-depth analysis of Mac OS X vulnerabilities,' but not at the request of Apple, CTO says
Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy
Facebook said on Friday that it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but...
Training workers to be cyber safe
Cyber thieves and scam artists have become more sophisticated in their means to steal login credentials and gain access to valuable information or...
How to Control Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Facebook's privacy settings are confusing by design, often hiding similar settings in totally different menus and defaulting to unnerving levels...
Megaupload files motion to delay civil suit
Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense...
California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords
The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or...
U.S. seeking to build international unity around cyberdefense for industrial control systems
In the interests of thwarting cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as energy, water and manufacturing, the Department of Homeland Security...
New York City agency pushes plan to prevent cyberattacks on elevators, boilers
Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems...
APT attackers are increasingly using booby-trapped RTF documents, experts say
Booby-trapped RTF documents are one of the most common types of malicious Microsoft Office files that are used to infect computers with advanced...
Police-themed ransomware starts targeting US and Canadian users
A ransomware application that locks computers and asks their owners to pay fines for allegedly violating several laws through their online activity...
Security of industrial control systems questioned at DHS conference
Operators of America's vital power, water and manufacturing facilities use industrial control systems (ICS) to manage them, and the security of these...
Twitter resists subpoena to release user's data without warrant
Twitter is contesting a court order requiring it to turn over private data on a user charged with disorderly conduct during the Occupy Wall Street...
Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint
Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of users'...
Myspace settles FTC privacy complaint
Social networking site Myspace has agreed to settle charges from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it misrepresented its protection of...
Does 'stand your cyberground' stand a chance?
Internet security experts say the concept has merit, but major legal and ethical problems still need to be sorted out
Windows 8 privacy worry overblown, says Microsoft analyst
It sounds like a privacy hole big enough for a truckload of your personal information to be leaked to the world, but experts say a recently disclosed...
Fewer than half of Facebook and Google users understood the sites' privacy policies
Most users of Facebook and Google had fundamental gaps in understanding, even after reading privacy policies, about how the websites handled their...
Is Facebook use in the enterprise too risky to allow?
It is not news that Facebook is less than aggressive about protecting the personal privacy of its 900 million users. But even relatively savvy users...
IT Budgets, Cybersecurity Top Federal CIO Concerns
New survey from TechAmerica reveals the mounting pressure facing agency CIOs to do more with less, as budget cuts imperil new initiatives such as...
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