International cyber crime fighters join forces
New alliance of cyber crime fighters includes police, governments, businesses and vendors
Business leaders, government officials, law enforcers and security vendors have set up an international cyber crime-fighting group that aims to increase co-operations across borders. The International...
Threats and Risks
Massive ticket fraud scheme targeting Groupon and Ticketmaster uncovered with discovery of unsecured database
Unsecured database containing 17 million email addresses was found to be part of fraud targeting Groupon, Ticketmaster and other online ticket vendors
Warning over Win32/StealthFalcon malware that uses Windows update system to steal data
The BITS system is used by Microsoft to send Windows updates to its users and is generally ignored by firewalls
Critical vulnerabilities in Telestar IoT radio devices could enable attackers to remotely capture systems
Hackers can also transmit audio as commands and force a play stream using the security bugs
Apple criticises Google for creating 'false impression' about the scale of iPhone hack
Apple claims that the attack on iPhones was not "a broad-based exploit of iPhones" as described by Google Project Zero
Google Project Zero discovers malicious websites that have been hacking iPhones for at least two years
Successful attacks enabled hackers to access passwords, messages and photos from iPhones and iPads