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For people who have had their personal identification stolen, it could also help prevent cybercriminals from using that information. (Photo: Pixabay)

Your smartphone may help fight cybercrime

The retailer can detect a forgery because the PRNU of the attackers camera will alter the PRNU component of the photograph.

17 Dec 2017 5:50 PM

US-based startup Deep Science is using the same technology to help retail stores detect in real time if an armed robbery is in progress, by identifying guns or masked assailants. Deep Science has pilot projects with US retailers, enabling automatic alerts in the case of robberies, fire or other threats.

Privacy fears over artificial intelligence as crimestopper

The program is part of a growing trend to use vision-based AI to thwart crime and improve public safety.

12 Nov 2017 8:04 PM

The malicious attachments to the emails are quite sophisticated. Once the victim opens them, it takes just one click to initiate a series of downloads and finally execute the dropper.

New Russian-speaking hacking group hunts for financial organizations

This is exactly the case with Silence Trojan – which compromises its victim’s infrastructure via spear phishing emails.

03 Nov 2017 1:04 PM

The Gaza Team Cybergang has been attacking government embassies, diplomats and politicians as well as oil and gas organizations and the media in the MENA region on a continuous basis since at least 2012, with new malware samples detected regularly.

Beware! This cybergang upgraded its malicious toolset with Android spyware

The group has been active in the threat landscape for several years, it has upgraded its arsenal in 2017 with new malicious tools.

31 Oct 2017 3:50 PM

Researchers discovered that four of the nine apps they investigated allow potential criminals to figure out who’s hiding behind a nickname based on data provided by users themselves. For example, Tinder, Happn, and Bumble let anyone see a user’s specified place of work or study.

Love in the time of Cybersecurity: Are online dating apps safe?

The most popular mobile online dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Mamba, Happn, Paktor), are identified as the main threats for users.

30 Oct 2017 2:52 PM

The objective of the attackers is to compromise organizational networks with malicious emails and tainted websites to obtain credentials for accessing computer networks of their targets, the report said.

US warns public about attacks on energy, industrial firms

The agencies warned that hackers had succeeded in compromising some targeted networks, but did not identify specific victims.

23 Oct 2017 12:55 PM

Technological advancement has driven most services to route the digital way in order to engage and access a wider base of consumers across various geographies.

Cyber-attacks are going beyond Financial Services and Banking Sectors

Digitisation has not only revolutionised business models but also resulted in crime probing slowly into the cyber world.

18 Oct 2017 1:19 PM

An alert from the US Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Response Team on Monday said the flaw could be used within range of Wi-Fi using the WPA2 protocol to hijack private communications.

Researchers uncover flaw that makes Wi-Fi vulnerable to hacks

CERT New Zealand and CERT India asked users to apply security updates.

17 Oct 2017 10:08 AM

In various seminars conducted by the police as part of its corporate social responsibility, it has asked the younger lot to make an effort to make older citizens understand the pros and cons of online and cashless transactions.

Help elderly fight cyber fraud: Police tells youth

Ask youngsters to help them with online transactions.

17 Oct 2017 2:06 AM

Symantec’s decision highlights a growing tension for US technology companies that must weigh their role as protectors of US cybersecurity as they pursue business with some of Washington’s adversaries, including Russia and China, according to security experts.

Symantec CEO says source code reviews pose unacceptable risk

Tech companies have been under increasing pressure to allow the Russian government to examine source code.

11 Oct 2017 11:44 AM

The researchers said most voting machines examined included at least some foreign-manufactured parts, raising the possibility that malware could be introduced even before the devices are delivered.

Hacking the election: security flaws need fixing, researchers say

A report with detailed findings from a July hacker conference which demonstrated how voting machines could be manipulated.

11 Oct 2017 11:20 AM

Prime Minister Theresa May and her ministers have been critical of firms like Twitter, Facebook, and Google, repeatedly calling on them to do more to stop the spread of extremist content online and help victims of abuse.

UK proposes internet firm levy with web safety plan

Strategy is designed to tackle bullying, abuse and other risks for children and vulnerable users.

11 Oct 2017 9:52 AM

A report by University of California researchers said the efforts to disrupt the 2016 US election should serve as warning about the impact of a cyber-attack on the games.

Researchers warn of cyber risks for Olympic Games

Hackers could do damage by infiltrating stadium or scoring systems, or by releasing sensitive data on athletes.

11 Oct 2017 9:34 AM

Eight out of 10 Indians surveyed have encountered some form of online harassment.

Study reveals widespread online harassment in India

The level of online harassment in India was extremely concerning.

09 Oct 2017 8:41 AM

Kaspersky Lab believes that such attacks are likely to be implemented mainly by nation-state backed groups, targeting foreign or less competent actors. It is important that IT security researchers learn how to spot and interpret the signs of these attacks, so that they can present their intelligence in context.

Here's how nation-state backed threat actors steal from each other

Accurate threat intelligence relies on identifying the patterns and tools that signpost a particular threat actor.

06 Oct 2017 10:36 AM

Tensions are already high in Washington over US allegations of a surge in hacking of American targets by Russians, including the targeting of state election agencies and the hacking of Democratic Party computers in a bid to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election in favour of Republican Donald Trump.

Russian hackers stole US cyber secrets from NSA: reports

The hack would mark the latest in a series of breaches of classified data from the secretive intelligence agency.

06 Oct 2017 8:06 AM

During the first six month of the year, Kaspersky Lab products blocked attack attempts on 37.6 per cent of several tens of thousands of ICS computers protected of them globally.

Every third ICS computer under attack was in manufacturing companies

The peak of attackers’ activity was registered in March, after which the proportion of computers attacked gradually declined in April-June.

04 Oct 2017 11:22 AM

In order to protect their IT infrastructure from attacks like Microcin, Kaspersky Lab experts advise organizations to use security tools that allow the detection of malicious operations, rather than malicious software.

How threat actors conduct complicated attacks at the lowest cost

It is becoming more and more common for threat actors to not use expensive attack techniques, such as zero-day vulnerabilities

29 Sep 2017 9:03 AM

This year’s study reveals promising developments in the importance being placed on IT security. Businesses globally are starting to view it as a strategic investment and the share of IT budgets that is being spent on IT security is growing, reaching almost a quarter (23%) of IT budgets in large corporations. This pattern is consistent across businesses of all sizes, including very small businesses where resources are usually in short supply.

Third party cybersecurity failures cost businesses the most

According to the report: the most costly cybersecurity breaches for businesses of all sizes result from the failures of third parties.

22 Sep 2017 1:41 PM

The breach on March 10 came two days after security researchers at Cisco Systems warned of a flaw in an open-source software package called Apache Struts.

Hackers were snooping inside Equifax as of march

The attackers then essentially cased the Equifax system for several weeks, the Journal reported.

21 Sep 2017 10:16 AM

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