Norway’s national telecoms provider Telenor has been hit by a major case of industrial espionage with attackers stealing a sizable cache of files and emails from unnamed executives, local media have reported.
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With data breaches now a mainstream business issue, a growing number of US firms are covering their risk by purchasing cyber-insurance, figures from broker Marsh USA have suggested.
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A gang of fraudsters were able to turn an Australian gambling casino’s sophisticated surveillance system against it as they perpetrated an extraordinary of $33 million AUD (£22 million) poker fraud, it has been reported.
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The number of security flaws affecting Windows users rose five percent last year and the culprits are overwhelmingly non-Microsoft programs, the latest study from information provider Secunia has found.
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Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has become the latest well-known figure to have a social media account hijacked by pranksters using the takeover to spout embarrassingly profane opinions.
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Japanese researchers have come up with an ingenious solution to the perennial security problem of shoulder surfing and screen capture malware – make it impossible for co-workers or screen scrapers to see what has been entered by filling the screen with dummy mouse cursors.
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A chemist with no formal security training has become the latest self-taught high achiever to win the UK Cyber Security Challenge, fending off thousands of rivals in a series of competitions run over the last year.
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With GPS jamming a growing worry for UK shipping, engineers have successfully demonstrated the first system that can counter the navigational menace by switching seamlessly to a new type of shore-based ‘eLoran’ system.
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It’s the email every Internet business dreads having to compose to its customers but last weekend Evernote became only the latest of a long list of big brands that found itself reluctantly hitting the ‘send’ button.
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The tiny Raspberry Pi Foundation website and forum has been hit by two short but nasty DDoS attacks in the last week, the second attack flurry that has targeted the organisation since last summer, staff have confirmed.
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US web usage for Google’s Chrome OS has risen 700 percent since last summer but that still pegs the revolutionary cloud OS on less than 0.1 percent of traffic, according to ad network Chitika
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UK fraud reached an all-time high in 2012 with the main culprit being an apparently unstoppable boom in identity fraud, the latest report from the Fraud Prevention Service CIFAS has reported.
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The MiniDuke malware publicised last week and thought to be linked to state-backed espionage has been circulating for nearly two years, a new analysis by security firm Bitdefender has discovered.
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One of the UK’s most skilled and successful convicted cybercriminals was allegedly able to hack into his prison’s mainframe after being allowed to take an IT course, an industrial tribunal hearing has heard.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer came up with her controversial and hugely unfashionable policy of outlawing home working after doing something almost unheard of for a US CEO – she checked the VPN logs to see whether anyone was slacking.
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UK Internet registry Nominet has temporarily halted plans to create a shorter ‘.uk’ domain name as an alternative to the current ‘.co.uk’ in the face of disagreement about the benefits and cost.
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Chinese military websites experienced a barrage of hacking probes originating in the US during 2012, the Chinese military has said in a statement designed to remind the world that it can also be a victim of cyberattacks.
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Kaspersky Lab and Hungarian cyber-hunters CrySys have discovered another apparent state-sponsored spy program the firms believe has successfully compromised systems inside at least 23 different governments, some as recently as a week ago.
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The Stuxnet cyber-weapon discovered slamming into Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in the summer of 2010 was probably in development for up to five years before that date, a new analysis by Symantec has suggested.
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The effectiveness of antivirus protection has never been under greater scrutiny but McAfee and Check Point believe they have found a new story to counter some of the the doubt – sandboxing.
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