Cybercrime News
Schnucks wants federal court to handle data breach lawsuit
St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnuck Markets has claimed that a potential class action lawsuit filed against it in an Illinois state court over a...
Proposed law would make reprogramming cellphone IDs a crime
Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed...
Researchers warn of increased Zeus malware activity this year
The amount of cybercriminal activity associated with the Zeus family of financial Trojan programs has increased during the past few months, according...
Researchers find unusual malware targeting Tibetan users in cyberespionage operation
Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET discovered a piece of cyberespionage malware targeting Tibetan activists that uses unusual techniques...
U.S. urged to let companies 'hack-back' at IP cyber thieves
U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the...
Researchers find more versions of digitally signed Mac OS X spyware
Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to...
Nation's power grid under constant cyberattack, but Congress lax
Utility companies are making only minimum efforts to protect their facilities from persistent and unrelenting cyberattacks, said a Congressional...
New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal...
Aurora hackers said to have accessed law enforcement targets
Chinese cyber marauders sought more than just information on activists -- they wanted access to FBI, DOJ investigations on spies in the U.S.
Microsoft may be scanning your Skype messages
If you have any expectations about the privacy of your Skype communications, you may want to reassess them.
Digital strongboxes won't solve whistleblower problem for journalists
A system where anonymous leakers are dropping documents into a folder has advantages when government investigators start probing a story's sources,...
Opinion varies on action against Chinese cyberattacks
New cyberespionage attack by People's Liberation Army prompts calls for action such as sanctions, but experts are mixed on best response
Peculiar malware trail raises questions about security firm in India
Security firm Norman, investigating cyber-espionage-related to a Norwegian telecom company, the Pakastani government and others, says a lot of its...
Peculiar malware trail raises questions about security firm in India
Security firm Norman, investigating cyber-espionage-related to a Norwegian telecom company, the Pakistani government and others, says a lot of its...
Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy
Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.
New Mac spyware found on Angolan activist's computer
Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights...
Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the...
How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data
A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the...
Megaupload can appeal evidence ruling in NZ Supreme Court
New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds.
Google allowing Android app vendors to illegally collect user data, lawsuit alleges
Several users of devices running Google's Android operating system have filed an amended version of an earlier lawsuit accusing the company of...
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