Security

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, April 17

Cyber extortion: A growth industry

The traditional philosophy of never negotiating with extortionists has had to adapt to the realities of cybercrime – if you don’t pay, your data may be lost forever

Getting workers involved in cyber security: 8 best practices

IT might be accountable for cyber security, but every worker needs to be responsible for protecting the organization's computing resources

IBM unbolts vast threat database to fight cybercrimes

IBM opens up its threat data as part of new security intelligence sharing platform

Forever 21 denies pirating Adobe software, strikes back

Data breach notification bill could weaken consumer protections

Sophos takes rare step of citing Microsoft flaw as a must-fix

Any software tapping into the Microsoft HTTP stack could be used to create a network worm

Antivirus competitors join arms to take down a huge botnet

Microsoft, Trend Micro, and Kaspersky Labs banded together to take down the SIMDA botnet, which is believed to have infected more than 700,000 machines.

New malware program Punkey targets point-of-sale systems