Although it's far from always possible to determine the perpetrators of a denial-of-service attack and bring them to justice, there are plenty of people who have been put behind bars because of this modern-day crime.
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Edward Snowden has been offering advice on operational security to ordinary people, advocating, among other things, two-factor authentication and encryption.
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Car hacking may sound like something out of the latest Die Hard or James Bond film, but it’s newsworthy, real and likely to happen much more regularly in the future. We look at the top facts you need to know about this emerging trend.
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The search for an ideal state of security should be a constant pursuit. Continuous vulnerability assessments are therefore a highly recommended practice.
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Child safety in the 21st century is no longer about so-called real world concerns. In a digital age, parents now need to be aware of the risks that also exist online. Here are a few things to consider.
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The premium email provider FastMail has revealed that a cybercriminal has launched multiple DDoS attacks on its systems and made a ransom demand.
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ESET noticed in late October that users visiting the Ammyy website to download the free version of its remote administrator software were being served a bundle containing not only the legitimate Remote Desktop Software Ammyy Admin, but also an NSIS installer ultimately intended to install the tools used by the Buhtrap gang to spy on and control their victims’ computers.
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The cost of last month’s cyberattack on TalkTalk is likely to top £35 million, the company’s CEO, Dido Harding, has admitted in an interview.
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Comcast resets customer account details after it found out that information was being sold on the dark web.
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One of the biggest concerns parents have about the internet is the sites their children are browsing. Parental control tools can help allay this worry.
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A new study finds that current university students have a mature approach to social media that helps keep them safe from cybercrime.
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CyberInvest is the latest government initiative designed to boost the country’s leadership in cybersecurity.
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This week’s roundup of the past seven days includes a interesting piece on Industrie 4.0, Schrödinger’s antivirus, proposals to weaken encryption and much more.
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Banks in the UK and US will be tested on how capable they are in coordinating a transatlantic response to a cyberattack.
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The question of antivirus software being dead is one that doesn't seem to go away. Why is that? Distinguished ESET researcher Aryeh Goretsky explores.
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The UK government is to put forward proposals that will require organisations to limit the effectiveness of data encryption, arguing it weakens security.
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A US man who posted an advert on Craigslist requesting the services of a cybercriminal has been handed a two-year prison sentence. He wanted fines he owed to be wiped clean.
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Time after time we have experienced revolutions in our societies, in the way we work and thus in the Industry. In the past we have been through several Industrial Revolutions and now it’s seems to be the time for another.
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A Texas university is to research cybersecurity solutions to vulnerabilities in medical devices, boosted by a major grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Welcome to our new weekly round-up, offering you a recap of the biggest stories, opinion pieces and reports from the world of information security from the past seven days.
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