Apr 1, 2014 | Cyber-Crime
In what is being hailed as a ‘landmark’ legal case, a computer scammer in Luton, UK was given a suspended 4 month prison sentence and ordered to pay £5,665 ($9,421) compensation and £13,929 ($23,165) in prosecution costs. Mohammed Khalid Jamil (34) of...
Feb 10, 2014 | Cyber-Crime
Techworld – a small American law firm in North Carolina has lost their entire server full of documents to the CryptoLocker malware. After attempting to pay the ransom, they learned that their efforts to pay were too late. This particular firm fell victim to a...
Feb 3, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Yahoo has announced that an unidentified number of their email accounts have been compromised – which has lead to Yahoo passwords being hacked – they claim that the breach of usernames + passwords came from a third-party database. Speculation is that the...
Jan 26, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
A brand new windows malware has been found which uses PCs and windows operating system to try to infect an Android device as it is plugged into the PC. Researchers at Symantec say this is a turn around, as malware has been seen before which attempts to infect windows...
Jan 15, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
First Target was hacked, then Neiman Marcus – there might still be other retail giants with hacked systems which we don’t know about – and the retail giants’ IT security being compromised so badly is a big shock to the public, who trust these...
Dec 28, 2013 | Cyber-Crime
According to redorbit.com, the malware known as CryptoLocker could hold as many as a quarter of a million PCs to ransom – yes, 250,000 PCs like yours! The malware generally arrives in an email pretending to come from UPS, FedEx, or DHS – the email contains...
