A succession of errors - at the programme code development level and human error when inputting the data - are reported to have resulted in a New Zealand couple being credited with NZ$10 million (£3.9 million) rather than a much smaller sum as the proceeds of a bank credit line.
McAfee will acquire Solidcore Systems, a whitelisting specialist, in a US$33m deal which will allow McAfee to integrate Solidcore's technology into its blacklisting malware detection and prevention products, as well as to bolster its high-end corporate IT security offerings.
A modified attack that alters Google searches is taking the web by storm according to security researchers, who have identified more malware domains being used in the attack.
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Gateshead College in the UK has opened a digital forensics lab for the training of information security staff to combat cybercrime such as digital fraud.
Methodman, a so-called 'grey hat' hacker specialising in discovering cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, claims to have uncovered a number of XSS security flaws in various Paypal registration pages.
Worldwide software piracy is on the rise, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance and analyst firm IDC.
A two-factor authentication system - complete with keypad and display - has been successfully integrated into a plastic payment card by Melbourne-based EMUE and is being trialled by MBNA in the UK
With the economic downturn, cloud computing is seen as a way to improve operational efficiency, reduce headcounts and help with the bottom line, but according to the report from Massachusetts-based Forrester Research on cloud computing, organisations should not jump on the ‘cloud wagon’ before consi...
The importance of Estonia, one of the most Internet-connected and e-trading nations on earth, has ramped up a notch or two with the FBI, which has announced plans to station a cybercrime expert and his/her team in the country later this year.
The recent outbreak of swine flu has thrown up a number of topics related to information security ranging from secure sharing of data between health professionals, to spam / phishing and issues around remote working.
Danny Bradbury rounds up the most important news in the security space from the last week.
Heartland Payment Systems has revealed that it lost US$12.6m as a result of its 2008 data breach, in the same week that it finally regained official Payment Card Industry Data Security standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.
Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security.
The fourth annual Global Security Challenge Competition where security entrepreneurs compete for up to US$500 000 in cash grants, is open for entries until 15 June 2009.
Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
After several years of offering its products via a few specialist systems integrators in the UK, California's Palo Alto Networks has established a formal presence in the country.
Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.
It's not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achieved this.