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NatWest has topped the list of most popular company names used by fraudsters when targeting the personal finance industry.
For the fifth consecutive month, UK banks are the second most targeted worldwide by online fraudsters, new figures show. Power LogOn offers a somewhat different take to identity management. In the IT industry, when a user is given a secure password it is usually something other than their dog’s name or favourite football team. Google's hosted applications are always a favourite for spammers, and now Google Sites, a free hosting service, is moving to centre stage. Brazilian hackers now more technically sophisticated than Russians, "fraud as a service" model emerges. Malware purveyors are embracing the upcoming Olympic games wholeheartedly. Just days after reports of the possible demise of Storm, the worm has again set off security alarm bells. There are plenty of tools around to make infosec professionals' life easier. But how do you find the right ones? Barry Mansfield reports. The Qualys CEO firmly believes the internet has taken over from software -which is why Bill Gates is in trouble. Philippe Courtot, without any obvious irony, describes himself as a "child of the internet". Unusual for a chief executive but, as this interview progresses, it becomes clear that the 61-year-old sees himself as a most unusual CEO. He is referring to his time spent at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, where he witnessed the birth of the web under the aegis of Tim Berners-Lee.
Microsoft on Tuesday released 11 patches fixing 17 vulnerabilities - six of them "critical" - but failed to patch an exploited flaw in Microsoft Excel revealed last month. Three men pleaded guilty this week in New York to running get-rich-quick spam schemes - including a scam where one of the men claimed to have terminal throat cancer - targeting email users. MessageLab's CEO and co-founder are determined to get a bigger slice of the American pie. Paul Fisher meets two men on a mission. October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms. Nothing is sacred to spammers as they attempt to bait people with the Simpsons Movie. The popularity of online streaming videos, social-networking and shopping sites have created new attack vectors for hackers to spread malicious code that could wreak havoc on company networks. Company touts new security features, but experts question effectiveness. Kaspersky Lab finds password security not good enough. Over the last several years, many well-known organisations have faced the consequences of highly publicised data breaches. These breaches directly impact an organisation's most valuable asset - their customers. Just like the detectives do on weekly television crime dramas, put yourself in the mind of the bad guy. Pretend that you're the criminal who brokers stolen personal information with organised crime syndicates overseas. Put yourself behind the eyes of the malicious hacker who plans to breach merchant networks and compromise wholesale volumes of consumer payment card information, the kind of information that can be bartered within the internet's dark underbelly. Online attackers are increasingly using zero-day flaws and targeting a wider array of applications, according to the annual Top 20 Security Attack Targets report from the Sans Institute.