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Artificial intelligence to join phishing fight in 2009
News B is for Botnets Artificial intelligence could soon be used in the battle against phishing fraud emails. From next year, security researchers hope to begin rolling out a system that uses machine learning... [13 Oct 2008]
UK crime fighters grapple with iPhone wipe threat
News B is for Botnets The head of the Serious Fraud Office digital forensics unit Keith Foggon cautioned that the ability to remotely wipe the iPhone and other smart phones used by enterprises could be... [02 Sep 2008]
Virtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News B is for Botnets Scammers also are increasingly attracted to virtual worlds, where they have numerous ways of trying to steal private data for fraud. The in-game economies of virtual worlds are being... [28 Aug 2008]
Has Barclays stamped out fraud with PINsentry?
News B is for Botnets The UK's third-largest bank said this week that it has distributed the card reader, made by Amsterdam-based Gemalto, to more than one million customers, and that none have been hit by... [18 Jul 2008]
PC security warning for banking online
News B is for Botnets The online banking section of the latest Banking Code from the British Bankers Association suggests banks may not always be liable when online banking fraud takes place. Victims of... [16 Jun 2008]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Paper The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity... [13 Jun 2008]
Cotton Traders' site hacked: Thousands of details stolen
News B is for Botnets Customers who have become a victim of fraud following the attack are being asked to contact their credit card provider. Hackers breached the company website in January and stole... [11 Jun 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News B is for Botnets Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. Graham Yellowley, director of... [17 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment It will be botnets. The marketing of cyber crime in general and botnets in particular is a growing threat. We are concerned we do see that because botnets are by nature a force... [15 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News B is for Botnets Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report reveals that, for the second half... [09 Apr 2008]
Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
News B is for Botnets Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security... [18 Mar 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News B is for Botnets Last June eBay revealed details of a three-year long campaign to curb online fraud by criminals in Romania - leading to several hundred arrests. Most of Romania's law enforcement efforts... [10 Mar 2008]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News B is for Botnets Describing the government policy towards e-crime as showing a "lack of clear leadership", shadow home secretary David Davis revealed Tory plans to create a police national cyber crime unit, a minister... [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with the more common, asymmetric mass attacks launched through spam, phishing, botnets, denial of service and all manner of other exploits. [27 Feb 2008]
UK banks targeted by phishing attacks
News Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. The attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet, according to a report from security... [15 Feb 2008]
