Billing for ’services not rendered’
Police have arrested a former marketing exec at anti-virus firm McAfee on suspicion of scammming millions of dollars out of the security software firm.…
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Ill wind blows forecasts off course
Symantec has announced plans to cut its wage bill by 4.5 per cent in a move likely to means hundreds of people will lose their jobs with the security and storage software firm.…
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A single cyber crime group has stolen more than a half million bank, credit and debit card accounts over the past two-and-a-half years using one of the most advanced strains of computer spyware in existence, according to research to be published today. The discovery is among the largest stolen data caches ever recovered. Researchers at RSA’s FraudAction Research Lab unearthed the massive trove of purloined data while tracking the activities of a family of spyware known as the “Sinowal” Trojan, designed to steal data from Microsoft Windows PCs. RSA investigators found more than 270,000 online banking account credentials, as well as roughly 240,000 credit and debit account numbers and associated personal information on Web servers the Sinowal authors were using to set up their attacks. The company says the cache was the bounty collected from computers infected with Sinowal going back to February 2006. “Almost three years is a very,
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