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They say ("they" being "Mac McMillan of CynergisTek Inc.") that cyber-crime is now the most lucrative form of crime, surpassing even illegal drug sales. Hackers go after large enterprises' networks, and sometimes hold those networks hostage, promising to take companies like E-Bay or Amazon.com of...

Under the pretence of recycling, NHS computers have been dumped in Ghana, where their hard drives are mined of your confidential data by criminal gangs... while children die melting down the highly toxic empty shells. We arrive shortly after the fight. The boy had grovelled in the dirt for mercy,...

Defcon A well-known researcher specializing in website security has strongly criticized safety on Google, arguing the world's biggest search engine needlessly puts its millions of users at risk. "Google is and will be and always has been vulnerable," Robert Hansen, CEO of secTheory, told a standi...

Symantec  (Norton) has observed a new fraud attack targeting Microsoft POP3 users. The email claims that recipients have a POP3 setting problem and need to click on the URL in the email to confirm the account data. Headers from the scam email were: From: “Microsoft” The email shows a warning but ...