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Online Gamers Risk Credit Card Fraud

The Sony Corporation has been providing consumers with stellar electronics since before the introduction of the Walkman. The past six months have been harsher for Sony, with attacks by hacktivists and numerous breaches of clients’ data. Many recent breaches involved usernames, passwords, email addresses, and in some cases, credit card numbers. Each compromised data point […]

UN Cybersecurity Arm Endorses the World’s First International Team Ethical Hacking Championships

Aug 4, 2011 | ALBUQUERQUE, NM – The cybersecurity executing arm of the United Nations has endorsed the Global CyberLympics, a new initiative by the EC-Council to foster stronger international cooperation on information security issues and to improve cybersecurity training and awareness in developing nations and third world countries. Created by EC-Council, the Global CyberLympics […]

Who Should Use a VPN?

In the modern world online security is becoming more and more important. The internet is used for all sorts of reasons, potentially putting users at risk. This is where a VPN (virtual private network) comes in. A VPN can protect against security risks and prevent a computer or computer network from being compromised. Examples of […]

DHS Dismisses Anonymous Members as Script Kiddies, But Equates Attacks with APT

Recently, United States (U.S) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a security bulletin on improving the situational awareness among the management and security administrators. The bulletin attempts to provide insights on the background and operations of Anonymous and associated attack groups. DHS refers to Anonymous and related groups such as Lulz Sec as ‘Script Kiddies’, […]

Prankster Plants Fake Survey to Dupe Media and Internet Users

Recently, several reputed news websites including CNN, BBC, and Forbes reported the findings of a survey of over 100,000 people conducted by an organization called AptiQuant. The survey reportedly claimed that users of Internet Explorer (IE) have lower Intelligent Quotient (IQ) compared to users of other web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari and […]