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Growth in external hacking attempts, DDoS and malware attacks, and internal threats to data are the key security concerns for UK businesses.

Researchers at Securi discover Credit Card Redirection attack technique to hijack credit card data during transactions on e-commerce sites.

The House today narrowly defeated an amendment to a defense spending package that would have repealed authorization for the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of phone-call metadata in the United States.

Turkish security researcher Ibrahim Balic now claims he was behind the attack Apple admitted to in a statement to its developer network last Thursday, July 18, saying that sensitive personal information of some 275,000 members may have been compromised.

There were a few that reported Tango got hacked not so long ago, and even though we cannot comment on this because we received no news on this we can report on Viber being attacked.

If someone hacks your computer he can cause you a lot of headaches. But he generally can’t kill you. But getting your car hacked is another story.

The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of informers among online criminals.

The security community remains in a mixed state of grief and confusion this morning, as word of Barnaby Jack’s passing spreads. Known for his work on embedded devices, from the financial world to the medical one, the 35 year-old hacker was a beloved family member to the InfoSec community.

When I was asked about innovation, the first thing I did was review my research to get an idea of what my peers in the industry were predicting for our parallel IT futures.

When news of comprehensive and potentially unconstitutional surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) first broke some weeks back, by and large, the general public seemed to be hearing about its work for the first time.