Companies rely on passwords as the first line of defense to protect financial information. But as hackers have gotten better at cracking passwords, businesses haven’t kept up.
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There seems to be an epidemic of hacking iTunes accounts, especially for the site’s customers who pay for their purchases using PayPal.
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Tags: banking, credit cards, cybercrime, hacked, iTunes, linked, PayPal, scam
LAS VEGAS — As smartphones become more common, so do viruses that infect them. Take this recent attack that gives criminals an easy way to steal from mobile users.
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Tags: Black Hat, malware, Mikko Hypponen, phone calls, smartphones
IT may hold the keys to the kingdom in the business environment these days, but the folks who are most likely to pick the lock are in another department altogether:
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Tags: Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, company, employee, report, steal
There’s good news and bad news for the Brazilian banker whose computer drives may hold valuable evidence in the case against him: The prosecutors who are trying to get at the encrypted data can’t crack it — even with the help of the FBI.
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Tags: banker, Brazilian, Daniel Dantas, encryption, FBI, hack, TrueCrypt
You’d think a 27-character password would be secure, but the recent arrest of some suspected Russian spies is a cautionary tale in security operations.
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Tags: espionage, file transfer, password, ring, Russians
The United States leapfrogged in the annual digital economy rankings this year, moving up from No. 5 to the No. 3 spot — no small accomplishment given the lousy economy, with its stagnating employment and cautious capital investments.
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The “Cloud” has started to look a lot more inviting in recent months, but before signing up to use one of these services, there are some key pieces of information you’ll want to gather.
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Tags: cloud computing, gather, information, questions, selection, vendors
It’s no secret that the Internet carries vital business and government information around the globe. Anybody with the power to turn off that vast and far-reaching network would be pretty powerful indeed, and Congress may give the president that power.
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Tags: congress, cybersecurity, kill switch, law, legislation, obama
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