Archivo de la Categoría ‘Cybercrime’
Corporate data is new target of cybercrime
According to a report released by McAfee and defense contractor Science Applications International Corp, Cybercriminals have shifted from targeting individuals’ personal information to the intellectual capital of global corporations. study of more than 1,000 senior IT executives from a wide range of corporations in the United States, U.K., Japan, China, India, Brazil and the Middle East, revealed that intellectual capital often has little to no protection. Moreover, cybercriminals have found that trade secrets, marketing plans and research and development findings is oftentimes worth more money than personal data, such as credit card numbers and bank credentials.
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Cyber cops to save UK £500m over next four years
The government has allocated about £30m to fund the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) until March 2015, to aid in its work leading national investigations into serious online fraud and theft, and improving the ability of local forces to tackle e-crime. Cash will let the 41-strong unit more than double its manpower to about 90 staff and press ahead with plans to pilot regional centres for digital forensics and cybercrime investigations. New cash should allow the unit to meet its target of preventing £504m worth of cybercrime-related damage to the UK economy over the next four years.
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Cyber-Crime Attacks Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point
The cyber-criminals are using commercial crimeware toolkits that are constantly changing. The most popular Trojan is spawning over 70,000 new variants each year. If cyber-criminals have successfully stolen seed codes from RSA, it is possible that they could combine multiple methods of attack to match this stolen data to real users and proceed to impersonate them. Attacks will be mounted on/against users’ computers, not the bank infrastructure. The result: banks would be unable to tell real users from criminals and millions will be lost.
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