Authorities charged the individuals, all residing in California, with stealing high sums of cash from Citibank ATMs at various casinos.
One of the chief aims of the new program will be to determine which adversaries are behind cyber attacks against businesses and critical infrastructure.
During a week of highly publicized website issues affecting Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase customers, a financial services industry body raised the cyber threat level in a warning to institutions.
Lancope has appointed Tom Cross as director of security research, Wells Fargo & Co. has named Rich Baich CISO, and other personnel announcements and corporate happenings.
August 28, 2012
HIPAA violations are becoming more common around the nation. To find the source of the problem you have to "follow the money."
The criminals behind the Reveton malware are using fake FBI scare tactics to entice victims.
August 01, 2012
Many view information sharing as an elusive quest, hampered by various roadblocks. But Georgia Tech researchers want to tear down these hurdles with a new threat intelligence system known as Titan.
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, DNSChanger, Stratfor, global cyber crime ring...and other breaking news.
July 10, 2012
An individual has no intrinsic, inalienable right to leave his own system unprotected if by doing so he puts others at risk.
July 06, 2012
The FTC has made major moves this year in its fight against cyber crime, and if enterprises and organizations aren't careful, they may be facing a team of the agency's investigators.
The FBI's cyber division has a new assistant director, Joseph Demarest, who formerly served as assistant director for international operations.
May 18, 2012
One of the masterminds behind the infamous "Operation Phish Phry" was sentenced by a district judge to five years in prison for her part in the international ring.
A Russian national is in custody in Newark, N.J., facing charges of hacking into the web accounts of several brokerages to initiate sham stock trades that allegedly netted $1 million.
A federal judge has approved a request to extend the use of DNS servers, giving enterprises more time to remove the insidious DNSChanger trojan.
While anti-malware strategies and new technology may stump cyber criminals, it's public collaboration they should fear.
News briefs: The latest from the PCI Security Standards Council, Google, Anonymous, Facebook and others...
Hackvistim is not just resulting in high-profile breaches and data loss, it's also shedding light on the neglect many organizations are showing security.
A message purportedly sent from the FBI Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division is making its way to inboxes, threatening recipients that they will be arrested if they do not reply back.
Security professionals must establish relationships with their local FBI agents, and relevant information-sharing bodies, as well as have a plan of action before being hit with a breach.
Microsoft has prevailed in its civil case against the operators of the Rustock botnet, which in its heyday controlled a network of more than a million computers.
A security and privacy expert explains how cracking voicemails takes little skill.
No anti-virus product worth its salt uses the "one malicious program, one signature" model today.
Good viruses and trojans? Legal malware? Does (or should) AV detect the FBI's spyware?
Our G-men and G-women are going after the bad guys.
