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Google: More than 44K government requests for data

17

Oct

2016

Government requests for Google user data rose slightly in the first half of 2016, the company said on Thursday. Google said that it received 44,943 requests from government entities worldwide in the first six months of the year, up from 40,677 in the previous six month period. The requests affected 76,713 accounts — a decrease […]

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Trade of online gaming currencies fuels cybercrime

12

Oct

2016

Though the majority of gaming companies prohibit the real-money trading of online gaming currencies, the practice is still widespread, and according to Trend Micro researchers, the money that cyber-criminals earn through it is used to mount DoS attacks, spam campaigns, perpetrate identity theft and financial fraud against a variety of business and organizations, and so […]

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Ransomware Raises The Bar Again

11

Oct

2016

Ransomware just got even more real: it’s now the number one attack vector in the financial services sector which traditionally has been considered a model industry for best security practices. Some 55% of financial services firms recently surveyed by SANS report ransomware as the top attack threat, followed by phishing (50%), which previously held the […]

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