Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants.
US charges eight with multi-million-dollar cyber-crime
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multi-million-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts …
Rapid-growing mobile payments market is driving a financial fraud marketplace
The global mobile payments market is predicted to exceed US$1.3 trillion in the coming years, presenting opportunities for cyber-crime gangs …
Centre stage for security
With the world on constant alert for cyber attacks, CIOs and IT decision makers flooded to the Habtoor Grand hotel …
Marketing is driving big data adoption: IDC
IT decision makers are not the only drivers for big data adoption as the marketing department is also playing a …
IT enduring largest disruption to date, says EMC’s Brian Gallagher
The IT industry is in the midst of its largest disruption to date, according to Brian Gallagher, President of EMC’s …
Washington, Seoul collaborate on cyber protection
Recent massive cyber attacks that paralysed computer networks at several South Korean banks and broadcasters, strongly suspected to have been …
Researchers find another piece of POS malware
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards …
South Korean banks, broadcasters hit in cyber attack
Computer networks of banks and some broadcasters in South Korea were hit Wednesday in what is suspected to be a …
Gartner: Application-based DDoS attacks on the rise
According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with …