Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large …
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UAE urges students to become cyber ambassadors in new initiative
The "Cybersecurity" ambassador initiative was launched to build a secure e-culture as it is considered a competitive initiative to empower Emirati students as cybersecurity ambassadors.1 3241
Cyber crime batters small businesses, says Symantec
Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defences, according to a new report from Symantec. …
Ransomware uses browser history for credibility – report
The authors of police-themed ransomware have started using the browsing histories from infected computers in order to make their scams …
Microsoft, Symantec take down botnet
Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal …
Obama to issue executive order on cyber security
United States President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order on cyber security following his upcoming State of …
Anonymous attacks against Israeli sites continued Friday
Anonymous-led denial of service attacks continued unabated for the second day Friday against Israeli government and corporate websites in retaliation …
VMware: Leaked source code dates to 2004, customers should patch
VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another …
Russian 'cyber-bandits' arrested for Amazon DDoS attacks
A Russian accused of being behind DDoS attacks carried out on Amazon and other US sites in 2008 has been …
Olympics facing threat from cyberattacks, says UK official
A Home Office official has warned once again that with the Olympic Games only weeks away the country faces an …
Flame's Windows Update hack required world-class cryptanalysis, researchers say
The Flame cyber-espionage malware makes use of a previously unknown cryptographic attack variant that required world-class cryptanalysis to develop, experts …