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Emerging global cyberlaw trends in 2014
January 5th, 2015
2014 was the year when dark web started emerging, primarily due to the iCloud hacking of celebrities’ pictures Globally, the year 2014 was a year that was dedicated to cybercrimes and hacking. In fact, cybercrime as a phenomenon loomed ...
PayPal: Cyber fraud offences
January 3rd, 2015
A 22-year old man connected with the notorious Lizard Squad group of hackers has been arrested by Thames Valley police on suspicion of a series of PayPal-related fraud offences. The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit says the arrest ...
Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identified
December 23rd, 2014
The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted if the bank had installed a simple security fix to an overlooked server in its vast ...
Update on Financial Markets and Cybercrime
December 22nd, 2014
Russian criminals hack in to bank networks to steal $18 million A group of Russian cybercriminals which specialises in gaining access to the internal payments networks of banks has stolen more than $18 million over the past six months. ...
Sony CEO Cleared Scenes in Film on North Korea, E-Mails Show
December 10th, 2014
Sony Corp. (SNE) Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai personally approved scenes in “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen film that angered North Korea and may have prompted a cyber attack on the company’s Hollywood film studio, according to e-mails made ...
Sony Pictures struggles to recover eight days after cyber attack
December 3rd, 2014
Eight days after a massive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hollywood studio was still struggling to restore some systems on Tuesday evening as investigators combed for evidence to identify the culprit. Some employees at the Sony Corp ...
Sony Pictures hires Mandiant to help clean up after cyber attack
December 1st, 2014
Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics unit to clean up a massive cyber attack that knocked out the studio’s computer network nearly a week ago, three people with knowledge of the matter said yesterday Computer systems ...
Bolster your digital defences
November 25th, 2014
Cyber criminals have the financial services sector firmly in their sights, but there is much that organisations and employees can do to protect themselves from the threat Cyber crime is on the rise, and the financial services sector is ...
Home Depot profit beats estimates as U.S. job market improves
November 18th, 2014
Home Depot Inc, the world’s No.1 home improvement chain, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as an improving job market encouraged Americans to spend more on renovations. The company reaffirmed its 2014 sales growth forecast of about 4.8 percent and ...
Malicious Software Campaign Targets Apple Users in China
November 6th, 2014
Researchers at a Silicon Valley security company said on Wednesday that they had found a new manner in which hackers can infect Apple products. The company, Palo Alto Networks, reported that it had uncovered a malware campaign called WireLurker targeting Apple ...
