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DDoS attacks against banks surge, sparking ho-hum response
Banks have always been a favorite target of hacks. For whatever reason, the number of distributed denial of service attacks against banks has surged recently, according to one estimate.
Symantec sting operation fails
There’s long been a lot of fear and half truths when it comes to hackers trying to extort money from companies.
Banks cooperate to beat online thieves
There are times when it behooves the banking industry to work together. The need to beat back the rising sophistication of hackers seems to present just such an opportunity. Bank Technology News ...
Energy infrastructure at risk of APT attack
The rise of APTs and the Stuxnet worm has created a lot of anxiety about infrastructure vulnerability in the United States. The angst spiked even higher recently when a water plant in Illinois was
Is Wall Street ready for financial terrorism?
It's fair to say that banks are under constant attack from cyber criminals. The traditional foes have ranged from mere phishers to organized rings with larger ambitions. Regulators have not been
Hackers might target printers
The cyber fraud landscape got a lot more complex this year as the bad guys continued to evolve their tactics. They stepped up their activity in several areas, moving from traditional phishing to a
Robin Hood hackers target banks
A hacker group has once again gone on the offensive against commercial banks, launching a campaign to defraud banks and use the proceeds to benefit "the 99 percent." The group calls its efforts
Cyber attackers eye infrastructure
The idea of industrial operating systems being compromised by a new breed of cyber attack has been topical all year thanks to the rise of Stuxnet. Going forward, security experts will have to do more
Cyber criminals engage in hacker wars
The hacking community is a diverse lot, and big conflicts have been known to erupt with fury. Perhaps the most famous was the so-called Great Hacker War in the early 1990s, which featured the Masters
Bank of America's web site a vexing problem
Bank of America's main talking point when it comes to its troubling web site issues has been that it is not--repeat, not--the victim of a malware or hacking incident. While some sporadic outages
