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DigiNotar, the embattled Dutch certificate authority at the center of a global scandal after issuing hundreds of forged digital certificates has filed for voluntary bankruptcy today, according to a press release from parent company VASCO.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters.
It looks as if Anonymous’s latest prank is a damning psychological profile of its own members, allegedly assembled by the FBI.
A new ransomware scam locks down its victims’ computers, attempting to convince them that child pornography has been found therein, and informs users that their machine will be unlocked only after paying a $17 (500 ruble) fine, according to a BitDefender analysis reported by MalwareCity.
For the first time in recent memory, the United States is no longer among the world’s premier spam distributors. In fact, the US isn’t even in the top ten, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab.
A hacker compromised a digital currency forum, bitcointalk.org, stealing email addresses and hashed passwords, reading messages, and, of all things, peppering the site with images Bill Cosby, according to a report from SC Magazine.
Adobe is set to release “critical” security updates on a number of their products on Tuesday as part of their monthly patch update to fix critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Microsoft plans on issuing just five bulletins in the September edition of Patch Tuesday. The patch, set to come out September 14, will address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Server Software.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia.
The yearly cost of cybercrime may have surpassed that brought in by the illegal trades in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined, and could be rapidly approaching the entire value of global drug trafficking, according to a new survey conducted by security firm Symantec.
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