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A panel convened at SC Congress Amsterdam's session on preventing cyber-crime. They agreed that we need to consider the threat, our response and how we might become equally and better organised than our opponents.

Beware of fake mystery shopper scams, a new McAfee Labs consumer alert warned.

Some 26 nations and more than 550 computer experts are engaged in the worlds biggest 'live fire' international cyber-defence exercise - Locked Shields.

A variant of the POS malware family known as NewPosThings, called Multigrain, has introduced a twist into its repertoire—exfiltrating stolen payment card data from POS systems via the Domain Name System (DNS).

Google researchers partnered with a research team from the University of California, Berkeley to analyze the infection and potential remediation of more than 760,000 websites during an 11-month period.

Web hosting provider Invision Power Services (IPS) was saved from a software compromise that could have potentially damaged its clients after researchers gathered intelligence on a cybercriminal operation taking place on the dark web.

A malicious insider was handed a nine-year prison sentence and a $1.7 million fine for hacking into the computer system of his former employer Locke Lord.

A deeper probe into the JBoss server vulnerabilities linked to recent Samsam ransomware attacks has uncovered 3.2 million unpatched machines that are potentially susceptible to this attack vector.