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InternetNews August 3, 2010	Most Don't Object to Cyber Spying: Report A survey by a prominent security software firm reveals that most people don't mind if the government uses cyber spying techniques to keep tabs on our enemies.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
InternetNews October 31, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Symantec's Latest: Customized Threat Protection Symantec announced a custom threat analysis and protection service through its Global Services Security Response unit. Managed Threat Analysis, is designed to help companies facing more targeted attacks from criminals looking to steal intellectual property.
InternetNews October 29, 2009	Two-Headed Trojan Targets Online Banks New Trojan uses "two-pronged payload" to swipe log-in information, steal electronic funds.
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2010 Jason King	Google's New Approach to China: A Closer Look at the Attack Heard 'Round the Web Taking a look at the numerous security implications for Google users after last week's cyber attack on Google by China.
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components.
PC World May 23, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	Sizing Up Cybervandalism: Thousands Hit Monthly Researchers find debilitating hacker attacks cross borders to hit big and small targets...
InternetNews January 27, 2011	British Cops Snag 5 Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Scotland Yard authorities announce arrest of five members of "Anonymous" hacking ring charged with marshaling DDoS attacks against firms that cut off payments service to Wikileaks.
CIO August 29, 2011 Robert McMillan	Five Things CIOs Need to Know about Anonymous The hacking collective dubbed Anonymous has unleashed its brand of pesky "operations" on companies from Visa to Sony. Here are the top five things you need to know about their antics.
Wall Street & Technology September 17, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Online Security Attacks Against Financial Institutions Rapidly Increasing Gone are the days of teenagers sitting in their parents' basements trying to hack into a company's computer system just to prove a point. Today, hacking is an organized crime enterprise -- and it is bigger than ever.
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Security Lapses Aplenty Despite Growing Threats A study by Verizon Business's RISK team reveals some disconcerting shortcomings in companies' security.
Bank Systems & Technology September 30, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	At Least One Part of the Economy is Growing: Cybercrime Several studies are showing growth in new techniques designed to trick users and even anti-virus programs to gain access to personal data.
Bank Technology News December 2009 Rebecca Sausner	Out-of-Band Authentication Gets Outfoxed Banks in the United Kingdom are battling fraudsters that have found a way to compromise out-of-band authentication-an approach supported by many fraud experts.
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Robert Lemos	Hacking for Dollars Viruses and worms are so last-decade. Today's PC users have to worry more about online burglary than stolen bandwidth.
InternetNews February 17, 2009 Sean Gallagher	Social Networks a Magnet for Malware Just like the crooks robbed the banks because that's where the money is, malware will go where the people are.
InternetNews February 9, 2010	McAfee Finds Spike In Malware From China A new study by security software vendor McAfee finds a growing number of cyber attacks originating in China and predicts even more malware scams will target fans of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman	Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active.
InternetNews April 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Malware Problem Shows no Sign of Slowing It's easier than ever to write a phishing virus that looks like a Facebook app thanks to virus writer's toolkits, Symantec finds.
InternetNews May 13, 2010	One Gang Responsible For Most Phishing Attacks More than two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009 were the work of one gang, according to an anti-phishing group.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
InternetNews October 27, 2010	Malware Scams Pick Up In Retail Sector Targeted attacks are becoming more and more common as hackers seek out specific individuals or groups to steal proprietary information.
Bank Technology News May 2010 John Adams	Out of Band Finds Its Voice Against Hackers Institutions are ready to embrace new protections that take advantage of SMS, voice biometrics or secure browsers to further authenticate users and transactions.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
InternetNews November 9, 2006	Scammers Hooking Bigger Phish Fewer people fell victim to phishing attacks this year than last, but those who did were scammed for far more dough, Gartner says.
Bank Technology News April 2001 Maria Bruno	Hackers Steal 1 Million Card Numbers Teams of Russian and Ukrainian hackers stole more than 1 million credit card numbers from 40 American e-businesses in recent months, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Bank Technology News September 2009 John Adams	A Text Alert for Community Banks Crooks trick consumers into turning over personal information by sending dishonest text alerts to customers' mobile phones, often warning of fraudulent activity to mimic a security alert that an actual bank would send.
The Motley Fool December 9, 2010 Dan Dzombak	Aftermath of WikiLeaks Takedown: Operation Payback Hackers attack major U.S. companies in retribution for WikiLeaks.
Bank Technology News March 2011 Rebecca Sausner	FFIEC to Revisit Online Protection Banks' security for online accounts hasn't kept pace with the threat landscape, regulators say, and sources say the FFIEC may soon update its 1995 guidance on securing online banking transactions.
Entrepreneur June 2010 Ericka Chickowski	Protect Your Small Business Against Cyber Attacks Cybercrime costs the economy more than $1 trillion per year, and crooks are increasingly setting their sights on small businesses. A look at the most destructive threats to your network - and what you need to do about them.
Bank Technology News May 2010 Michael Sisk	Security Threats and Opportunities As more people adopt mobile banking and it becomes more transactional -- not just checking balances and getting alerts -- the security threats are likely to mount quickly.
Information Today June 2005 Phillip Britt	No Phishing Allowed Today, the biggest threats for companies and consumers are the new crimes with funny-looking names: phishing, pharming, and spim.
InternetNews June 22, 2010	Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Financial Firms Continue to Struggle to Plug Security Loopholes New technologies, such as pattern analysis, as well as awareness and training can help financial services firms keep hackers at bay.
InternetNews March 3, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Digg Hackers Strike Next at YouTube Attacks are on the rise, with malware authors dabbling in spreading worms and scareware via comments.
Bank Technology News January 2010 John Adams	Results First, Pay Later A growing wave of malware is plaguing Web banking, and new attacks are so effective that the market for a second line of defense is buzzing with activity.
InternetNews May 20, 2010	South America Emerges As Cybercrime Hotspot China gets all the bad press but it turns out that Luxembourg, the Cayman Islands and a bunch of South American countries are actually the least discriminating when it comes to filtering malware.
Bank Systems & Technology February 21, 2008 Danne Buchanan	Banks Will Face Competition in the RDC Space Third parties that can decouple remote deposit capture from the deposit relationship may pose a threat to banks in the payments space.
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Online Trust: A Thing of the Past? Malware attacks are turning the Web upside down, and complicating the efforts of security vendors and users to cope with the threats.
InternetNews January 24, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	IBM: Users Are The Weak Link in Security IBM is warning in a new report that, though widespread virus outbreaks are on the decline, on the whole online attacks are expected to rise in 2006. The culprit? Highly targeted attacks that rely on naive users to help perpetrate cybercrimes.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Welcome! You've Got Hackers! Someone threw a cyber war this week. It's great to know that the government is spending billions hardening the IT system against more competent attackers, but what we really need here is a solution to the real problem: Identifying who the attackers are.
InternetNews November 29, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Cyber Crime Grows More Dangerous And Sophisticated McAfee study finds online threats are getting more complex and brazen in what they target, like the U.S. military.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
CIO December 16, 2009 Robert McMillan	Five Things You Need to Know About Social Engineering How hackers can steal your data.
InternetNews May 10, 2011	DDoS Attacks Hit the Bottom Line According to VeriSign, DDoS attacks have gone mainstream with 63 percent of survey respondents getting hit at least once and 11 percent getting attacked more than six times.
Registered Rep. May 24, 2011 Lauren Barack	Cyber-Hackers: Faster, Better Equipped Than You Security should be the responsibility of all employees - not just the chief technology officer, or the principal of an advisory firm.
PC World February 21, 2007 Ryan Singel	Zero-Day Malware Attacks You Can't Block No matter how diligently you patch your PC, it may still be vulnerable during the first hours of a previously unseen attack. Here's what you should know about zero-day hazards and the security holes they exploit.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Beware Windows Hactivation Threat A new Trojan horse masquerading as a Windows security check is wreaking havoc on PCs. Find out how you can keep your system safe.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Tim Gray	Alliance Formed to Finger Hackers The Fingerprint Sharing Alliance, an initiative comprised of global communications service providers, attempts to decrease the number of Internet attacks.