Email, once the cyber criminals’ favourite method of delivering malware to your computer, has been replaced by the web as the primary conduit of attack says internet security firm Symantec.
In its latest Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec says that in the past, users had to intentionally visit malicious sites or click on malicious email attachments [...]

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To demonstrate why using fingerprints to secure passports is a bad idea, the German hacker group Chaos Computer Club has published what it says is the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany’s interior minister.
According to CCC, the print of Schauble’s index finger was lifted from a water glass that he used during a panel discussion that [...]

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Last summer, hackers manipulated the Coast Guard’s E-Learning system so that users were redirected to a Web site operated by al Jazeera, an Arab news organization, said the service’s chief information officer.
Field information systems security officers informed the Coast Guard Computer Incident Response Team of the problem, and the service took the E-Learning system offline [...]

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