via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...
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via the Daily Telegraph The internet was never meant to do sensitive banking transactions, cyber criminals are winning the war against online security and Australia’s easy going nature is making us vulnerable targets to ever-more sophisticated internet thugs. That was San Francisco-based inter...
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via NetworkWorld It’s a new twist on an old scam. The Army Times newspaper today details the growing trend of fraudsters stealing the identities of US Army soldiers from social network sites and then using that information to set up false profiles on Internet dating sites. The profiles are use...