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On August 18, 2014  the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, NCCIC, and United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, US-CERT, issued an alert that there is a new POS, Point of Sale Malware Attack. This advisory was prepared in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), United States Secret Service (USSS), Financial Sector Information […]

Before now Cryptolocker victims had to pay a hefty fee to get the keys to reverse the Cryptolocker Virus. All 500,000 victims of Cryptolocker can now recover files encrypted by the malware without paying a ransom. The malicious program encrypted files on Windows computers and demanded a substantial fee before handing over the key to […]

Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.   The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security […]