British law enforcement today completed a project dubbed Operation Papworth, aimed at reducing the exposure of the British online shopping public to fraudulent websites in the run up to Christmas. The Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit have been widely reported in the media as “shutting down” or “taking down” more than 1200 websites peddling fraudulent [...]
In the wake of the highly publicised “highly sophisticated and targeted” attacks on Google, at least three major governments have issued advisories urging their citizens to switch browsers away from Microsoft Internet Explorer. A well-known security company has redesigned their web sites to include a large ominous “Operation Aurora” graphic (that links to trial downloads [...]
It seems to be the season for defacements and hacktivity. The week began with the Cross Site Scripting attack on the Spanish EU website and the defacement hack of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s Official site and it closes with a high profile hack of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes, part of the Federal [...]
2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is known as botnets. A zombie, or a bot, is a PC infected by malware that brings it under the remote control of a criminal. Criminals run networks that can range [...]
On the 1st of January this year German employers became subject to a new legal requirement, one that has their own Data Protection Authorities, Trade Unions and Civil Rights groups appalled.
From the beginning of 2010 every German employer must now submit detailed information on a monthly basis to the so-called ELENA database, ELENA is an acronym [...]
