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Botnet Viruses Heighten Computer Hijacking Risk

The threat posed by criminal hackers who use networks of secretly hijacked computers has increased "dramatically" over the past several years, a top U.S. Justice Department prosecutor testified ...

FBI Announces Massive Cyber Crime Bust; Takes Down Blackshades Malware

Law enforcement officials in more than a dozen countries arrested about 90 people in a U.S.-led crackdown on the makers and users of software designed to steal identities and remotely control ...

How Companies Can Guard Against Employee Betrayal: Schneier

Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing has concentrated on government's ...

Microsoft Offers Hefty Bounties To Thwart Hackers

Microsoft Corp. is looking to recruit computer geeks in its ongoing efforts to protect Windows PCs from attacks, offering rewards of as much as $150,000 to anybody who helps identify and fix major ...

IT, Security Sector Booming In Romania, Bulgaria Though Hacking Center Remains

After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. TinKode was the name used by Romanian ...