A cybercriminal group is hijacking high-profile YouTube channels – MIT Technology Review
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SWIFT asks its customers to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds
Financial transaction network SWIFT called on its customers Friday to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds perpetrated using its network.
The SWIFT network itself is still secure, it insisted in a letter to banks and financial institutions. However, some of its customers have suffered security breaches in their own infrastructure, allowing attackers to fraudulently authorize transactions and send them over the SWIFT network, it said.
That’s the best explanation so far for how authenticated instructions were sent from Bangladesh Bank to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the SWIFT network, ordering the transfer of almost US$ 1 billion. The Fed transferred around $ 101 million of that before identifying an anomaly in one of the instructions. Only $ 20 million of that has so far been recovered.
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Computer-Security Industry Critiques Itself Following High-Profile Breaches – Wall Street Journal
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Computer-Security Industry Critiques Itself Following High-Profile Breaches
Wall Street Journal Nearly 500 companies will gather in San Francisco this week, seeking a piece of the $ 80 billion industry that tries to keep bad people out of good people's computers. But the guy at the front of the RSA Conference, the computer security industry's … |
‘Flame’ virus offshoot burns high-profile victims – VentureBeat
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'Flame' virus offshoot burns high-profile victims
VentureBeat Researchers announced a new malware called miniFlame today that may be monitoring and stealing data from specific, highly profitable victims. It is a sister to the Flame malware that made headlines earlier this year. The malware was found by Kaspersky … |