As such it is perhaps surprising that charities and 'non-profit' organisations may be targeted. Almost 70 per cent of attacks targeted at power and energy companies were deemed to be severe, while for banking and non-profit organisations the figure...
Many silicon.com readers have also contacted us in recent months saying they have been targeted. Bogus agencies are targeting software and IT companies with threatening letters demanding extortionate fees to register under the UK's Data Protection...
Thirteen per cent of incidents used known exploits, and 70 per cent targeted Microsoft's MSN service. Reports of malware, spam and hacking attacks over instant-messaging (IM) services are up 50 per cent this year, according to figures released by...
Gamblers playing in online casinos are being warned that they may increasingly be targeted by criminals looking to steal money by infecting their machines. A recent flurry of fairly small scale threat activity has led some to suspect that casinos...
And as Amazon and eBay users have been targeted, most notably by phishing scams, so Sunner says it is now the turn of MySpace. Social networking portal MySpace is becoming a major target for cyber criminals, with credit card fraud, phishing attacks...
Men only make up 32 per cent of the world's population - but most mobiles are targeted at males aged 20 to 64 it says. Mobile phones are designed by men for men, with women and children not getting a look in, according to analyst Gartner.