The short answer is – yes! But ESET Ireland takes a closer look at how to go about reporting cybercrime. Ireland is increasingly under attack by scammers, ransomware and other types of online financial fraud. Most victims, however, worry most about restoring their data or securing their credit cards, rather than reporting the incident to … More If you were a victim of cybercrime, should you report it?
An 18-year-old man has been charged by British police in connection with an internet attack that saw Mumsnet hacked, users’ accounts breached, passwords stolen, and the site blasted offline. David Gerrard Buchanan, 18, from Haslemere, Surrey, was charged by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) with two counts under section 1 of the Computer … More Teenager charged over Mumsnet hack and DDoS attack
It’s understandable that Microsoft is sensitive about the expanding and highly adaptive trade in tech support scams, since users of its services remain a primary target for this type of scam. That said, users of other platforms are far more likely to be targeted nowadays than they were a few years ago. There have been … More Tech support scams go with a Bing
Over 117 million emails and passwords belonging to LinkedIn members have been put online for sale, it has been revealed. Worryingly, this trove of information is not thought to have been obtained from a recent data breach. In fact, it is believed that the data was accessed in 2012, when the professional social network was … More 117 million LinkedIn members compromised by 2012 data breach
The latest report states 77 computers, laptops, mobiles, were lost or stolen from HSE in the last 5 years. Ok, 5 years, means approximately since 2010/11. But they couldn’t exactly account for all of them before that either. A headline from 2008 says 55 HSE laptops go missing, then three more in 2009 and a … More What’s happening with HSE’s lost computers?
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