Romania
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Web underground economy thriving
News Symantec's Report on the Underground Economy details cheap cyberattack tools, high price tags for bank account information, and software piracy trends.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Economy Server, Asia-Pacific, Tool, Password, IRC, credit card information, software, Symantec Corp.
India, China keep cost-advantage for next 20 years
News World's top two offshore outsourcing locations will continue to dominate, an AT Kearney study reveals.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring
Tech firms call for approval of cybercrime treaty
News Senate asked to ratify controversial treaty mandating Net eavesdropping, strict copyright laws. Civil liberties groups don't like it.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Corporate law, Piracy
UK urged to coordinate with EU allies on spam
News The United Kingdom and other member countries need to make a concerted effort to crack down on spam and spyware, according to the European Commission.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Hacking, Commission, Malware, Romania, European Commission, U.K., Telecommunications, Spam, European Union
Audit: No customer data exposed in Kaspersky breach
News Database security expert David Litchfield analyzes attack on security firm Web site and finds no sensitive data was accessed.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Customer Data, Security, Database, Attack, Bitdefender, SQL, Kaspersky, Attacker
India's new outsourcing rival--Romania?
News The rising costs for U.K. companies that provide and use Indian offshore information technology services could drive businesses to cheaper locations, such as Eastern Europe, according to a new report.
Vodafone unveils handsets for developing world
News Tie-in with Chinese manufacturer results in low-cost mobile phones designed to 'enfranchise' millions.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Development/design
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement in countries including Romania, warning that not enough is being done to stop fraudsters targeting auction sites.
Tags: Spam and phishing, E-commerce
McAfee: Beware the .hk domain, among others
News Security company's new report ranks riskiest and safest domains on the Internet. Damage from risky sites runs from the "apocalyptic to the annoying".
Tags: Spam and phishing, Domain names, Security, Site, Adware, Domain, software, McAfee Inc., researcher, China
Hacker hits IRC network Undernet with denial-of-service attack
News A hacker based in Romania has launched a major distributed denial-of-service attack, forcing one of the largest Internet Relay Chat networks, Undernet, to shut down much of its service, system administrators said.
eBay targets Romanian fraudsters
News A common scheme of those hoping to bilk bidders: send e-mail messages to people who had narrowly lost an auction.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security Management
McAfee: .gov sites are safest
News But one in 10 sites with a domain from the island of Tokelau spread malicious software or warrant a warning.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing
EU border checks go biometric
News Visitors to Europe will face biometric screening and automated security checks under proposals for a shake-up of EU border controls.
Tags: Biometrics
Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations
News The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations.
Tags: IT outsourcing
FBI targets rise in cybercrime from US and abroad
News A rise in cybercrime prompts the FBI to work more closely with foreign law enforcement to crack down on attacks that impact the United States.
Tags: Security, Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, FBI, Stock, Russia, agent, financial, network, partnership
