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60 Minutes Shows How Network Flaw Makes Any Smartphone Easy Prey
2016-04-19 19:24:11| TechNewsWorld
An international team of cybersecurity experts hacked into an iPhone loaned to a U.S. congressman who sits on a key technology committee, in a 60 Minutes demonstration of how easy it is for a criminal to spy on callers by exploiting an international mobile phone network vulnerability. The hackers were able to listen in on a call by Rep. Ted Lieu just by getting the actual phone number he was using.
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Mattel falls prey to China cyber-thieves
2016-03-30 20:54:05| Toys - Topix.net
The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc.'s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China. It was well-timed, arriving on Thursday, April 30, during a tumultuous period for the Los-Angeles based maker of Barbie dolls.
Malicious Emailers Find Healthcare Firms Juicy Prey
2015-02-26 18:11:57| TechNewsWorld
Healthcare providers have garnered growing interest from hackers in recent months. More evidence of that trend appeared last week in a report on email trust. An email that appeared to come from a healthcare company was four times more likely to be fraudulent than an email purportedly from a social media company like Facebook, one of the largest creators of email on the Internet, Agari found.
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Shoes of Prey has U.S. custom shoe lovers in its crosshairs
2015-01-07 19:03:38| Apparel - Topix.net
Australian native Jodie Fox was a lawyer with a love for custom shoes before she founded Shoes of Prey with two former Google employees in Sydney. Now that the company has deals to open studios in half a dozen Nordstrom stores she's transplanting to New York City.
Execs in Asian luxury hotels fall prey to cyber espionage: study
2014-11-10 17:36:25| Wireless - Topix.net
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated industrial espionage campaign that targets business executives in luxury hotels across Asia once they sign on to computers using in-room wireless connections they consider private and secure. The attacks, which go well beyond typical cybercriminal operations, have claimed thousands of victims dating back to 2009 and continue to do so, Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest private security firm, shows in a report published on Monday.