- Swiss bank alleged £6.2 million account loss highlights the problem of email-driven data leaks
- Yvonne Eskenzi
- InfoSecurity
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Reports that a German hacker has successfully cracked a secure hashing algorithm (SHA-1) password using a pay-as-you-use cloud computing based parallel processing environment is very worrying, says Credant Technologies.
We’re all familiar with Zeus, the king of financial malware. It is infamous for targeting banks, credit unions and financial institutions. Zeus silently steals password and account information from customers of these institutions, and uses their credentials to execute fraudulent money transfers.
In this piece, Darshna Kamani races ahead of all of us to 2011 and foretells the security threats that lie ahead. Happy reading!
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