Hackers are increasingly targeting small companies for cyber-attack and the amount of malware directed at mobile operating systems is rapidly escalating, according to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report for 2012. The report, issued last month, said half of all targeted attacks last year were aimed at businesses with fewer than 2,500 employees. The largest growth area for targeted attacks was … Read more

A high-level commission into the theft of US intellectual property (IP) has made wide-reaching recommendations on tightening cybersecurity, including “aggressive” changes to the law to bring it  up to date with rapidly evolving computer crime. The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, chaired by former director of national intelligence Dennis Blair and former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, … Read more

Critical infrastructure in the US –  including the energy sector with its nuclear power facilities – is increasingly coming under cyber attack from hostile nations and a range of other hackers, with potentially disastrous consequences. The warning was issued earlier this month by Charles Edwards, deputy inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who emphasized the need for … Read more