There have been bigger cyber-attacks on health-insurance firms, though the information obtained in those cases is not thought to include medical particulars, which are highly prized by online fraudsters.Uber, an app-based taxi service that faces many legal challenges to its business model, had more setbacks this week.
State-sponsored industrial espionage became a bigger cyber-threat to companies in 2012, a report indicates.
It's hard to remember that just a year and a half ago, the supposed biggest cyber threat in US history was China.
Whenever it is that Iranian, Chinese, Russian, or anarchist hackers get around to a big cyber attack, New York may be attractive to them for the same reasons it was to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden.
Those numbers could climb after a technology failure by Yahoo last week left its 45,000 merchants without functioning Web sites for much of the big Cyber Monday holiday shopping day.
The Year's Biggest Cyber Threats.
The palace has since confirmed a big cyber attack did take place.
After a record-breaking Black Friday, retailers may be in for a big Cyber Monday as well.
As we heard earlier this year in Verizon's big cyber security report, the biggest threats today, he confirms, come from organized crime, nation states looking for IP from other countries and hacktivists like Anonymous.
Ebay's big Cyber Monday push this year was nothing if not a chance to flaunt that change to the public, as the company positioned itself alongside Amazon and Best Buy as a source for rock bottom pricing for things like electronics and shoes, a pair of which was apparently sold every second yesterday.
We live in a big cyber world filled to the brim with dating apps and websites.
