Apps and Software

LONDON — For the first time in the UK, customers at two banks will be able to access their accounts using a fingerprint.

Royal Bank of Scotland has introduced the service Wednesday for its RBS and Natwest customers who use an iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Plus, which all have Apple's Touch ID technology.

Nearly half of RBS' 15 million customers use online banking, with three million of these accessing the services via the company's mobile apps

For the 880,000 RBS customers with Touch ID-enabled iPhones, they can opt to log into their accounts almost instantly with their fingerprints instead of typing in passwords ...

An incredibly sophisticated cyber espionage operation, likely originating in the U.S., has been discovered by the security researchers at Russia's Kaspersky Lab

Dubbed the Equation Group, this "threat actor" has been using spyware and malware tools to infect computers of governments, telecoms, military, nuclear research, energy and other companies in more than 30 countries. Kaspersky did not say who's behind Equation, but its findings, presented during a security conference in Cancun, Mexico on Monday, indicate the group's malware is closely tied to ...

Hackers have stolen as much as $1 billion from banks in the U.S. and around the world in one of the biggest cyber-heists ever, Russian security company Kaspersky Lab reports

According to the report, which was first delivered to The New York Times and is slated to become widely available Monday, the hacker group, which includes members from Russia, China and Europe, has been active since late 2013, stealing from more than 100 banks in 30 countries

To do this, hackers used malware that infiltrated the banks' computers, looking for weaknesses in their daily operations. After months of surveillance, hackers used an old tactic: impersonating bank officers, using false credentials to transfer millions of dollars to their accounts. The hackers also programmed ATMs to dispense money at specific times ...