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BlackBerry Q10 Gets Keyboard Optimised Skype and WhatsApp
Skype and WhatsApp arrive on BlackBerry Q10, but Z10 users miss out on VoIP app
Ofcom Praises Competitive UK Broadband Market
Ofcom says 9 million unbundled copper lines are bringing bills down
Nick Clegg ‘Kills Off Snooper’s Charter’
Over the Liberal Democrats' dead body, says Clegg
InfoSec 2013: British Banks Threatened By DDoS Boom
US bank attackers have turned their attention to Europe, and UK financial institutions have been told to prepare
Huawei Signals End To US Market Hopes
US suspicions about Huawei have resulted in it abandoning hope of selling its networking gear in that country
Virgin Media in good shape ahead of Liberty Global takeover
Cheeky Botnet Pusher Markets Wares On Facebook
Facebook used to sell Zeus botnet console, showing cyber crooks are getting considerably more brazen
InfoSec 2013: Thousands Of Open Servers Leave Critical Government...
Researchers find oil and gas systems, medical devices and naval ships could all be manipulated thanks to over 100,000 serial servers
Government Insists Universal Broadband Targets Will Be Met
Culture secretary Maria Miller says the government will have 90 percent of the country superfast by the end of 2015
InfoSec 2013: China Is ‘Biggest Source Of Advanced Cyber Attacks’
Two reports again claim China is the number one source of serious attacks
Japan Police Want To Block Nefarious Tor Use
Some fear Japanese police move could lead to a blanket ban of the anonymising service
Germany Fines Google £124k Over Street View Wi-Fi Snooping
German regulator complains Google's Wi-Fi snooping fine should be bigger
ISPs In ‘Conspiracy Of Silence’ With Government On...
Privacy groups accuse ISPs of betraying customers' trust by colluding with the Government
Mobile Growth Drives Home Network Expansion, Says Gartner
Residential networks will increase in sophistication thanks to the growing use of connected devices within the home
Reddit Hit By ‘Malicious DDoS’
Another day, another big site DDoSed
IT Life: Taking A Screwdriver To UK’s Internet
Simon McCalla, CTO at Nominet, likes to take stuff apart
Google 1Gbps Fibre Slated For Provo, Utah Arrival
Google's 1 Gbps broadband network is to be deployed next to the lucky residents in Provo, Utah
Intel Offers Open Software Defined Networks
Intel wants your sofware defined switches on its x86 processors
Bitcoin Blockchain And Mt.Gox Knocked Offline By DDoS Attacks
More trouble in Bitcoin land, with the Blockchain DDoSed, Mt.Gox suffering outages and BitFloor giving up entirely
Prolexic CEO: ‘Biggest Cyber Attack Ever’ Was Built On...
We were told it was the biggest DDoS ever, but Prolexic's CEO says it's hugely unlikely that's true
BT To Lay 660km Of Fibre In £18.9m Northumberland BDUK Deal
BT secures yet more BDUK funding to bring fibre to Northumberland
DDoS Power Up 718 Percent Amidst Widespread Batterings
Prolexic sees seven-fold rise in average attack strength
Video: Experts Weigh In On ‘Weightless’ – Part IV
Fourth part in TechWeekEurope’s video series looks at security of the Weightless standard and the purpose of the Weightless SIG
Dell Enhances Data Centre Fabric With New Switch
Dell launches its Active Fabric solution and offers a new modular network switch and management software
Anonymous Hits North Korea Sites Again
As South Korea reportedly takes its nuclear plants offline, Anonymous launches fresh attacks on North Korean websites
WordPress Sites Take Brute Force Battering
WordPress says security firms are hyping tales of attacks
Bitcoin Rocked By Java Exploit-Wielding Thieves And New DDoS Strike
Cyber crooks are getting awfully fond of Bitcoin
Video: Experts Weigh In On ‘Weightless’ – Part III
Third part in TechWeekEurope’s video series evaluates the possibility of 25 billion devices communicating through the Weightless standard
Google Fibre To Arrive In Austin, Texas
The capital of Texas is next in line to get gigabit broadband from Google