Security

Adobe Rolls Out ‘Emergency’ Flash Patch

Patch looks to address issues in Flash which have recently been hijacked by cybercriminals

9 years ago

Amazon Suffers Unexplained Website Outage

Amazon.com, AWS and Amazon Prime Music were all affected

9 years ago

Hacker Typo Thwarts Billion Dollar Bank Heist

Sheer scale of banking crime revealed after prevention of billion dollar bank heist, but attackers still pocketed $80m

9 years ago

Draft Bill To Penalise Tech Firms For Refusing Encryption Order

US senators close to finalising draft bill that will penalise tech firms who refuse court orders over encrypted data

9 years ago

How To Hack A Bank In 20 Minutes

Ryan MacDougall, senior security consultant at Coalfire, details the simple techniques he (hypothetically?) used to breach a major bank

9 years ago

Microsoft Browsers Fixed In Latest Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's Edge and Internet Explorer browsers gain fixes for critical flaws in latest security update

9 years ago

Cisco: People Don’t Realise How Big We Are In Security

Cisco's European cybersecurity director says company can break down barriers to digitisation, simplify security processes and make the most of…

9 years ago

RSA: Committing Online Fraud Is Just Too Easy

Daniel Cohen, head of FraudAction at RSA - a security division of EMC - explains how cybercriminals have upped their…

9 years ago

Facebook Fixes Account Takeover Bug

The bug could have allowed a user to take over anyone's Facebook account using a simple brute-force attack

9 years ago

GCHQ Director: Tech Companies ‘Routinely’ Help Law Enforcement

Security services don't need a master pass-key for all encrypted communications, but IT companies should do their bit, argues GCHQ's…

9 years ago

NatWest Steps Up Online Banking Security Following Scam

Tightening of NatWest security follows investigation into 'SMS swapping' campaign

9 years ago

Seagate Employees’ Personal Data Pinched In Phishing Attack

Plenty more phish in the Sea-gate: Employee tricked by fake email from CEO asking for W-2 forms of 'thousands' of…

9 years ago

Brits Continue To Share Passwords Despite Knowing Risks

Survey urges Brits to stop sharing login details and using the same passwords

9 years ago

UK Government Venture Bemoans Inadequate Workplace Security Education

Effectiveness of security training appears to vary depending on executive versus employee opinion, Axelos survey finds

9 years ago

Amazon To Restore Encryption To Fire OS

Amazon changes its mind about removing encryption features from Kindle Fire and other Amazon products

9 years ago

Apple Users Stung By First Ever Mac Ransomware

Palo Alto Networks uncovers nasty ransomware buried in Transmission file sharing software for Macs - infected users will have their…

9 years ago

A Day In The Life Of Google’s Security Chief

Gerhard Eschelbeck, Google's vice president of security engineering, details at the RSA Conference how his company does security at scale

9 years ago

Amazon Has Disabled Encryption On Fire OS

Latest version of Fire software appears to leave users at risk of cyber-attacks

9 years ago

Android Trojan Triada Spotted In Wild By Kaspersky Lab

Secure your Android devices as Kaspersky spots stealthy, sophisticated Triada trojan in the wild

9 years ago

MWC 2016: IoT Security ‘Is A Mess’ Says Sophos’ James Lyne

Sophos’ James Lyne talks about the ‘mess’ that is IoT security and why safeguarding smartphones is crucial

9 years ago

UK Businesses Are Not Reporting Cyber-Attacks

IoD and Barclays survey says that businesses need to “get real” about cyber security

9 years ago

Nokia: Smartphones Now Biggest Source Of Network Malware

Apple's security credentials also dented as iOS malware infections enter top twenty, Nokia report finds

9 years ago

Brazil Arrests Facebook Executive As WhatsApp Row Deepens

Facebook brands Brazilian decision to jail executive as “extreme and disproportionate”

9 years ago

A Third Of All HTTPS Servers Are Vulnerable To DROWN OpenSSL Bug

Researchers detail how DROWN can be used to decrypt communications on HTTPS-secure websites and urge server operators to update now

9 years ago

RSA Slams Backdoors And Goes Hunting

Governments need to stop muddying the waters, says RSA president Amit Yoran

9 years ago

RSA Conference 2016: What’s Old Security is New Again

BLOG: Kurt Stammberger, founder of the RSA Conference, sees the same issues in FBI vs. Apple as were brought to…

9 years ago

IBM Creates Breach Response Team With Resilient Systems Acquisition

The acquisition is part of IBM's efforts to expand its four-year-old security services unit

9 years ago

‘Fingerprinting’ Helps Malvertising Attacks Find Victims And Avoid Detection

Research shows more malvertising assaults are using 'fingerprinting' at an advert level to avoid unncessary attention and save bandwidth

9 years ago

Snapchat Employee Wage Details Leaked In Phishing Scam

Unfortunately, leaked Snapchat salary information didn't delete itself after ten seconds

9 years ago