Security

Apple Fans Beware – Hackers Want To Hold Your iPhone To Ransom

iPhone and iPad users hit by trick that freezes Safari until a ransom is paid

9 years ago

Microsoft Security Essentials Support For Windows XP Ends

Another reason to migrate from Windows XP, as Microsoft Security Essentials support officially ends

9 years ago

Microsoft Dishes Final Windows Server 2003 Updates On Patch Tuesday

Final Windows Server 2003 updates are released as Micrososft patches its own Hacking Team vulnerability

9 years ago

Malwarebytes Rolls Out Anti-Malware Tool For Macs

New product will help combat Mac malware as part of growing Apple security concerns

9 years ago

Adobe Patches ‘Critical’ Flash Flaws After Firefox Block

Adobe Flash fixes arrive in effort to get plug-in unblocked by default

9 years ago

Barclays Compensates Customers Over Latest Data Breach

Data on thousands of customers stolen in 2008 has been recovered by police from a flat on the south coast…

9 years ago

Firefox Blocks Flash By Default To Protect Against Fresh ‘Critical’ Vulnerabilities

Mozilla disables Flash by default in Firefox after Hacking Team documents reveal the 37th and 38th flaws in plug-in this…

9 years ago

Hacking Team: Galileo Surveillance Tool Now ‘Obsolete’

The Milan surveillance tools maker said the surveillance source code released last week is now effectively useless

9 years ago

McAfee: NYSE Outage Shows Need For Technical Leadership

Hackers are a positive force helping to locate technical problems before they occur, McAfee said

9 years ago

Hacking Team Blames Government For Breach

The surveillance technology maker said the complex attack required months of planning

9 years ago

New ‘Wild Neutron’ Hacker Group Targets Bitcoin Firms

Wild Neutron is uncovered by security researchers Symantec and Kaspersky

9 years ago

UK Companies Failing To Educate Their Non-Technical Staff In IT Security

Receptionists and sales staff need training and protecting too, Intel Security report notes

9 years ago

Lizard Squad Hacker Avoids Jail Despite 50,000 Attacks

No justice? Finnish teenager and Lizard Squad member responsible for 50,700 hacks avoids prison time

9 years ago

OpenSSL Delivers Patch To Fix Critical Vulnerability

New version of OpenSSL arrives to address a single ‘high severity’ vulnerability

9 years ago

Dyre Returns As Malicious Spam Targets UK Bank Customers

Return of Dyre malware. Malicious emails targetting UK banking customers contain the nasty trojan

9 years ago

Dell Opens ‘State-Of-The-Art’ Scottish Security Facility

Skyfall this is not, but Edinburgh's Secure Operations Centre will be European Dell SecureWorks HQ

9 years ago

United Airlines Grounded By ‘Network Fault’

US passengers delayed by 'network connectivity issue' that grounded United Airlines planes

9 years ago

NYSE 4-Hour Blackout Caused by Technical Glitch

Yesterday's glitch threw Wall Street into one of the biggest blackouts ever experienced, but the outage was reportedly not a…

9 years ago

Incoming OpenSSL Patch Draws Heartbleed Comparisons

OpenSSL patch will fix 'high severity' vulnerability, but no other details are known

9 years ago

Hacking Team Breach Reveals ‘Beautiful’ New Flash Flaw

New flaws in both Windows and Adobe Flash have been uncovered following last week's Hacking Team breach

9 years ago

Google Removes Malicious App From Play Store

Google purges "evil" Malapp from Play Store that disguised itself as genuine program and sent premium SMS messages

9 years ago

Nearly 5,000 New Types Of Android Malware Created Every Day

Report from G DATA shows huge expansion in Android malware this year

9 years ago

Brits Still Don’t Trust Internet Banking

Almost half of Internet users believe traditional banking is safer going online, Kaspersky Lab survey reveals

9 years ago

How To Pitch Identity Governance And Admin Technology To Your CFO

We’ve picked the brains of the experts to explain the benefits of Identity Governance & Admin

9 years ago

DDoS Wars: The Network Strikes Back

It's time your IT department rebelled against the cybercrime empire, says Srinivasan CR, VP of global product management, data centre…

9 years ago

Trend Micro Signs National Crime Agency Partnership Deal

The two organisations are to work more closely together on tackling specific cyber-threats

9 years ago

Fujitsu: IT Security ‘Needs To Be For Everyone’

Rob Norris tells TechWeekEurope why education could play a major role in providing the security specialists of the future

9 years ago

Hacking Team Hit By Data Breach

The controversial surveillance tools maker has been hit by attackers, who have published a cache of its internal documents

9 years ago

Bitcoin Warns Of Double-Spending Glitch

A software upgrade has led to invalid elements being introduced into Bitcoin's public ledger system

9 years ago

Amnesty International Demands Inquiry After GCHQ Spying

Amnesty calls for independent inquiry over UK spying on human rights organisations

9 years ago