Security

Adobe Patches ‘Critical’ Flash Flaws After Firefox Block

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

10 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…

10 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…

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

Hacking Team Blames Government For Breach

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

10 years ago

New ‘Wild Neutron’ Hacker Group Targets Bitcoin Firms

Wild Neutron is uncovered by security researchers Symantec and Kaspersky

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

OpenSSL Delivers Patch To Fix Critical Vulnerability

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

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

United Airlines Grounded By ‘Network Fault’

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

10 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…

10 years ago

Incoming OpenSSL Patch Draws Heartbleed Comparisons

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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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…

10 years ago

Trend Micro Signs National Crime Agency Partnership Deal

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

10 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

10 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

10 years ago

Bitcoin Warns Of Double-Spending Glitch

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

10 years ago

Amnesty International Demands Inquiry After GCHQ Spying

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

10 years ago

Silk Road Undercover Agent Admits Bitcoin Fraud

Fallout from Silk Road continues after former DEA undercover agent pleads guilty to extorting bitcoins

10 years ago

Mastercard Wants To Use Your Face To Pay For Things

New facial-scanning authentication security process hopes to launch later this year

10 years ago

Windows 10 Lets You Share Wi-Fi Password Wirelessly, But Is It Safe?

Security experts question wisdom of automatically sharing Wi-Fi credentials to contacts over-the-air with Windows 10

10 years ago

Donald Trump Hotel Card System Hacked

Luxury hotels belonging to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have been hacked

10 years ago