Security

Hacked TV5Monde Passwords Appear In Television Interview

In a 'blunder' resulting from the chaos caused by last week's cyberattack, passwords for YouTube and other social media accounts…

9 years ago

IT Life: Securing Our SIM Cards

Gemalto's UK manager Howard Berg tells TechWeek about his career, his admiration of Disney and love of cards

9 years ago

Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Starts In Austria

A closely-watched data privacy lawsuit against Facebook has been filed in an Austrian court today

9 years ago

Europol And Security Firms Take Down ‘Polymorphic’ Beebone Botnet

Joint operation between authorities and security firms helps to take down 'wormlike' Beebone

9 years ago

AT&T Slapped With ‘Largest Ever’ US Data Breach Fine

US regulator sanctions AT&T over breaches at three overseas call centres that exposed valuable customer data

9 years ago

Islamic State Hacks French TV Station TV5Monde

Mon dieu! French culture minister demands urgent meeting after Islamic State blacks out TV broadcasts

9 years ago

Heartbleed a Year Later: How the Security Conversation Changed

BLOG: In the year since Heartbleed's discovery, there is more scrutiny than ever on OpenSSL and critical infrastructure overall.

9 years ago

FBI Warns Of Islamic State Campaign Against WordPress Sites

Islamic State sympathizers are targeting WordPress vulnerabilities according to the FBI

9 years ago

Singtel Targets Cyber Security With Trustwave Purchase

Asian telecom operator pays over half a billion pounds for Trustwave

9 years ago

White House Breach Blamed On Russian Hackers

The White House network breach was carried out by hackers “likely working” for the Russian government

9 years ago

Google Chrome Extension Sends ‘Millions’ Of Users’ Information To IP In US

Researchers discover secret habits of 'Webpage Screenshot' as Google Chrome extensions come under scrutiny

9 years ago

Expired Certificate Causes Global Gmail Glitch

Google neglected to renew a key certificate, causing error messages for the 'majority' of Gmail users over the weekend

9 years ago

Conservatives Promise Age Checks For Online Porn

Sites based either in the UK or abroad would be blocked if they don't impement such controls, according to the…

9 years ago

‘Dyre Wolf’ Bank Transfer Scam Nets Criminals $1bn To Date

Sophisticated bank transfer cyber scam uses 'advanced social engineering' to fleece US companies

9 years ago

China Outrage At Google Digital Certificate Rejection

Chinese administrator labels Google's rejection of its digital certificates as "unacceptable"

9 years ago

US Sanctions To Tackle Cyber Hacker Scourge

Hackers outside US will be financially punished after United States launches a cyber sanctions program

9 years ago

Lebanese Hackers Behind Volatile Cedar Spy Campaign

Hackers linked to Lebanese political group are behind a 'well managed' espionage campaign, warns researcher

9 years ago

5 DNS Attack Vectors You Need To Be Wary Of – And How To Defend Against Them

Chris Marrison, consulting solutions architect, Infoblox, explains how to protect your organisation against some of the most sneaky and damaging…

9 years ago

China ‘Carried Out GitHub DDoS Attack’

The Chinese government allegedly used its own official Internet filters to carry out a massive denial-of-service attack against GitHub, say…

10 years ago

Microsoft Azure Cloud Apps Get Key Deployment Service

Thales goes forth with Bring Your Own Key package for Azure cloud apps

10 years ago

Silk Road Agents Charged With Stealing Bitcoin

Two former US federal investigators involved in the Silk Road probe have been charged with stealing funds during the investigation

10 years ago

Europol Chief Criticises Online Encryption

Messaging and smartphone encryption have created a 'capability gap' for law enforcement and security organisations, according to Rob Wainwright

10 years ago

Australian Immigration Email Exposes G20 Leaders’ Personal Information

Australian government accidentally sends G20 leaders' information to Asian Cup organisers but decides not to tell anyone

10 years ago

Insecure Passwords Or Insecure People?

Richard Walters, GM & VP of Identity and Access Management at Intermedia, discusses the best way to manage passwords

10 years ago

British Airways Loyalty Accounts Hacked

The airline has confirmed that tens of thousands of user accounts were accessed by hackers using credentials from other websites

10 years ago

Sketchy Checkout: How PoS Malware Could Be Putting Your Card Data At Risk

Retailers beware, your PoS terminals could be opening you up to a world of malware, Trustwave tells TechWeekEurope

10 years ago

Australia Passes Mandatory Data Retention Laws

Communications metadata can now be accessed by Australian government without need of a search warrant

10 years ago

Huawei Poses ‘No Threat’ To UK Security, Says Advisory Board

Oversight board gives Huawei the all clear in report to the UK national security advisor

10 years ago

Router Hack Inserts Ads And Porn Into Websites

Fraud scheme uses router hack to intercept Google Analytics tags and replace them with smut and adverts

10 years ago

Threat-Sharing Cybersecurity Bill Gets Public Airing

Proposed law to allow American companies to share cybersecurity threats with government, without being sued

10 years ago