Security

White House Hires Ex-Facebook Director For Tech Modernisation

Former engineering boss at Facebook hired as the first ever director of IT at the White House

10 years ago

NJRat Trojan Returns To Life, Warns PhishMe

A remote access trojan, last seen a year ago, is making a reappearance warns security researcher

10 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Predicts US Government Defeat Over Encryption

The tech industry will win fight against governments over the use of encryption on devices, says Eric Schmidt

10 years ago

Target To Settle Epic Data Breach Lawsuit With $10m Payoff

The stark reality of the financial cost of a data breach is revealed, as Target aims to settle lawsuit for…

10 years ago

GCHQ Licensed To Hack Phones And Computers

Licensed to spy. GCHQ permitted to hack into computers and phones, even with no national security concerns

10 years ago

North Korea Web Outage Was Revenge For Sony Hack

North Korea's December Internet blackout was in retaliation for the Sony hack, admits US cybersecurity official

10 years ago

Anonymous Lists Thousands Of ‘ISIS Twitter Accounts’

The group has released its largest-yet list of social media accounts allegedly used by ISIS

10 years ago

Small Businesses Need To Face Up To Big Security Problems

Terry Greer-King, director of cyber security at Cisco UK&I, tells TechWeekEurope why security short-sightedness could spell disaster for SMBs

10 years ago

Key Repetition Makes FREAK Attacks Easier

British researchers have found that repetition of encryption keys could make FREAK attacks cheaper and more attractive

10 years ago

Microsoft Warns Of Possible Attacks Using False SSL Certificate

A counterfeit certificate issued for 'live.fi' could be used in attacks against any version of Windows

10 years ago

BlackBerry Announces Tablet With Chip-Based Security

The SecuTablet, a collaboration with IBM and Samsung, is aimed at enterprise and government users

10 years ago

Silk Road Moderator Nash Pleads Guilty, Faces Life In Prison

Australian Peter Nash admitted to helping operate the Silk Road online drugs marketplace

10 years ago

Panda Antivirus Bricks PCs After Faulty Update

Face-palm time. Panda Antivirus accidentally labels itself malware and damages an undisclosed number of PCs

10 years ago

EU To Model New Security Force On British Counter-Terrorism Unit

Plans for a Europe-wide counter-terrorism unit are being considered to tackle Jihad John and his pals

10 years ago

‘Nearly Half’ Of Public Sectors Bodies Have Suffered A Data Breach

Staff often just too busy to cope with new government guidelines, Iron Mountain report claims

10 years ago

Hacker Releases More South Korean Nuclear Data

Nuclear operator insists leaked secrets, including blueprints of reactor, are not 'classified material'

10 years ago

BT And Darktrace Team Up To Offer Threat Detection To Customers

BT is to use Darktrace to protect its own networks and will offer threat protection to managed service customers

10 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Resolves FREAK Flaw

No more FREAKY business. Microsoft rushes out fix for legacy encryption flaw in Patch Tuesday update

10 years ago

Two Arrested After ‘Largest Ever’ Data Breach

Three charged in the United States following major data breach, authorities confirm

10 years ago

Dropbox Repairs Android Security Fault

Cloud storage service repairs flaw that could have allowed hackers to capture data via third party apps

10 years ago

Podec Trojan Can Trick CAPTCHA Into Thinking It Is Human

Russian malware is able to bypass CAPTCHA inputs, Kaspersky report claims

10 years ago

Android 5.1 Gains Business-Friendly Device Protection Feature

Google includes a new mobile device security feature in its latest Android 5.1 Lollipop update to make the operating system…

10 years ago

Wikimedia Foundation Sues NSA Over Internet Surveillance

The operator of Wikipedia said it hopes to rein in the NSA's mass Internet surveillance operations

10 years ago

‘Rowhammer’ Exploits Target Computer Memory

Two exploits developed by Google's Project Zero allow an attacker to take over a system by targeting a physical weakness…

10 years ago

New CIA Digital Directorate To Focus On Cyber-Spying

The new Directorate of Digital Innovation is to accelerate the CIA's development of cyber-espionage capabilities

10 years ago

Windows PCs At Risk From FREAK Encryption Flaw

The encryption issue disclosed in iOS, Android and Mac OS X systems last week also affects all supported versions of…

10 years ago

NCA Arrests 57 Suspects In Cybercrime Clampdown

National Crime Agency arrests dozens in cybercrime clampdown on suspected hackers and other online criminals

10 years ago

Oracle Uses Java To Install Adware On Macs, PCs

Superfish take two? Oracle is now bundling Ask.com adware on Mac computers via the Java installation

10 years ago

Pentagon Seeks Hacker Proof Weapon Systems

The top American arms buyer wants future US weapon systems to be hacker-proof

10 years ago

Box Looks To BYOD With Subspace Acquisition

Cloud storage player buys startup that offers staff browser-based access to enterprise applications

10 years ago