Security

‘Anonymous’ App Whisper Denies Tracking Claims

Whisper, which claims to allow users to post messages anonymously, has defended itself against The Guardian's claims that it tracks…

10 years ago

Mastercard Launches Fingerprint-Enabled Credit Card

Card provider teams up with Zwipe to launch new contactless payments method

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: VMware And Virtualisation

What do you know about VMware, its history and virtualisation?

10 years ago

Microsoft “Blocks 10 Million Spam Messages A Minute”

Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online Protection service is the company's weapon in an escalating arms race with spammers

10 years ago

Facebook Doubles Bug Bounty for Advertising Code Flaws

Double payout for discovery of advertising coding flaws demonstrates advertising importance to Facebook

10 years ago

Intel Makes Retail Payments More Secure With New IoT Security Tool

Intel Data Protection Technology for Transactions should mean fewer retailers run the risk of having customer data stolen

10 years ago

Google Reveals ‘Poodle’ SSL Encryption Vulnerability

Another flaw discovered in the technology supposed to protect computer users has been revealed

10 years ago

Forgetting Passwords Is Now The Most Annoying Habit For Brits

More than one in three of us have admit to being locked out of accounts due to not remembering the…

10 years ago

Russian ‘Sandworm’ Hackers Targeted NATO, EU, Poland

Attackers have been using a zero-day Windows flaw to infiltrate government targets for at least the past five years, iSight…

10 years ago

Millions Of Dropbox Passwords “Hacked”

Up to seven million passwords are apparently being held to ransom by hackers demanding Bitcoin

10 years ago

Meet the App that Can Help Protect Your Photos From The Snapchat Hackers

Yovo scrambles or blurs your photos to ensure that they stay private

10 years ago

‘Only 100 People’ Are Responsible For The World’s Cybercrime, Says Europol

Troels Oerting calls for greater international co-operation to help the fight against cybercriminals

10 years ago

NHS Data-Sharing Programme Set For Pilot

Controversial care.data programme is to be tested in four areas to help allay confidentiality fears

10 years ago

Hackers Leak 13GB Of Snapchat Images

The images were taken from third-party services used to access Snapchat and posted on notorious site 4chan

10 years ago

Police Admit Seized Mobile Phones Are Being Remotely Wiped

A report suggest smartphones and tablets taken in as evidence are being remotely wiped

10 years ago

Symantec Confirms Company Breakup

Symantec confirms breakup of company into two separate entities: security and information management

10 years ago

Fear Of Data Breaches And Unreliable Wi-Fi Networks “Holding Back” UK SMBs

Over three quarter of British small and medium businesses say workplace Wi-Fi is “business critical”

10 years ago

Blackphone Gears Up To Release Security-Focused Tablet

New release follows success of initial Blackphone smartphone earlier this year

10 years ago

IT Life: Locking Up The Whisky

Robert Doswell's favourite project was applying security to whisky maker Chivas

10 years ago

UCL Students Receive Thousands Of Spam Emails In ‘Bellogate’

Student added to mailing lists of PornHub and UKIP as email addresses are compromises in Bellogate

10 years ago

CESG Issues Updated Guidance For Government BYOD Deployments

Public sector organsations are given security and management advice for BYOD

10 years ago

Chinese Military To Bolster Cyber Defences

China's armed forces promise better cyber defences as it urges the use of more domestic software

10 years ago

Cash Machines Hacked By Cybercriminals For Free Money

Tyupkin malware spotted by Kaspersky in over 50 Eastern European cash machines before spreading worldwide

10 years ago

Facebook Plots “Anonymous” Mobile App – Report

Facebook allegedly developing a way for people to anonymously use the social network

10 years ago

Symantec Close To Company Breakup – Report

Symantec reportedly in 'advanced talks' about a breakup of the company into two separate organisations

10 years ago

Tech Club: That Internet Of Things Thing

Is your organisation prepared for the opportunities and challenges that IoT will bring? Come to our next gathering and let…

10 years ago

Yahoo Denies Server Hack Was Related To Shellshock

Yahoo says servers were exploited using another vulnerability and no data was stolen

10 years ago

First ‘Online Murder’ Could Happen By The End Of The Year

The Internet of Things could turn out to be a killer, Europol report warns

10 years ago

What Security Lessons Did We Learn From The JP Morgan Chase & Co Breach?

We may still see piggyback attacks where cybercriminals launch social engineering attacks

10 years ago

Google Threatened With $100 Million Lawsuit Over Hacked Celebrity Pictures

The impact of the hacked Apple iCloud images spreads to Google, but is the search giant actually responsible?

10 years ago