Security

Syrian Malware Team Thought To Be Behind BlackWorm RAT

A lesser-known group of pro-government hackers is pushing sophisticated malware

10 years ago

Surveillance Protesters Picket GCHQ

Britain's top secret eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, faces a weekend of protests by privacy campaigners

10 years ago

Google Verifies The Security Of Its Cloud Services

The company begins publishing its security certificates and audits online

10 years ago

US Banks Targeted In ‘Co-Ordinated’ Cyber Attacks – FBI Investigates

The FBI and Secret Service investigate reports that a number US banks suffered co-ordinated cyber attacks

10 years ago

Verizon Touts QR Code Login As Password Replacement

The end of passwords and usernames for authentication? Quite possibly, at least according to Verizon

10 years ago

ICO Fines The Ministry Of Justice £180,000 For Prison Data Breaches

Two prisons failed to encrypt their data because nobody told them how

10 years ago

Developers Release ‘Unofficial’ Windows XP Service Packs

An independent developer is finalising 'Unofficial Service Pack 4', the latest of several projects to continue supporting Windows XP beyond…

10 years ago

Sony Gaming Network Hit By DDoS Attack

Sony's PlayStation Network was one of several online gaming networks taken offline over the weekend by denial-of-service attacks - accompanied…

10 years ago

Tor Is Being Kept Safe By Dissenting GCHQ And NSA Agents, Claims Project Director

Apparently a few of the government spies want to keep Tor anonymous and secure

10 years ago

UPS Hacked, Customer Financial Data Could Be Compromised

The world’s largest package-shipping company says it found malware at 51 retail outlets in the US

10 years ago

GCHQ Launches National Hacker Competition

The participants will have to protect networks against a fictional cyber-terrorist group called the Flag Day Associates

10 years ago

Traffic Lights Vulnerable To Hack, Researchers Warns

Its the Italian Job all over again, as a researcher claims that modern traffic lights are vulnerable to hack

10 years ago

UK Government Spends Another £1.6M On Hypercat Wireless Project

HyperCat wants to link together various connectivity standards for the Internet of Things

10 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Partners London Police To Tackle Cyber Crime

Kaspersky Lab to help train the City of London Police on how to tackle the growing cybercrime menace

10 years ago

Hacked US Hospital Operator Thought To Be Victim Of Heartbleed

TrustedSec says hackers got into Community Health Systems database through unpatched Juniper equipement

10 years ago

Samsung Fined For Alleged American Porky Pie

Samsung dips into pocket change for paltry fine for “misleading” resellers to the US government

10 years ago

US Nuclear Watchdog Hacked Three Times In Three Years

NRC says it conducts regular security training sessions, but its employees are still tempted by phishing emails

10 years ago

GCHQ Is Mapping Open TCP Ports Across Whole Countries

The reconnaissance operation codenamed ‘Hacienda’ supplies the agency with some of the information needed to compromise systems

10 years ago

Home Office Fined £220m In e-Borders Contract Dispute

UK taxpayers must pay hundreds of millions to Raytheon as a result of the termination of e-Borders, a tribunal has…

10 years ago

US Healthcare Provider Hacked, 4.5 Million Patient Records Stolen

Mandiant suspects the involvement of the Chinese hackers

10 years ago

Syrian Malware Is On The Rise, Warns Kaspersky

As the civil war in Syria enters its fourth year, cyber warfare shows no sign of abating

10 years ago

Julian Assange Is Planning To Leave The Embassy Of Ecuador

Assange says he's ready to get out of the embassy... but he's not handing himself in and the UK is…

10 years ago

US Security Panel Approves IBM Server Sale To Lenovo

A US government review has given the go-ahead for the $2.3bn transaction, which could now conclude by the end of…

10 years ago

Microsoft Pulls Buggy Update After ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ Reports

Microsoft has withdrawn one of its Patch Teusday updates from last week after users reported it caused system crashes

10 years ago

Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability in Safari

Apple updates its Safari web browser, fixing a multiple memory compression issue

10 years ago

Apple Selects China Telecom Data Centres To Store iCloud Data

Apple begins storing the personal data of Chinese users on servers in mainland China

10 years ago

Android Factory Reset Does Not Erase Data, Warn Researchers

Data from a pre-owned device can be easily recovered using free software

10 years ago

Free ‘UnTRUST’ Tool Promises To Protect Against iOS Backdoor

Digital forensics firm Stroz Freidberg says it has verified the existence of an iOS backdoor and has issued advice and…

10 years ago

Kaspersky Launches Free Android Vulnerability Scanner

Kaspersky Fake ID Scanner looks for familiar bugs like Heartbleed, MasterKey and FakeID

10 years ago

US Supermarket Chain SuperValu Suspects Hackers Stole Customer Data

The retail giant claims there’s no reason to panic after admitting its Point-of-Sale systems were infected by malware

10 years ago