Security

Hacker Earns £365,000 Mining Dogecoin With NAS Boxes

This could be the most profitable illegal crypto-currency mining operation in history

10 years ago

Iraq ‘Orders Internet Shutdown In Five Provinces’

As an insurgency gathers force, the Iraqi government has reportedly widened its blocks on Internet services

10 years ago

GCHQ To Share ‘Classified’ Cyber Threat Data With Businesses

Secretive agency looking at ways of opening up to boost the UK economy

10 years ago

Domino’s Pizza Gets £24k Ransom Demand For Stolen Data

Pizza maker hit by crooks who want a ransom for details of customers' addresses and their favourite toppings

10 years ago

Apple, Cisco Back Microsoft Data Request Challenge

Major companies are lending their support to a Microsoft court challenge to the US government's request for email data stored…

10 years ago

Ask The Experts: Wearable Tech In the Office

Our readers get help from IBM on how to integrate wearable tech without being intrusive

10 years ago

Cloudfare Offers DDoS Protection For ‘Free Speech’ Websites

CloudFlare offers free anti-DDoS protection for political and artistic websites exercising 'free speech'

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Sport Technology

Do you know as much about sport technology as you do about zonal marking?

10 years ago

Technology To Play Vital Role At World Cup 2014

Technology will be more integral to the World Cup than ever before, connecting fans, organisers and even dissenters in Brazil

10 years ago

Firefox 30 Adds Security Fixes And Developer Features

Mozilla's latest web browser steps into the ring to trade punches with Chrome and Internet Explorer

10 years ago

Feedly Kills DDoS After Denying Extortion Attempt

News aggregator says it is back online after it refused to pay DDoS attackers who tried to extort them

10 years ago

HP Discover: Three CEOs Call For Tax, Surveillance Reforms

HP's Meg Whitman, Intel's Brian Krzanich and Microsoft's Satya Nadella want easier immigration, tax breaks and snooping reform

10 years ago

Twitter Users Urged To Kill Tweetdeck After Bug Alert

TweetDeck vulnerability could lead to mass account hijacking, security expert warns, but there are some protections in place for users

10 years ago

Russia Arrests Two Over Apple Ransomware

Two people finally arrested in Russia after a number of ransomware attacks on Apple devices, mainly in Australia

10 years ago

HP Discover: Atalla Offers Secure Encryption For Cloud

Secure encryption, managed in the cloud, promised by HP's Atalla, a division which secures credit card transactions

10 years ago

Evernote Knocked Out By DDoS

Cloud service went down as a result of a DDoS attack launched late yesterday

10 years ago

The Isle Of Man Embraces Virtual Currencies

Local authorities promote the island as the perfect base for Bitcoin and Litecoin operations, say they can prevent money laundering

10 years ago

UK Voters Can Now Register For Elections Online

The new online service helps citizens get on the electoral roll in minutes instead of days

10 years ago

Study: Cyber-Crime On Par With Cost Of Narcotics, Counterfeiting

A McAfee-sponsored study has found that cyber-crime cost the global economy up to $575bn last year, with the capabilities of…

10 years ago

Bank of England Sets Up Cyber Attack Test Scheme

Bank, UK government and CREST come together to create better stress tests and improved threat intelligence sharing

10 years ago

‘Guccifer’ Sentenced To Four Years In A Romanian Jail

The hacker who targeted hundreds of celebrities has been convicted

10 years ago

Turing Test ‘Beaten’ By Program Pretending To Be Teenage Boy

Test passed after 65 years, according to London event organisers, but success might be bad news for internet security

10 years ago

EU To Tighten Data Protection Controls On US Internet Giants

Reform measures agreed on Friday are to apply EU data protection laws to non-European companies that do business within the…

10 years ago

Government Launches ‘Cyber Essentials’ Security Certification

In order to be certified, an organisation has to be protected by firewalls, run anti-malware solutions and patch its applications

10 years ago

Microsoft Denies China’s Windows 8 Backdoor Claims

Microsoft angrily denies Chinese claims that Windows 8 has a backdoor for NSA survelliance

10 years ago

OpenSSL Patch Issued To Prevent Another Heartbleed

New flaws in OpenSSL detected and quickly patched to prevent another Heartbleed vulnerability

10 years ago

Vodafone Delivers On Promise To Reveal State Snooping

Vodafone carries out its threat and discloses information about government snooping requests

10 years ago

£6,700 Vertu Signature Touch Promises To Encrypt Communications

British-manufactured Vertu Signature Touch targets luxury consumers with sapphire-protected handset

10 years ago

Android Ransomware Encrypts Files, Researchers Warn

Android/Simplocker encrypts victims' content on their mobile device until a ransom is paid

10 years ago

Microsoft Wants ‘Unfinished Business’ On Surveillance Reform Sorted

Microsoft's Brad Smith outlines five changes the company wants to see from the US government to rein in surveillance

10 years ago