Security

Google Open Sources End-To-End Email Encryption

Open source effort should help email providers encrypt messages between one another

10 years ago

Molerats Hackers Target BBC, European Governments

A group known as Molerats has stepped up its activities against government and financial organisations in the US and Europe

10 years ago

Turkey Restores YouTube Access Following Two-Month Ban

Turkey's telecommunications regulator said it has complied with a court ruling ordering it to restore access to YouTube

10 years ago

NSA Gathers Email Images For Facial Recognition

The NSA has reportedly stockpiled a huge database of 'facial recognition quality' images from intercepted Internet communications to help build…

10 years ago

A 2 Week Deadline To Clean Zeus And Cryptolocker. Really?

Police say sers have two weeks to rid their machines of Cryptolocker and Zeus Gameover. That means the crooks are…

10 years ago

Global Police Disrupt Cryptolocker, Finger Alleged Mastermind

US police say they have the man behind Cryptolocker and GameOver Zeus. Victims have two weeks to clean their machines

10 years ago

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested

Co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, arrested by Swedish cops after two years on the run

10 years ago

Agriculture Giant Monsanto Hacked

Monsanto says March breach saw some financial data compromised

10 years ago

Google Swamped With ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Requests

Google inundated with 12,000 requests to remove weblinks after belatedly allowing 'right to be forgotten'

10 years ago

Lookout App Promises ‘Selfie’ Of Mobile Thieves

Thieves beware, as a new app targets the sticky fingered when they purloin people's precious mobile phones

10 years ago

Google Belatedly Offers Right To Be Forgotten Option

Google offers a form for people seeking to remove search results about themselves

10 years ago

Footwear Chain Office Hacked, Customer Data Compromised

The attackers gained access to names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and passwords, which were apparently stored unencrypted

10 years ago

EE Offers MobileIron Cloud EMM Platform To SMB Customers

EE offers MobileIron tools to administrators to help them manage corporate and personal devices on SMB networks

10 years ago

Iran Spies ‘Using Facebook To Snoop On US Government’

'Newscaster' operation seeks to dupe government personnel out of passwords, says cyber intelligence firm

10 years ago

TrueCrypt Disk Encryption ‘Death’ A Mystery

Website post says the tool may no longer be secure for usage, amidst rumours of a legal threat

10 years ago

LulzSec’s Sabu Avoids Prison Following FBI Cooperation

Hector Monsegur given a year's supervision, avoiding a lengthy jail term

10 years ago

Spotify Breach Hits Android Users

Spotify tells a number of customers to change passwords and Android users will have to upgrade following a breach

10 years ago

Torrentz.eu Back Online After Defying UK Police

Polish domain name registrar complies with the takedown request, then changes its mind

10 years ago

China Responds To Hacking Allegations With More Hacking Allegations

“You run the NSA, and you have the nerve to accuse us of spying?”

10 years ago

Report: China Pressures Domestic Banks To Replace IBM Servers

The Chinese government is investigating the security of IBM servers in the country's ongoing tensions with the US

10 years ago

Avast Closes Forum As Security Company Hacked

Avast says customers will need to change their passwords following forum attack

10 years ago

LulzSec ‘Leader’ Sabu Helped Feds Stop 300 Attacks

Hector Monsegur provided significant help in tracking down members of hacktivist groups and cyber criminals, court documents show

10 years ago

UK Police Close Filesharing Search Engine FileCrop

Visitors to FileCrop will now get a message from the police, telling them the site is under investigation

10 years ago

US Considers Blocking Chinese From Major Security Conferences

Chinese might not be allowed at Def Con or BlackHat, following US charges against PLA members

10 years ago

eBay Faces Probes Over Data Breach

The ICO and three US states are investigating eBay over its handling of a data breach that exposed the details…

10 years ago

Pro-Russian Hackers Attack Central Election Commission Of Ukraine

CyberBerkut steals a huge archive of emails three days before the elections, sends it to the media agencies

10 years ago

NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes Government Vote

Legislation to curb the snooping activities of the NSA passes US vote, but this result pleases no one

10 years ago

Microsoft Challenges FBI Over A Customer Data Request

The company is ready to go to great lengths to protect customer data, as long as these customers buy products…

10 years ago

BlackBerry Details Secure Vision For IoT With ‘Project Ion’ M2M Platform

BlackBerry hopes to establish itself as IoT network leader as recovery continues

10 years ago

Facebook Reacts To Privacy Fears With Tightened Settings

Noob users of Facebook receive a privacy policy change that will limit their first postings to the audience they want…

10 years ago