Security

Silent Circle Raises $30 Million In Funding, Moves To Switzerland

The company says the money will help bring Blackphone to the masses

10 years ago

Secure Messaging App PQChat Promises ‘Future Proof’ Encryption

PQChat retains minimal user information, auto-deletes messages and is protected even from quantum computing techniques

10 years ago

Chinese Authorities Order Physical Checks Of Government Computers

Chinese engineers will begin inspecting computer hardware used in government offices to ensure it can keep sensitive data safe

10 years ago

Tech Titans Withdraw Support For NSA Reform Bill

Tech giants object to a US government reform bill of the NSA, saying the measures do not go far enough

10 years ago

Google’s Nest Recall Notice Reveals 440,000 Faulty Fire Alarms

US government body reveals 440,000 Nest fire alarms and CO2 detectors were affected by a fault reported in April

10 years ago

Cisco Seeks To Up Anti-Malware Game With ThreatGRID Bid

Cisco wants to get better at blocking zero-day threats

10 years ago

eBay Asks 128 Million Customers To Change Their Passwords After Hack

The company says hackers accessed personal details and encrypted passwords, but no financial data was compromised

10 years ago

Leaked Source Code Causes Explosion In Popularity Of ‘iBanking’ Malware

The sophisticated malware strain usually sold for $5,000 suddenly becomes free

10 years ago

US Government Says Utility System Hacked

Unnamed utility supplier and control system managing a mechanical device both hacked, according to official US security body

10 years ago

Facebook Makes Malware Removal Tools Free For Users

Infected users will be alerted when they're on the network and given the option to remove the malware with F-Secure…

10 years ago

Silent Text 2 Adds Better Encryption For Secure Messaging

Silent Text 2 brings range of improvements to secure messaging app for Silent Circle subscribers

11 years ago

No More Windows 8 For The Chinese Government

Chinese authorities ban Windows 8 in government offices, to avoid the ‘end of support’ dilemma they are facing with Windows…

11 years ago

German Government Contract Winners Will Have To Denounce The NSA

Participants in public sector procurement will have to promise not to cooperate with foreign intelligence agencies

11 years ago

TechWeek Readers Prefer Dedicated Hardware To Cloud

Sensitive data shouldn't be on shared hardware in the cloud, TechWeek readers tell us. Next question - which country has…

11 years ago

TypePad Blames Large DDoS For Blog Outages

Second time in a month TypePad says DDoS attacks causing outages across blog platform

11 years ago

China Urges US To Drop Cyber Espionage Charges

Five charged for cyber espionage in China, leading to outrage and claims the US is the one doing the hacking

11 years ago

International Police Forces Arrest 80 Members Of The BlackShades Malware Gang

UK officers make 17 arrests in the first operation of its kind

11 years ago

Cisco’s Chambers Writes To Obama Over NSA Spying

Cisco chief executive John Chambers has written to the US president expressing his concerns over alleged NSA interceptions of US…

11 years ago

LifeLock Pulls Wallet App And Deletes Data Over Security Concerns

LifeLock takes drastic action as it fears its mobile wallet isn't compliant with payment card industry regulations

11 years ago

Thousands Of Network Devices Open To Password Theft

Brocade and other manufacturers' network devices said to be vulnerable to SNMP attacks that could leak passwords, researchers claim

11 years ago

Minnesota Passes Smartphone Kill-Switch Legislation

Minnesota becomes the first US state to require manufacturers to offer kill switch for all smartphones sold

11 years ago

Samsung Knox Gets US Military Approval

US Department of Defense allows Samsung Knox-protected Galaxy S4s to be used on military networks

11 years ago

Mutiny At Bitcoin Foundation Over New Director Brock Pierce

At least ten foundation members want to see former child star and Bitcoin investor removed from the board

11 years ago

Poland Launches Vein Pattern Recognition ATMs

The Hitachi-equipped ATMs will allow users to withdraw cash without a bank card

11 years ago

Adobe Fixes Day-Long Creative Cloud Login Outage

Adobe has restored a log-in problem that prevented millions of customers from using their software normally for more than 24…

11 years ago

The Impact Of Heartbleed On Open Source Security

Thanks to Heartbleed open source software will be better engineered and more secure, says Steve Nice, CTO at Reconnix

11 years ago

Encrypted Web Traffic Spiked Since Snowden Leaks

Surveillance revelations appear to lead to big jump in SSL web encryption across the world

11 years ago

Cisco Upset By Images Of NSA Tampering With Networking Kit

Cisco wants governments to stop interfering with its kit

11 years ago

Mozilla Reluctantly Adopts Digital Rights Management

Mozilla says it has no choice if it wants to keep its user base, while the user base calls adoption…

11 years ago