Security

Eric Cole: A Good Cyber Offence Is Not The Best Cyber Defence

Dr Eric Cole, who has just joined InfoSec Hall Of Fame, warns that most countries are not ready for cyber…

11 years ago

Secret Social Network To Hit UK Shores

Privacy affectionados celebrate after 'Secret', the anonymous social network, prepares for UK launch

11 years ago

Google To Stop Scanning Student Gmail Accounts For Adverts

Google pledges not to scan educational Gmail accounts for advert information following scrutiny

11 years ago

Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version 1.0

The OS that helped Edward Snowden communicate with journalists is ready for prime time

11 years ago

Eircom Restores Webmail Service After ‘Intrusion’

Irish ISP urges users to change their passwords but says there is no evidence of data breach following shut down

11 years ago

InfoSec 2014: 17 Percent Of All Thefts In The UK Threaten Victim Privacy

According to police records, 162,932 items of computing and communications equipment were stolen in the UK in the past year

11 years ago

Almost All Mobile Malware Targets Android Says F-Secure

More than 99 percent of new mobile malware targets Android, but someone, somewhere is still targeting Symbian

11 years ago

Traffic Systems Vulnerable To Hackers Wanting To Cause Road Chaos

Systems across the UK could be abused by hackers to cause delays or even accidents, claims researcher

11 years ago

InfoSec 2014: High-Tech Bridge Democratises Access To Ethical Hacking

The information security market is not fair towards SMBs, says CEO Ilia Kolochenko

11 years ago

France Getting Battered By DDoS Attacks

France is seeing massive amounts of DDoS traffic going through its networks, thanks to sizeable hits on the country's popular…

11 years ago

Businesses Should Get Ethical With Security

Organisations care way too much about money and not enough about ethics when it comes to people's security, says Tom…

11 years ago

Target Hires New CIO After Data Breach

Target appoints a veteran CIO to oversee security and technology at the giant US retailer

11 years ago

InfoSec 2014: Cost Of Serious Security Breaches Almost Doubles In A Year

The number of serious cyber security incidents in the UK goes down in 2014, but the cost of the consequences…

11 years ago

Class Action Plaintiffs Back Mt. Gox Rescue Plan

Former Mt. Gox customers have agreed to settle two class-action lawsuits in exchange for a stake in a revived exchange…

11 years ago

Technology Strategy Board Gives Almost £400,000 To Security Start-Ups

Seven cyber security companies located in the Severn Valley will receive generous grants from the UK government

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers $10,000 Bounty For Bugs In New SSL Certificate Library

In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts

11 years ago

Android Wallpaper Apps Secretly Mine Bitcoins

Google has removed five smartphone wallpaper applications that used handset computing power to produce digital currency

11 years ago

US Judge Orders Microsoft To Hand Over Dublin Data To Cops

Microsoft tries to fight US government attempts to get data held on foreign soil, but fails

11 years ago

Alert Logic Chooses Cardiff For EMEA Security Operations Hub

The Houston-based security services firm is to hire more than 100 staff and establish a security monitoring centre and data…

11 years ago

Fresh Internet Explorer Zero-Day Used In Targeted Attacks

'Operation Clandestine Fox' attacks take advantage of a fresh Internet Explorer vulnerability

11 years ago

Industry Leaders Respond To ‘Heartbleed’ Crisis With Infrastructure Drive

Companies including Amazon, Cisco and Google are contributing to an initiative that will target underfunded open source projects such as…

11 years ago

(ISC)2: Who Needs A Cyber Forensics Certificate?

Adrian Davis, managing director for EMEA at (ISC)2, talks about the emerging field of cyber forensics

11 years ago

Cyber Crime Thought To Be Behind Fraud Jump In UK

Violent crime is going down as fraud continues to rise, with digital crime likely to blame

11 years ago

Researchers Able To Intercept Unencrypted Viber Data

A lack of encryption puts Viber images, videos and location data at risk, warns University of New Haven

11 years ago

Prize Quiz: Win An iPad Air

We had such a huge response to our last prize quiz so we've got hold of another iPad Air to…

11 years ago

Police Warn Of Scam Email From ‘Euromillions Winner’

City of London Police say scammers pretending to be Neil Trotter, winner of £107.9m on the Euromillions

11 years ago

Google To Refund Users Who Bought ‘Virus Shield’ Fake Android Anti-Virus App

Less-than-proud Virus Shield owners are to be refunded and given a $5 Google Play voucher

11 years ago

Cisco Announces Managed Security Service

Cisco's Managed Threat Defence service will remotely monitor enterprise networks and identify threats based on Hadoop 2.0-based predictive analytics

11 years ago

China Looks To Protect XP Systems

The Chinese government is investigating security tools for its Windows XP systems, while it negotiates with Microsoft over upgrade pricing

11 years ago