Security

Brit Boffs Create Hardware Scrambler To Counter Password Leaks

British company road testing a dongle designed to make password leaks an non-problem, but not all are convinced by it

11 years ago

Patch Tuesday Update Tackles Critical IE Flaw

Microsoft patches 23 vulnerabilities, including the recently revealed Internet Explorer zero-day flaw

11 years ago

Eugene Kaspersky: Russia Ukraine Cyber Attacks Probably Not State Sponsored – CeBIT

Eugene Kaspersky criticises espionage and cyber warfare, saying that countries should be working together to fight cybercrime, but reckons it's…

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Welcomes Debate On Surveillance, Warns The Fight Is Not Over

We need to encrypt everything, the whistleblower tells South by Southwest festival, over a live link from Moscow

11 years ago

Twitter Fixes Privacy Bug That Affected 93,000 Users

The flaw, picked up by a security researcher, had been active since November of last year, according to the social…

11 years ago

Yahoo Selects NSA Critic For Chief Security Role

Yahoo beefs up its security team with a new leader - Alex Stamos, one of the NSA's more vocal critics

11 years ago

Volkswagen Wants Collaboration With IT Industry And Connected Car Privacy – CeBIT 2014

Volkswagen CEO says IT and car industries must work together on connected cars and that there should be privacy protection…

11 years ago

Snowden Leaks Pit Technology Against Democracy, Says EU: CeBIT 2014

EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it is crucial that European data protection legislation is pushed through in 2014

11 years ago

Ukraine And Russia Approach Cyber Warfare

Expert suggests Ukraine would not be able to withstand a coordinated Russian attack on its infrastructure

11 years ago

Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Sitting On Bitcoins

Hackers target CEO Mark Karpeles to show outrage at Bitcoin exchange

11 years ago

Microsoft: Government Data Requests Target Individuals

Police and government data requests focused overwhelmingly on individuals over enterprises in 2013, according to Microsoft

11 years ago

Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Being Bitcoin Creator

The quiet Japanese-American man says he never admitted creating the virtual currency

11 years ago

ICO Fines British Abortion Charity £200k For Data Breach

British Pregnancy Advice Service was hacked twice in March 2012 by Anonymous hacker James Jeffrey

11 years ago

Vine Bans Sharing Of Pornographic Content

Video-sharing Twitter service looks to cut down on videos with 'explicit sexual content'

11 years ago

Privacy Groups Call For Probe Into £11.4bn Facebook WhatsApp Takeover

US regulators face calls from privacy advocates to investigate Facebook's expensive acquisition of WhatsApp

11 years ago

Europol Warns Of Public Wi-Fi Security Risks

Europol cybercrime chief says there has been an increase in attacks through public Wi-Fi connections

11 years ago

Newsweek Claims To Have Found The Creator Of Bitcoin

The publication says the 64-year old Satoshi Nakamoto from California created the virtual currency to ease international transactions

11 years ago

FreedomPop ‘Snowden Phone’ To Tackle Privacy Concerns

FreedomPop launches a fully encrypted smartphone dubbed the Privacy Phone, to counter NSA snooping

11 years ago

Prosecutors Offer To Drop Most Charges Against Ex-Anonymous Spokesperson Barrett Brown

Brown is still accused of holding credit card data but charges of linking to the data have been dismissed

11 years ago

Facebook Cracks Down On Gun Toters

Facebook to warn any gun dealers using illicit sales tactics

11 years ago

Target CIO Resigns Amid Ongoing Breach Fallout

US retailer Target is still reeling from its damaging security breach, as the CIO hands in her resignation

11 years ago

Mobile Advertising And Porn Are The Biggest Mobile Malware Threats

Malvertising is becoming a bigger mobile malware threat as online advertising becomes moe common

11 years ago

Mobile Users Coming Under Increasing Threat From China Cybercriminals

Trend Micro report reveals wide variety of tactics being developed and used by cybercriminals in China

11 years ago

Yahoo To Ditch Third Party Login ID Option

Yahoo is to insist that users login via a dedicated a Yahoo ID, and not by using Google or Facebook…

11 years ago

Bitcoin Crisis Continues With Theft, Closure And Death

Flexcoin caves after epic theft, whilst exchange Poloniex loses 12 percent of its coins and First Meta CEO is found…

11 years ago

Glaring Flaws Uncovered In Web Encryption Protocols

TLS/SSL encryption standards have a flaw which allows man-in-the-middle attacks, while the GnuTLS implementation has a long-running weakness

11 years ago

HP To Battle Google Staff In Hacking Contest

Security staff from Hewlett-Packard and Google are to compete in a web browser hacking contest

11 years ago

Nick Clegg Launches A Review Of GCHQ Accountability

Deputy Prime Minister says a universally despised intelligence agency cannot protect the country

11 years ago

Twitter ‘Accidentally Changes Users’ Passwords’

Emails were sent out mistakenly telling Twitter users to change their passwords

11 years ago

Security Service Of Ukraine Claims Politicians’ Phones Are Under Attack

The network equipment in Crimea is allegedly being used to attack mobile phones of the country’s leadership, while pro-Russian hackers…

11 years ago