Security

RSA 2014: RSA Chief Coviello Tries To Answer $10m Question Over NSA

Coviello kicks off the PR push after claims of NSA payoff, whilst anti-surveillance activist Bruce Schneier appears to be sympathising…

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Exchange Goes Offline

Several reports claim the Tokyo-based company will file for bankruptcy

11 years ago

RSA 2014: Cisco Open Sources App Security Tools

Snort community gets a boost thanks to OpenAppID open sourcing

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Quits Bitcoin Foundation

CEO Mark Karpeles resigns from the Foundation’s board, Mt Gox still doesn’t transfer bitcoins into third-party wallets

11 years ago

iOS And Mac Security Flaw Opened Hole For Snoops

Apple patches serious SSL weakness in iOS, but security researchers warn Mac OS X users are affected too

11 years ago

Study Finds Companies Lack Effective BYOD Security Measures

Most companies polled in the study said they were not strengthening their BYOD security measures in spite of recent high-profile…

11 years ago

FireEye Discovers Flash Exploit Used To Target Non-Profits

‘Operation Greedy Wonk’ has a special interest in US organisations dealing with foreign policy, defence and socio-cultural issues

11 years ago

Two Fifths Of Businesses Are Confused By Data Management Legislation

Six Degrees Group claims people put their trust in managed data service providers

11 years ago

University Of Maryland Breach Leaks Over 300k Records

Law enforcement brought in after serious breach at a US university

11 years ago

Wurm MMORPG Offers €10k Bounty For DDoS Attacker Info

Reward offered as Wurm struggles to come back online

11 years ago

IBM Security Looks To Cyber Defence With New Offerings

IBM's new security solutions to help businesses defend against internal and external cyber attacks

11 years ago

Home Tech Vulnerabilities Could Be Used To Set Houses On Fire

Even the US government is warning about weaknesses in Belkin WeMo Home Automation kit

11 years ago

Care.data: Government’s Medical Database Plans Delayed

Privacy groups pleased government has recognised need for transparency

11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S5 To Include Fingerprint Reader – Report

The forthcoming Samsung flagship smartphone will reportedly include a fingerprint reader

11 years ago

Snowden Leak: NSA And GCHQ Targeted WikiLeaks And Pirate Bay

WikiLeaks website visitors have their IP addresses scooped up by British snoops, fresh leaks show

11 years ago

Mt Gox Ready To Roll Again As Bitcoin Bug Fixed

Flaw that left exchanges open to denial of service attacks appears to be fixed, for Mt Gox at least

11 years ago

Forbes Users Hit By Syrian Electronic Army Attack

Details of over one million users stolen in latest anti-US hack

11 years ago

South Korean Banks Fined £3,400 After Epic January Data Breach

KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and NongHyup Card will not be able to issue credit cards for the next three…

11 years ago

Angela Merkel Proposes Secure European Communications Network

Pan-European network would help improve data security following recent NSA snooping allegations

11 years ago

Hackers Steal Kickstarter Passwords

Crowdfunding site says only two customer accounts have been toyed with after potentially nightmarish breach

11 years ago

Google Buys Sound Wave Authentication Firm SlickLogin

Google acquires login tech that uses sound waves and smartphones to detect users

11 years ago

Microsoft Boosts Cloud-Based Anti-Spam Tools

Microsoft has added better tools for helping enterprises to fight junk mail to its cloud-based Exchange Online Protection

11 years ago

FIDO Standard Aims To Eliminate Passwords

The FIDO industry group has released its final technical specification, in an effort to push the industry toward more advanced…

11 years ago

Silk Road 2.0 Hacked, £1.5 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Stolen

Attackers have used the ‘transaction malleability’ flaw which prompted Mt Gox exchange to stop withdrawals a few days ago

11 years ago

Internet Explorer Exposed By New Zero-Day Flaw

A previously unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being exploited to attack users, but is a foreign government to blame?

11 years ago

IT Life: Security Needs Analytics

James Stevenson was nearly a policeman, but ended up in Blue Coat - using analytics to stop cyber-crime

11 years ago

Tesco Customers’ Passwords Stolen And Posted Online

Thousands of online customers have their accounts deactivated after user details were leaked and posted

11 years ago

Bots Make Up Majority Of Website Traffic

A study from Incapsula claims that over 60 percent of all website traffic is not actually from humans, but rather…

11 years ago

Police Shut Down Dark Web Drug Site Utopia And Arrest Five

Dutch law enforcement announce the arrest of five individuals in investigation into Utopia and Black Market Reloaded

11 years ago

Hacking Team Spyware ‘Hits Ethiopian Journalists’

"Lawful intercept" tech allegedly used in attacks on Ethiopian journalists, as civil rights activists fret about abuse of the software

11 years ago