Security

Microsoft Turns On Multifactor Authentication For Office 365

To minimise the risk of breaches, Microsoft turns on multifactor authentication for the user base of Office 365

11 years ago

Tooling Up To Beat Malware

No malware is going to catch Wayne Rash napping. But it takes constant vigilance to keep your system clean, he…

11 years ago

Microsoft Claims ‘System Error’ Blocks Chinese Bing Search Results

Microsoft denies censoring its Chinese language search results, but blames a 'system error' for Bing omissions

11 years ago

Malicious Flappy Bird Clones Fly Around Dodgy App Stores

Flappy Bird clones do nasty things to people's phones

11 years ago

UK Cybersecurity Attitudes ‘Lagging Behind’ US Says BT Survey

Worldwide BT survey finds UK business leaders far less concerned with cybersecurity than other nations

11 years ago

Bitcoin Battered By DoS Attacks

Attackers take advantage of a weakness in the cryptocurrency protocol known as “transaction malleability” and a number of exchanges suspend…

11 years ago

Google Asks Congress To Revise Privacy Laws

Google asks US Congress to revise American privacy laws and takes part in "The Day We Fight Back" campaign, in…

11 years ago

Microsoft Surprises With IE Patch Tuesday Update

Microsoft springs a surprise and decides to include a massive IE update in its Patch Tuesday release. Meanwhile, Adob e…

11 years ago

PayPal President Has Credit Card Hacked

Online payments chief had card ‘skimmed’ whilst in the UK - and says it wouldn't have happened if we all…

11 years ago

America’s Chip And Pin Roll-Out Could Be Expensive

The US is ten years behind Europe on installing Chip and PIN security for credit cards. Wayne Rash says it's…

11 years ago

CloudFlare: Biggest DDoS Ever Hits Europe

DDoS weighing in at nearly 400Gbps targets unnamed CloudFlare customer in Europe, as attackers use NTP to amplify attack

11 years ago

Mac Users Hit By Bitcoin-Stealing Trojan

A bitcoin-stealing Mac OS X Trojan has been reported in the wild, disguised as a payments application

11 years ago

The Mask: One Of The Sneakiest Government Malware Campaigns Ever Uncovered

Super-smart attacks targeting various government and activist bodies in Morocco, France, Spain and the UK

11 years ago

Bitcoin In Crisis: Mt Gox Claims To Be Fixing Network-Wide Vulnerability

The exchange resumes currency withdrawals, but refuses to send Bitcoins to third-party wallets until further notice

11 years ago

Russian Government Says Bitcoin Is Illegal

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office says Bitcoin is used for money laundering, and should be avoided

11 years ago

Whistleblower: Barclays Customer Data Stolen And Sold For Scammers’ Use

Bank says it is looking into a report that data was stolen before being used and sold by rogue traders

11 years ago

Snowden Used Basic Web Scraping Tools In NSA Breach

Use of basic web crawlers leads to concern over the quality of the intelligence agency's security

11 years ago

Study Finds US Government Running Insecure Systems

A report compiled by a US senator has discovered serious security shortcomings in US government agencies, including weak passwords and…

11 years ago

Colossus Computer Celebrates 70th Birthday

The world's first electronic computer, first put into operation 70 years ago, was used to crack German coded messages

11 years ago

Target Hackers Snuck In Through Ventilation Vendor

Epic breach in part down to credentials stolen from Fazio Mechanical Services

11 years ago

Vince Cable Warns Of Digital Threats To Critical Infrastructure

Cable says adequate protection needed so people's quotidian existences aren't disrupted

11 years ago

Adobe Releases Urgent Update For Flash Player

Upgrade patch looks to counter “critical vulnerability” in older versions of Flash Player

11 years ago

Facebook Open Sources ‘Efficient’ Encryption Tool For Android Devs

Conceal APIs seek to make encryption done by Android apps efficient and simple

11 years ago

Snowden Leak: GCHQ Targeted Anonymous With DoS Attacks

GCHQ attacked Anonymous with DoS attacks, knocking IRC chat rooms offline, whilst scaring members away by sending warning messages

11 years ago

800,000 Orange France Customers Face Cyberattack

Details of 800,000 Orange France users hacked, leaving customers at risk of phishing attacks

11 years ago

Target Hack – The Net Spreads Wider

The Target hackers broke in through a third party. Sean Michael Kerner says this should change your security strategy

11 years ago

NHS Choices Website Typo Sends Users Into Malware Danger

Coding error added one letter to a linked domain, leading to threats affecting NHS site visitors

11 years ago

Internet Giants Reveal Secret Government Data Requests

Tens of thousands of requests were made by the FISA court in the first half of 2013

11 years ago

HP Report Spotlights Mobile Encryption Risks

Most mobile applications don't use encryption properly, posing risks for enterprise data

11 years ago

Russian Army To Feature Cyber-Defence Units By 2017

The primary purpose of the new force is to protect military installations

11 years ago