Security

Vivaldi: A Privacy-Friendly Social Network Opens For Business

Co-founder of Opera Software Jon von Tetzchner unveils his latest project in Iceland

11 years ago

Cryptography Legend Quisquater: No Proof I Was Targeted By NSA Or GCHQ

Jean-Jacques Quisquater tells TechWeek media reports his machine was hacked by GCHQ or NSA snoops were "premature"

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hits eBay And PayPal

Hacking crew appears to carry out hit on DNS infrastructure serving eBay-owned sites

11 years ago

Accellion Kiteworks Improves Security For Mobile Workers

Kiteworks offers the same user experience across all devices, and uses a three-tier architecture for improved security

11 years ago

Pwn2Own Gets ‘Unicorn’ Hacking Category

The Exploit Unicorn category will require competitors to bypass multiple levels of security on multiple technologies

11 years ago

BTC China Exchange Resumes Taking Deposits In Yuan

The largest Bitcoin exchange in the world says the memo banning virtual currency transactions was misunderstood

11 years ago

US Navy Cybersecurity Chief Michael Rogers To Be New Head Of NSA

Vice-Admiral Michael Rogers nominated by President Obama to take NSA role

11 years ago

Yahoo Mail Passwords Breached In ‘Co-ordinated Attack’

Yahoo admits its Yahoo Mail service was breached by a co-ordinated attack using passwords gathered from elsewhere

11 years ago

Larry Ellison: The NSA Can’t Get Into Our Databases

Oracle CEO claims the database software “hasn't been broken into for a couple of decades”

11 years ago

Chancellor Merkel Warns UK And US On Surveillance

Merkel says snooping “sows distrust” amongst allies in address to German parliament

11 years ago

GoDaddy And PayPal Blamed In Twitter Handle Extortion

GoDaddy admits it was duped during extortion attempt to get @N Twitter handle, but PayPal denies it gave away any…

11 years ago

Dutch Court Overturns ‘Ineffective’ Pirate Bay Ban

The 'ineffective' ban on the Pirate Bay website has been overturned by a Dutch Court

11 years ago

Head Of GCHQ Sir Iain Lobban To Leave By The End Of 2014

The Foreign Office says move not connected to criticism of data collection practices

11 years ago

Cross-Platform Java Malware Used In DDoS Attacks

Kaspersky finds malware targeting unnamed bulk email service

11 years ago

SpyEye Banking Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty

Russian national pleads guilty to creating and spreading the SpyEye malware with partner in crime

11 years ago

US Companies Allowed To Publish NSA Data Request Numbers

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn win a battle against the NSA, but the war is far from over

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ Spy On Targets Using Leaky Mobile Apps

Angry Birds likely one of many mobile apps being exploited by the NSA and GCHQ in their mass spying efforts

11 years ago

Five Bulgarians Arrested After Stealing UK Bank Data

More arrests said to be on the way as five caught red handed in Poland

11 years ago

Bletchley Park Trust Accused Of Isolating National Museum Of Computing

Bletchley Park Trust has been accused of freezing out the National Museum of Computing by excluding it from tours

11 years ago

Technical Glitch Cripples US Federal Courts

The FBI says Friday’s downtime was caused by a technical issue, while the European Cyber Army takes credit for DDoS

11 years ago

Hackers Infiltrate Israeli Ministry Of Defence

Researchers say Israel's Civil Administration computer was infected with Xtreme RAT malware

11 years ago

Don’t Blame Users For Poor Passwords

'123456' may be a crap password, but Sean Michael Kerner says the blame lies with the security systems that allow…

11 years ago

FBI Warns US Retailers To Expect Future Cyber Attacks

Warning comes in the wake in massive hack of Target customer data

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Attacks CNN

The news network’s blogs, Twitter and Facebook accounts were all hacked by the SEA

11 years ago

Millions Of Email Passwords Stolen In Germany

Germany's federal security bureau (BSI) warns 16 million Germans may have had passwords to online services stolen

11 years ago

Shape Emerges With Polymorphic Cyber Defence

Shape Security launches with new security technology designed to stump hackers with a constantly moving target

11 years ago

Panda Merges Cloud Cleaner Into RMM Platform

Panda Security's Cloud Platform can now tackle the latest-generation viruses and attacks

11 years ago

Microsoft Will Let Users Choose Where Data Is Stored

In the wake of the NSA spying scandal, Microsoft says it will allow foreign users to store their data outside…

11 years ago

Davos: Two-Year Investigation Into Future Of The Internet Announced

Commission chair Carl Bildt says open and flexible model of the Internet increasingly under attack

11 years ago

Verizon’s Transparency Report Shows Another Rise In US Data Requests

Verizon reveals the masses of data requests it receives from the US government and law enforcement

11 years ago