Security

How Governments Will Shape Data Centres

Governments' energy policies and surveillance activities will unintentionally shape our data centres, says Peter Judge

11 years ago

Can European Telcos Protect Customers From The NSA?

European telcos could ease customers' fear of US-based surveillance, if they can build the right services, says Birger Steen

11 years ago

Millions Of Snapchat Usernames And Phone Numbers ‘Leaked’

Hackers claim they wanted to show up Snapchat security weakness

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype Social Pages And Blog

Hackers leave anti-NSA spying messages across Microsoft-run accounts

11 years ago

Apple Denies NSA Backdoor For iPhone

Apple denies it created a backdoor to allow the NSA to spy on the iPhone

11 years ago

Cyber-Attackers To Target Internet Of Things

Attackers will increasingly target devices that make up the Internet of things during 2014, experts warn

11 years ago

Crooks Rob Cash Machines Via USB

Cash machines running Windows XP attacked, researchers at the Chaos Communication Congress say

11 years ago

Report: NSA ‘Uses Vulnerabilities To Exploit Networking Gear’

The US' National Security Agency has an internal list of security vulnerabilities that it uses to place surveillance code into…

11 years ago

Researchers: Cryptolocker ‘Took In Millions Of Pounds’

Dell Secureworks has estimated that the Cryptolocker botnet infected at least 200,000 systems in its first 100 days and is…

11 years ago

Target Reassures Customers Over Security Following Massive Breach

US retailer Target has disclosed that the credit card PIN numbers taken in the breach were encrypted

11 years ago

NSA ‘Intercepted PC Shipments To Install Malware’

Spy agency said to have diverted targets' PC orders to "load stations"

11 years ago

BBC Suffers Christmas Server Breach

Access to BBC ftp server said to have been sold on underground forums

11 years ago

Google Secures Gmail Images

Gmail users will no longer have to click to display images in emails, due to a new security feature

11 years ago

Alan Turing Granted Posthumous Royal Pardon

Codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing is granted a pardon 61 years after he died

11 years ago

Declassified Documents Prove 9/11 Led To Mass NSA Surveillance

Fear of another Al-Qaeda attack kept the intelligence agencies collecting ever increasing amounts of data

11 years ago

Hackers Release Evasi0n7 iOS 7 Jailbreak

Evad3rs release new version of Evasi0n, but says don't use it for piracy

11 years ago

RSA Denies Taking $10m NSA Bribe To Install Crypto Backdoor

RSA denies the NSA paid it to ship a deliberately weakened encryption tool to customers

11 years ago

AT&T Follows Verizon In Transparency Report Pledge

AT&T to publish first transparency report next year but says US government should be more open

11 years ago

Relax – Credit Cards Cover Commerce Breaches

Check your Christmas credit card bills, don't be scared of security breaches, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

ZeroAccess Fraudsters Fly ‘White Flag’

The cyber-crime group behind the ZeroAccess botnet appears to have given up on resuming control of its 1.3 million compromised…

11 years ago

Verizon To Publish Transparency Reports In 2014

Verizon to publish list of law enforcement requests twice a year, but says its hands are tied on security demands

11 years ago

IT Life: Sharing Data Makes For Security

for Barry Shteiman, security is all about people sharing information to keep each other secure

11 years ago

Global Bug Bounty Scheme Urged To Tackle Cyber Crime

A new study suggests that all software companies should buy critical code flaws to close cyber-crime vulnerabilities

11 years ago

ICO Publishes Privacy Guidelines For App Developers

Have a clear privacy policy or risk alienating users, warns the data protection watchdog

11 years ago

Blue Coat Buys Norwegian Sandboxing Experts Norman Shark

Half of Norman Shark technology has already been integrated into Blue Coat products

11 years ago

US Retailer Target Investigating Massive Credit Card Breach

As many as 40 million credit cards potentially compromised as Target brings in law enforcement

11 years ago

NSA Slapped By Courts, IT Firms And Obama’s Advisors

The US government will ignore much that Obama's advisors ask for, says Wayne Rash, but some things will change

11 years ago

Washington Post Hackers Steal Passwords

Washington Post gets hacked again and China is the chief suspect

11 years ago

Bruce Schneier Leaves BT As Surveillance ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Denied

Schneier isn't leaving because of alleged BT connections with GCHQ spying, as "conspiracy theories" are shrugged off by the telecoms…

11 years ago