Security

Tech Titans Meet Obama To Urge NSA Surveillance Reform

Obama faces the dream team of Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt and Tim Cook

11 years ago

BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice

BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence

11 years ago

Cisco: Snowden Leak Hit Chinese Sales ‘Unfairly’

Questions about Cisco's role in NSA surveillance have hit Cisco's sales unfairly, the UK director of security tells TechWeek

11 years ago

Big Android Botnet Sends SMS Messages To China

South Korean phones send stolen messages to Chinese email addresses

11 years ago

CloudLock Targets Google Apps Security Issues

CloudLock's free tool is designed to help Google Apps administrators track user activity within a domain to limit security risks

11 years ago

Home Office Leaks Details Of More Than 1,500 Illegal Immigrants

The confidential information was visible on the Home Office website for two weeks

11 years ago

French Intelligence Granted More Snooping Powers Than NSA

France complains of NSA surveillance - but has given French intelligence services more powers to monitor calls and emails

11 years ago

Cloud Databases: Another Worrying Attack Vector

Cloud databases are worrying things from a security perspective, warns Tom Brewster

11 years ago

Phishing Crook Jailed Over Attempts To Steal £1.5m From Students

Man sentenced to three years and nine months after he tried to steal vast sums from hundreds of victims

11 years ago

Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Lawsuit

Google will argue in a jurisdiction hearing today that privacy lawsuits over alleged tracking of mobile and desktop users' browsing…

11 years ago

Financial Group Targets IT Security Risks

A group of financial organisations has highlighted the IT security risks that come with the use of third-party suppliers

11 years ago

CSA, SAFECode Publish Cloud App Security Guidance

The new guidance is aimed at helping developers secure their cloud deployments in a constantly changing threat landscape

11 years ago

Microsoft Predicts US Government Will Erode IT Industry Security Efforts

Government activities, cloud disruptions and the World Cup are to be major sources of security problems in 2015, according to…

11 years ago

IBM Invention Protects Mobile Devices

IBM's patent improves the security of cloud applications for mobile devices

11 years ago

Dell World 2013: Dell EMM Is More Than Just MDM

Dell software boss John Swainsom promises EMM will pretty much do everything

11 years ago

Cyber-Attack Targets Adobe Reader And Windows XP

Adobe Reader users are being targeted by a cyber-attack that dodges sandboxes

11 years ago

NSA Follows You With Google’s Cookie Trail

The NSA is tracking you with Google cookies. Sean Michael Kerner is not surprised

11 years ago

Pro Poker Player Left Irate After Laptop Infected With Trojan

Jens Kyllönen furious at lack of police action after his laptop mysteriously gets infected during the European Poker Tour in…

11 years ago

Government Announces Schemes To Secure Cyber Supply Chain

Maude says security kitemark to be mandated across government when procuring, whilst a new scheme will give suppliers a boost…

11 years ago

Advanced Android Malware Seen Calling Premium Rate Numbers

New malware strain is capable of calling premium rate numbers, rather than just texting them

11 years ago

European Foreign Ministries Breached By Chinese Hackers

Attackers used information on the Syrian crisis as bait around the time of the G20 meeting in Russia

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers Firefox 26 With Secure Plug-Ins

Mozilla releases the new version of its open-source web browser that comes with more secure plug-ins

11 years ago

The UK Government Is Already Policing The Internet

The new intellectual property crime unit PIPCU uses threats, not due process, to get copyright-infringing domains off the Internet

11 years ago

CyanogenMod’s 10m Users Get Encrypted Text

Moxie Marlinspike's Whisper Systems brings user-friendly, end-to-end text encryption to the open source mobile OS

11 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 11 Fixes, One Gap

Microsoft's latest patch bundle closes some serious gaps - while one zero-day flaw remains open

11 years ago

Privacy Pros Delight At International Surveillance Malware Pact

Digital surveillance and state-sponsored malware are added to the Wassenaar Arrangement on controlling exports

11 years ago

Microsoft ‘Telepathwords’ Tool Aims To Boost Password Strength

Microsoft's password-guessing tool is designed to help users create stronger passwords

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ Targets World Of Warcraft And Xbox Live – Snowden

British and US agents search video games for intelligence, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden

11 years ago

New UK Police Unit Helped Close 40 Pirate Websites

PIPCU is fighting against copyright infringement by revoking domain names and putting pressure on advertisers, all without going to court

11 years ago

Google And Facebook: Back Off Government, Snooping Is Our Business!

How can Facebook and Google tell the US government to limit surveillance, and then ask for more scope for snoop…

11 years ago