Security

Yahoo To Encrypt All Traffic And Products By Early 2014

Following the NSA scandal, CEO Marissa Mayer is taking decisive measures and introducing SSL across the board

11 years ago

DNS Vulnerability And The New Gunpowder Plotters

When groups like Anonymous go on the warpath, companies' DNS services are where they may strike first, warns Chris Marrison

11 years ago

How An Adobe Flaw Let Anonymous Into The FBI

Adobe users' passwords were stolen and the FBI got hit. Sean Michael Kerner smells password reuse

11 years ago

Ransomware Scam Hits UK Small Businesses

The National Crime Agency has warned of a scam that is seeing users' files encrypted when they click on a…

11 years ago

HP Study Criticises Mobile App Security

HP finds most mobile applications access private information and lack proper security measures

11 years ago

Tech Club: ‘We’re Not Talking About Something As Straightforward As Money’

Nigel Painter, associate director at business consultancy MEMEology, thinks the government procurement frameworks are tough for a reason

11 years ago

Tech Club: ‘People Need To Focus On Making Revenue, Not Securing The Business’

David Shearmon, CEO at Cryptic, says businesses need to focus on money, and let the experts handle the security

11 years ago

Tech Club: ‘The Threat Landscape Is Too Big – You Have To Pick Your Battles’

Sat Birdi, CEO at vzInternet, says we need to protect authenticity of online transactions in order to stop fraud

11 years ago

vBulletin Forum Passwords Taken, Thousands Of Sites May be Affected

Hackers breach vBulletin site in a threat to all vBulletin-based forums

11 years ago

John McAfee To Testify About The Murder That Sent Him On The Run

McAfee is back in the public eye to clear his name

11 years ago

CSA To Secure Cloud With Software Defined Perimeter

An industry consortium seeks to defend the Cloud and launches a new security initiative

11 years ago

SMBs Unready For Data Loss And Lack Backup

Small businesses lack backup policies and don't think mobile devices contain much sensitive data, survey reveals

11 years ago

Google’s Latest Transparency Report Criticises Intelligence Agencies

Google is not allowed to reveal how much information is requested by organisations like the NSA, and it’s not happy…

11 years ago

IBM Buys Fibrelink To Boost Mobile Security

Big Blue wants to do more mobile device management with Fibrelink

11 years ago

Pwn2Own Winners Hack iPhone 5 And Samsung Galaxy S4

Apple and Samsung have some fixing to do after Chinese and Japanese teams show of exploits

11 years ago

Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Disappears, Along With £3 Million Worth Of BTC

Customers have been unable to contact the administration of Global Bond Limited for over two weeks

11 years ago

The NSA Refuses To Stop Spying On Germany

Representatives of the German secret services fail to reach an agreement with US colleagues

11 years ago

MacRumors Hack Affects 860k Users

Apple gossip site says protection around the passwords might not stop them being brute forced

11 years ago

Microsoft Fixes Internet Explorer Zero-Day Flaw

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security update fixes a zero-day flaw with its IE browser, as well as other vulnerabilities

11 years ago

FireEye: Digital Arms Dealer Might Be Fuelling Advanced Attacks

Chinese digital arms dealer might be at the centre of some highly-advanced, government-sponsored attacks

11 years ago

Banks Testing Cyber Attack Communications Resilience

Operation Waking Shark 2 taking place in London today

11 years ago

Stuxnet Infected Russian Nuclear Plant, International Space Station, Claims Kaspersky

According to the charismatic CEO, malware created to disrupt Iranian nuclear research has travelled to space

11 years ago

‘We Can Trust GCHQ On Encryption’

Professor Alan Woodward doesn't think GCHQ or the NSA would have meddled with encryption, given they use it so much

11 years ago

Chinese Hackers Suspected In Fresh IE Exploit

New Internet Explorer attack has links to hits on Google and Bit9

11 years ago

OpenStack Vendors Look To Protect User Privacy

At the OpenStack Summit, vendors discussed the actions they are taking to protect users from government surveillance

11 years ago

Tech Club Members Know Good Security

Our readers have fun, but play it safe at the third Tech Club event

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Duped Workmates For Passwords – Report

NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden reportedly used the login details of his workmates to access sensitive data

11 years ago

IT Life: Keeping Up With The Cybercriminals

Protecting data is a company's toughest task, says Lior Arbel of Performanta

11 years ago

Cisco To Integrate Security Into ACI Fabric

Cisco pledges that security will be the key component of its new Application-Centric Infrastructure initiative

11 years ago