Security

Bitcoin Reaches Record Value Of £224

The exact causes of a $90 boost in value over the last seven days are unknown

11 years ago

Universal Credit ‘Wasted £140m On IT’ Says PAC

PAC claims at least £140 million of IT spend is set to be written off

11 years ago

Refreshed Silk Road Drug Market Launches On Dark Web

Relaunched drug bazaar promises better security for dealers

11 years ago

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Hits Out At GCHQ Snooping

Inventor of the World Wide Web slams the Internet snooping practices of the NSA and GCHQ

11 years ago

TechWeek Research: Security On A Budget

Readers haven't got the money to close every security gap - but prioritisation is keeping most of the bad guys…

11 years ago

Box CEO Aaron Levie Calls Alleged NSA Spying ‘Inappropriate’

Box CEO calls for more transparency in government surveillance and says country-specific networks are a bad idea

11 years ago

The NSA Uses OpenStack – But Its Clouds Promise Freedom

The NSA has contributed to OpenStack, writes Sean Micchael Kerner from Hong Kong - but it hasn't given it a…

11 years ago

Apple Opens Up About Snooping Requests

Better late than never...Apple finally reveals the snooping requests it has received from various governments

11 years ago

Research Suggests A Conspiracy Of Miners Could Destroy Bitcoin

A team from the Cornell University proposes changes to the Bitcoin protocol to make it safer

11 years ago

29 Arrested In £7.5m Credit Card Fraud Bust

Crooks stole data from point of sale systems and created fake credit cards

11 years ago

Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Exploited In Pakistan Attacks

Attacks linked to strikes on Pakistani government bodies

11 years ago

Lenovo BlackBerry Bid Is Blocked By Canadian Government – Report

The Canadian government vetoed any chance of Lenovo buying BlackBerry, according to reports

11 years ago

Microsoft Expands Bug Bounty To Tackle Exploits

Microsoft is a late comer to bug bounties, but now expands the scheme to offer more tempting rewards

11 years ago

Privacy Group Complaint Says Telecoms Giants ‘Colluded’ With GCHQ Snooping

BT, Verizon and Level 3 amongst those included in a Privacy International complaint with the OECD

11 years ago

NSA Probably Couldn’t Crack Merkel’s BlackBerry

The NSA spied on Angela Merkel - but Wayne Rash thinks her phone's encryption kept the spooks out

11 years ago

DARPA Launches Cyber-Defence Automation Challenge

The research organisation of the US Department of Defence is offering a $2 million top prize to spur the development…

11 years ago

Git Soothes PHP Security Fears… For Now

In a classic watering hole attack, hackers compromised a well-known, respected high-traffic Website and planted malware in a bid to…

11 years ago

Art Coviello: Attacking Anonymity, Just In The Right Places

RSA chief explains why he thinks anonymity is the enemy of privacy, but is he more than a little motivated…

11 years ago

Swisscom Pitches ‘Swiss Cloud’ Privacy Credentials To Concerned Businesses

Swisscom's 'Swiss Cloud' services could be attractive to companies concerned about the extent of government surveillance

11 years ago

Human Rights Groups Urge Cameron To Rethink GCHQ Snooping Reaction

Cameron's reaction to GCHQ's snooping has eroded the freedoms of the press and ignored threats to civil liberties, open letter…

11 years ago

Gartner Sees Cloud Security Services Surge

Cloud-based tokenisation and encryption, vulnerability assessment, SIEM and web application firewalls will see the strongest growth, according to Gartner

11 years ago

Co-Founder Of Liberty Reserve Will Spend Up To 75 Years In Prison

Vladimir Kats pleads guilty to money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting charges

11 years ago

German Journalists Urged To Avoid Google And Yahoo

German journalist union advises its members to avoid Google and Yahoo services after NSA snooping allegations

11 years ago

Edward Snowden To Work As Tech Support For A Russian Website

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to start his new job on Friday

11 years ago

Google And Yahoo Fibre Networks Allegedly Infiltrated By The NSA

The NSA could have harvested information from fibre optic channels connecting Google data centres

11 years ago

BT Olympic Security Chief: Cyber Terrorism No Real Threat

Most significant threat to London 2012 website came from hacktivists, as danger of digital terrorism practically non-existent

11 years ago

Silent Circle And Lavabit Creating Anti-Snooping Email Alternative

Edward Snowden's old email provider and Silent Circle announce the Dark Mail Alliance

11 years ago

Forgotten Investment In Bitcoin Buys Man A Flat In Central Oslo

In 2009, Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 bitcoins for £16 and forgot about it

11 years ago

Women Represent Just 11 Percent Of The InfoSec Workforce

A survey finds that women in the industry have the same experience and technical background as men, but a broader…

11 years ago

21 More Pirate Websites To Be Blocked By UK ISPs

BeeMP3, FilesTube and TorrentHound join the likes of the Pirate Bay on the copyright holders’ blacklist

11 years ago