Security

Costly UK e-Borders Programme Deleted Drug Smuggling Data

Data management failures apparent despite £500 million spent so far on trying to keep terrorists and crooks out

11 years ago

Power Surges Hit ‘Cursed’ $1.4bn NSA Data Centre

Meltdowns reported at the NSA data storage site whose electricity was cursed by protesters

11 years ago

Microsoft Hands Out $100k For Windows Security Bypass

Researcher takes home over $100,000 for bypass and other bugs

11 years ago

Amazon Touts Login Service For Third Parties

Amazon opens up about its third party login service that allows customers to make purchases from other websites

11 years ago

Four ‘Silk Road Traders’ Arrested In The UK

So far, eight people across four different countries have been detained in connection with the illegal online marketplace

11 years ago

Confirmed: Alleged Blackhole Exploit Kit Author Arrested In Russia

The Blackhole exploit kit author has been arrested, much to the delight of the security community

11 years ago

Cyber Attack Cost Rises Again For Breached Organisations

The UK is suffering less than others, whilst IT teams are spending in all the wrong places

11 years ago

WhatsApp Users ‘Should Not Trust Broken Encryption’

More encryption problems uncovered on WhatsApp

11 years ago

Popular Processors ‘Are Riddled With Backdoors’

IOActive CTO Gunter Ollman says research is uncovering a lot of interesting flaws on much-used chips

11 years ago

Rising Threat: Cyber Bank Heists With Citadel’s Man-in-the-Browser

Man-in-the-Browser attacks are only getting more frequent, thanks to the Citadel botnet and numerous other threats, says Dennis Schwarz

11 years ago

UK Bank ‘Cyber War Games’ Coming In November

Bank of England to oversee stress tests next month

11 years ago

NCCU: UK FBI-Style National Cyber Police Launched

Tthe PCeU and the SOCA cyber team formally come together as National Crime Agency launches

11 years ago

Samsung Called Before Court For Alleged Leak Of Apple Secrets

Samsung allegedly used secret Apple licensing terms in negotiations with Nokia

11 years ago

Security Research Must Have Its Just Rewards

After T-shirt-gate, Mozilla and Microsoft, can show Yahoo the right way - and the wrong way - to respond to…

11 years ago

Vormetric : Organisations Struggling Against Insider Threat

A new study suggests that most organisations do not block privileged users from access to sensitive data

11 years ago

Internet Explorer Zero-Day To Be Fixed On Patch Tuesday

Microsoft gets its fix ready following attacks on various organisations

11 years ago

GCHQ Refuses To Answer Questions On Belgacom Hack

Intelligence agency unsurprisingly keeping schtum over attack allegations

11 years ago

US Charges 13 Alleged Anonymous Members

Alleged Anonymous DDoSers charged for Operation Payback attacks

11 years ago

Adobe Admits Massive Security Breach

Adobe has reported a major security breach that could impact up to 2.9 million customers

11 years ago

Privacy Bodies Take GCHQ Snooping Fight To EU Court

Complaints lodged with European Court of Human Rights as the Snowden leaks fallout spreads

11 years ago

GitHub Struggles With Second Day Of DDoS Attacks

Code repository battered by DDoS attacks for the second day running

11 years ago

Patent Troll Lodsys Gives Up Kaspersky Fight

Out of 55 companies taken to court by patent troll Lodsys, Kaspersky was the only one to stand up to…

11 years ago

Former CTO of NSA: ‘See Everything To Protect The Right Things’

Machine-generated data can enhance cyber security, says Prescott Winter during his keynote at .conf 2013

11 years ago

Post T-Shirt-Gate, Yahoo Offers Up To $15k Bug Bounty

Researchers will get more than corporate swag for finding flaws

11 years ago

Silk Road Closure Causes Sharp Drop In Bitcoin Value

BTC goes from $142 to $118 after the FBI shuts down illegal online marketplace

11 years ago

Professional Cyber Espionage Rings To Grow

Espionage on demand hacking groups are set to increase, warn experts

11 years ago

Man Arrested As Underground Site Silk Road Shut Down By FBI

Man accused of being secretive website founder Dread Pirate Roberts arrested

11 years ago

The 100Gbps DDoS Attack That No One Saw

Not many people noticed, but last week saw a DDoS attack using 100Gbps of raw bandwidth, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

UK Banks Told To Test Cyber Attack Resilience

Banks also asked to test resilience against legacy IT failures

11 years ago

BlackBerry 10 Receives NATO Security Clearance

BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 can now handle 'restricted' information

11 years ago