Security

Cisco Set To Acquire Sourcefire For $2.7bn

Snort-based supplier sucked into Cisco's world

11 years ago

ISPs Told To Block More Torrent Sites

EZTV and YIFY the latest to face ISP blocks

11 years ago

SIM Card Encryption Weaknesses Could Expose Millions

Hundreds of millions of SIMs are using weak encryption to do over the air updates, which is bad news for…

11 years ago

Ubuntu Forums Hack Exposes 1.8m Accounts

Canonical advises members to change their passwords as soon as possible

11 years ago

Launching The Cyber Repression Series

Tom Brewster introduces a series of articles focusing on the plight of global activists in the face of mass cyber…

11 years ago

China Implicated In Zero-Day Attacks On Falun Dafa And Military Groups

EXCLUSIVE: As part of the Cyber Repression Series, TechWeek reveals campaign to spy on spiritual activists and military bodies

11 years ago

Bit9 Warns Of Insecure Java Deployments

Only 1 percent of enterprise systems have the latest version of Java deployed, adding to the language's security troubles

11 years ago

Hackers Breach Apple Developer Centre

Attack from last week leaves developer site offline and user data has been compromised

11 years ago

Huawei Denies Ex-CIA Chief’s China Spying Claims

Huawei again has to bat off claims it is working with Chinese spies

11 years ago

Tech Giants Call For NSA Transparency

The IT backlash against NSA data requests grows as tech big names call for more transparency

11 years ago

UK Intelligence Asked For Communications Data 570k Times In 2012

Interception and comms data requests spike, but mistakes have led to wrongful arrests

11 years ago

Exposed: ICO’s Tame Investigation Of Google Street View Data Slurping

EXCLUSIVE: Privacy watchdog fails to follow up on Google claims it contained illegally collected Street View data and didn't use…

11 years ago

UK Government Security Adviser To Review Huawei Cell

Cabinet Office says it can't be complacent over concerns surrounding Huawei centre designed to check for security flaws

11 years ago

German Government: There Are Two PRISMs

There's the PRISM of the NSA and the PRISM partly run by NATO, according to the German government

11 years ago

Microsoft Demands Right To Disclose NSA Requests

Microsoft has joined other tech firms in demanding the right to reveal government requests for data

11 years ago

Oracle Patches 89 Vulnerabilities In Sizeable Update

Oracle squashes a lot of bugs but one researcher says company's security practices "are simply not working"

11 years ago

MPs Declare GCHQ PRISM Access Lawful

GCHQ access to the controversial PRISM programme is legal, Intelligence and Security Committee says

11 years ago

Google Glass Vulnerability ‘Highlights Need To Secure Internet Of Things’

Flaw could have forced users to connect to malicious Wi-Fi, but Google has fixed it

11 years ago

EFF, Gun Groups And Others Sue NSA Over Surveillance

First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and the Calguns Foundation join EFF and others in fight against snoops

11 years ago

Tumblr Fixes iOS App After Security Fail

Yahoo's blogging baby hasn't been doing SSL right

11 years ago

Shoddy Developer Security Practices Exposed By Study

The majority of developers do not implement any security development procedure when designing apps

11 years ago

Mac Malware With Apple Developer ID ‘Likely Government Sponsored’

The sneaky Janicab malware is likely targeting activists in Kazakhstan and Russia

11 years ago

Yahoo Wins Court Ruling To Show How It Fought US Surveillance

Yahoo praised for fighting the US government over requests for its customers' personal data

11 years ago

South Korea Claims North Behind Cyber Attacks On Government Websites

Denial of service hits that coincided with the anniversary of the Korean War blamed on the North

11 years ago

How Cyber Extortion Really Goes Down

TechWeek exclusively exposes a real case of attempted cyber extortion, as a betting company is targeted by a DDoSer claiming…

11 years ago

Texas Restaurant Chain Sues Micros Over Malware Infection

The restaurant chain alleges that Micros delivered a credit card transaction system containing malware that stole customer data

11 years ago

UK Terror Police Seize Mass Mobile Data At Border Control

David Anderson QC set to raise concerns about search powers of border police this week

11 years ago

Merkel Gets Behind Controversial European Data Protection Reform

European Commission's polarising data protection reforms get a boost thanks to Edward Snowden

11 years ago

Sony Stops Fighting £250k Breach Fine ‘For Security Reasons’

Irony lost on Sony, saying it would give away too much info on its security if appeal against ICO fine…

11 years ago

Russians Opt For Typewriters To Combat Leak Threat

No danger of a Snowden style leak if it's all on paper, the Kremlin hopes

11 years ago