Security

Home Office Throws £4m At Educating Britain On Cyber Security

Awareness push from government celebrated by industry

11 years ago

If FISA’s Google Gag Isn’t Unconstitutional, I Don’t Know What Is

Attempts to gag Google's publishing of FISA surveillance requests are out of order, says Wayne Rash

11 years ago

Anonymous OpPetrol Attacks ‘Passing Like Tumbleweed’

This is how OpPetrol ends - not with a bang, but a whimper

11 years ago

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Warg Jailed For Two Years

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg is given a prison sentence, but also faces extradition to Denmark

11 years ago

Kim Dotcom Furious After LeaseWeb Deletes Megaupload Servers

Dutch firm deletes a whole load of Megaupload data, which could have been valuable evidence for Dotcom

11 years ago

LinkedIn Downed As ‘DNS Error’ Strikes

LinkedIn says site is back to normal after DNS glitch at its registrar

11 years ago

Microsoft Signs Up To Bug Bounties With £65,000 Reward

Microsoft has finally joined the bug bounty movement and promises to pay for vulnerability discoveries

11 years ago

Global Privacy Watchdogs Quiz Google On Glass

Letter asks what Google Glass does with personal data and what protections are in place

11 years ago

Carberp Malware Source Code Sells For $50k On Dark Web

Despite recent arrests, there's plenty of activity around the nasty Carberp Trojan

11 years ago

Google Fights US Surveillance Gagging Order

Google asks the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court if it can be more open about FISA requests

11 years ago

Cyber Crooks Jailed After ‘Biggest Ever UK Phishing Scam’

PCeU and SOCA hit big cyber crime ring

11 years ago

Facebook Blocks Tor Users After Heavy Malicious Activity

Tor security event leaves activists (and criminals?) exposed on Facebook

11 years ago

Internet Watch Foundation Granted Greater Power And £1m Boost

The Internet Watch Foundation will now actively seek out those creating and sharing illegal content on the Web, Maria Miller…

11 years ago

Millions At Risk From Critical Vulnerabilities In WordPress Plugins

Millions of sites could contain serious flaws, security firm warns

11 years ago

Yahoo Latest Tech Giant To Disclose Surveillance Requests

Marissa Mayer says government should let tech companies be more transparent on FISA requests

11 years ago

Zeus Variant Tries To Hire Victims As ‘Mules’

A new version of the Zeus banking Trojan attempts to hire its victims to help move money to offshore accounts

11 years ago

You Need To Manage Your SSH Keys

Manage your Secure Shell keys or suffer the consequences, says Tatu Ylönen, inventor of SSH

11 years ago

Saudi Arabia ‘Planning To Ban WhatsApp’

Saudis show aggressive approach in coping with modern communications

11 years ago

GCHQ Hacked G20 Politicians’ Machines In 2009 – Report

GCHQ hacked dignitaries' phones and computers, including BlackBerry devices,

11 years ago

Apple, Facebook And Microsoft Release Surveillance Request Data

Tech titans can't say whether they've received FISA requests, but can include them in aggregates of US government demands for…

11 years ago

Cisco pxGrid Aims To Improve Network Security

Cisco is invigint security developers to create applications for the Identity Services Engine as part of its Platform Exchange Grid…

11 years ago

HP Discover 2013: Autonomy Legacy Data Cleanup To Delete Risky And Useless Data

Autonomy GM Robert Youngjohns tells TechWeek the "stable" HP division is looking to the future

11 years ago

Former Home Secretaries Demand Revival Of Snoopers’ Charter

Labour's Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Alan Johnson tell Lib Dems to stop opposing Communications Data Bill

11 years ago

Microsoft Gives Vulnerability Data To US Intelligence Before The Public

US being supplied with troves of data that could be used in cyber attacks, thanks to tech firms' vulnerability disclosure…

11 years ago

Microsoft Secures Azure With Multifactor Authentication

Redmond has added multifactor authentication to its Azure Cloud to make it a bit more hacker resistant

11 years ago

PRISM Whistle-Blower: US Has Been Hacking China For Years

Edward Snowden says US does a lot of offensive cyber work

11 years ago

Researchers Claim Wi-Fi Threat Is A Serious Danger To iPhone Users

iPhones are automatically connecting to certain Wi-Fi networks, which could be run by cyber crooks

11 years ago

Google Detects Iran Phishing Spike As Election Looms

Phishing attacks spike on Google users in Iran ahead of Friday's election

11 years ago

Researchers Warn Of Windows EFS Exploit By Malware

To thwart security analysis, malware uses the Encrypting File System feature on Microsoft Windows

11 years ago