Security

PayPal Defends Denying 17-Year-Old His Bug Bounty

Payment giant says teen was too young and the bug had already been found

11 years ago

US Weapon Designs Stolen By Chinese Hackers – Report

China blamed for stealing some seriously sensitive information

11 years ago

Sky Removes Apps From Google Play After Hacks

Syrian Electronic Army at it again but no Sky mobile applications were hacked

11 years ago

Hackers’ Favourite Currency Liberty Reserve Downed After Arrest

Experts claim impact on the underground economy could be massive

11 years ago

Theresa May Bidding To Revive Snoopers’ Charter After Woolwich Killing

Home secretary wants controversial proposals back on the table and a crackdown on extremist websites

11 years ago

Dell, HP Thin Client Upgrades Focus On Performance, Security

The thin client improvements from Dell and HP are aimed at companies heading for the cloud

11 years ago

Study: Layered Security Fails To Meet Expectations

A NSS Labs study found that combining security products tended not to produce the level of improvement expected

11 years ago

Study: BYOD On The Rise, Regardless Of Company Policy

Employees admitted to using their own equipment to access work data whether company policy permitted it or not, with email…

11 years ago

Zeus Malware Back With A Vengeance To Cause Carnage In May

Keep hold of your bank logins, Zeus is getting aggressive again

11 years ago

Google Issues Crisis-Response To Oklahoma Tornado

Google creates a crisis-response Web page to assist the tornado-devastated Oklahoma region

12 years ago

Google Researcher Slams Microsoft As He Reveals Windows Security Flaw

Tavis Ormandy says Microsoft treats vulnerability researchers with “great hostility”

12 years ago

US ‘Should Consider Hacking Back’ To Recover Billions From China Cyber Spies

IP theft is costing US billions so hacking back might help alleviate the losses, ex-US government officials claim

12 years ago

Lords Call To Revive Internet Monitoring Bill After Woolwich Killing

Lord Reid and others want Snoopers' Charter back on the agenda, but are accused of giving a knee-jerk reaction to…

12 years ago

Websense Agrees Buyout Deal With Private Equity Firm

Another tech firm is to remove itself from the stock market, as Websense opts for a £600m buyout deal

12 years ago

US Electric Grid Shows ‘Worrying’ Security Gaps

Thanks to weaknesses at the supplier level, the US electric grid is more in danger of being attacked, Congress report…

12 years ago

Government-Backed Report Gets The Cost Of Cyber Crime Wrong

A claim that small businesses are losing £800m a year because of cyber crime appears to be based on dodgy…

12 years ago

Blue Coat Dives Deep Into Security Data With Solera Networks Acquisition

Blue Coat is bringing in a lot of deep packet inspection technology with its second acquisition in a month

12 years ago

If You Want True Privacy, Use Something Other Than Skype

Skype doesn't provide as much privacy as other comms products, so just use them instead if you care enough, says…

12 years ago

UK ISPs Block Two More File Sharing Sites

MPA wins court order to block Movie 2K and Download4All

12 years ago

Microsoft Plugs Azure Cloud Data Centre Into Janet Network

Dublin facility peered with Janet, the university network

12 years ago

Chinese Cyber Espionage Unit Starts Re-Hacking US Organisations

Unit 61398, allegedly sponsored by the PLA, is back at it again

12 years ago

Yahoo Japan Warns 22m Customers Over ID Theft

Yahoo admits a hack of its infrastructure, although passwords remain safe

12 years ago

Pakistan Organisations Targeted By Massive Indian Cyber Operation

Pakistani bodies, including government organisations, are the main target, but UK, US and Chinese groups also targeted

12 years ago

Online Fraud Takes $525m Toll On US Consumers

Online automobile fraud topped the list of Internet crime complaints reported by US citizens last year

12 years ago

Bloomberg Brings In Ex-IBM CEO Palmisano For Privacy Help

After a bad week for privacy at Bloomberg, the company brings in IBM's former leader

12 years ago

Mac Malware Signed With Apple Developer ID Targets African Activist

Genuine Apple developer ID used in attacks on Angolan activist

12 years ago

Mozilla Delays Blocking Third-Party Cookies In Firefox

Despite delaying a default feature, Mozilla is keen to get it into Firefox soon

12 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Strikes Again With FT Hacks

Financial Times has blogs and Twitter feeds taken over

12 years ago