Security

Head Of PCeU British Cyber Police To Quit Force

Charlie McMurdie tells TechWeek it is the right time to go, ahead of PCeU's merger with SOCA

12 years ago

Hacker Splashes Sex And The City Author’s Next Book Online

Pages of Candace Bushnell's Killing Monica novel thrown on Google Drive for all to see

12 years ago

Super Stealthy Backdoor Spreads To Hit Hundreds Of Thousands Of Web Users

Cdorked almost matches Stuxnet for sophistication, researcher tells TechWeek

12 years ago

Queen’s Speech: Battle Brewing Over Access To Crooks’ IP Addresses

Government says it may legislate on providing police with better access to people's IP addresses

12 years ago

Internet In Syria Down, Country Remains Offline

An ongoing outage cuts Syria off from the rest of the world

12 years ago

Google Triggers Privacy Concerns With Policy Violation Patent

Google risks fresh privacy rows after filing a patent for a policy violation/law breaking scanning tool

12 years ago

McAfee Bids £250m For Firewall Innovator Stonesoft

Stonesoft will add next generation firewall expertise to McAfee's arsenal

12 years ago

Alleged SpyEye Botmaster Extradited To US

Man sent to US from Bangkok where he was arrested in January

12 years ago

OpUSA Threatens American Banks And Government Agencies

US expects the operation to go off with a whimper

12 years ago

Researchers Warn Over Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Flaw

Attacks in the wild and a fresh Metasploit module make life difficult for Microsoft

12 years ago

Pentagon Says China Behind Cyber Espionage On US

China denies US claims it was behind attacks on numerous nations in 2012

12 years ago

UK PC Infection Rate Hits 22 Percent

The UK was among the countries with the lowest infection rate, while China topped 50 percent of PCs hit by…

12 years ago

US Labour Website Compromise Spreads Malware

Malware planted on the US Department of Labour's website attacked victims' systems using a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer 8

12 years ago

Government Adopts Cloud First Strategy As G-Cloud 3 Goes Live

There's no Amazon or Google on G-Cloud, but Big Data crime fighter Palantir is

12 years ago

Dutch Consider Allowing Police To Legally Hack Back

Dutch police could get the power to hack criminals' equipment, even if they are based abroad

12 years ago

CoinLab Sues Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange For $75 Million

Mt Gox was due to transfer ownership of US and Canada assets in March. Well, it didn’t.

12 years ago

Pentagon Approves BlackBerry 10 And Samsung Knox Devices For US Military

US Department of Defense moves towards a mixed-device environment

12 years ago

‘Non-Stop’ Attacks Crippling Silk Road Drug Site

Attacks over Tor on illegal drug marketplace believed to be part of extortion attempts

12 years ago

Defence Firm QinetiQ Pillaged By Chinese Hackers

Chinese hackers have repeatedly stolen intellectual property and defence information from QinetiQ

12 years ago

Salesforce Finally Pens UK Data Centre Deal

Salesforce wants to lure government G-Cloud crew with its Slough pad

12 years ago

US Authorities Seek More Web Surveillance Powers

US authorities are seeking additional ways to ramp up their Internet surveillance capabilities

12 years ago

Google Glass Jailbreaker Warns Of Security Failures

Hackers could easily get spyware onto Glass devices, researcher warns

12 years ago

US Department of Labor Site ‘Hacked By Chinese Sources’

Watering hole attack likely to be state-sponsored, say security researchers

12 years ago

EFF Criticises Apple, Amazon And Yahoo For Data Privacy Records

Whilst Twitter is commended for its efforts to keep government hands away from user data, others don't come out looking…

12 years ago

Kaspersky Partners With Ferrari, And Not Just For Advertising

ITALY: Eugene Kaspersky puts on his red jumpsuit...

12 years ago

Go Daddy European Sites Hit By Large DDoS

Hosting giant feels the force of an unusually large attack

12 years ago

Mozilla Takes On British Spyware Seller Gamma Over Firefox Deception

Spyware from Gamma International masquerades as Firefox and Mozilla is not happy about it

12 years ago

Password Reuse Risk After LivingSocial Breach

Security experts are warning users about the dangers of password reuse after the LivingSocial database breach

12 years ago

Twitter Issues ‘Ridiculous’ Security Advice To Media

Twitter ridiculed for suggesting companies should keep Twitter use to one machine

12 years ago

Surveillance Camera Flaws Let Hackers Snoop Too

D-Link surveillance and consumer cameras riddled with potentially serious vulnerabilities

12 years ago