Security

InfoSec 2013: Government Promises £500,000 Cyber Aid For SMBs

SMBs are getting battered and the government wants to help with little pots of money

12 years ago

Japan Police Want To Block Nefarious Tor Use

Some fear Japanese police move could lead to a blanket ban of the anonymising service

12 years ago

Germany Fines Google £124k Over Street View Wi-Fi Snooping

German regulator complains Google's Wi-Fi snooping fine should be bigger

12 years ago

ISPs In ‘Conspiracy Of Silence’ With Government On Snooper’s Charter

Privacy groups accuse ISPs of betraying customers' trust by colluding with the Government

12 years ago

Boston Marathon Tragedy Spurs Botnet Spam Campaigns

The Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer explosion are being used by two large botnets

12 years ago

BadNews Malware Downloaded By ‘At Least 2m Android Users’

More nasty code finds its way onto the Google Play store

12 years ago

Reddit Hit By ‘Malicious DDoS’

Another day, another big site DDoSed

12 years ago

The Cambridge Boffs Hoping To End Cyber Bank Heists

Cronto, a Cambridge University spin-out, believes it has a solution to the problem of banking malware

12 years ago

US House Passes Controversial CISPA Bill

Bill passes but faces tough road ahead, with White Office threatening a veto

12 years ago

Bitcoin Blockchain And Mt.Gox Knocked Offline By DDoS Attacks

More trouble in Bitcoin land, with the Blockchain DDoSed, Mt.Gox suffering outages and BitFloor giving up entirely

12 years ago

Anonymous Gets $54k Funding For News Site

Your Anon News to set up its own incendiary web space

12 years ago

Pirate Bay Co-Founder “Anakata” Faces New Charges

Swedish authorities intend to keep Gottfrid Svartholm Warg in prison

12 years ago

Worm Infections Fall As Web Threats Rise, Says Microsoft

Microsoft says that worms such as Conficker are on the decline, but it warns that web threats are thriving

12 years ago

Malwarebytes Update Kills Thousands Of Computers

Update gaffe leaves malware finders rather contrite

12 years ago

Prolexic CEO: ‘Biggest Cyber Attack Ever’ Was Built On Lies

We were told it was the biggest DDoS ever, but Prolexic's CEO says it's hugely unlikely that's true

12 years ago

Check Point’s Low Cost Firewalls Boost SMB Security

SMB offices get cheap firewall security from Check Point

12 years ago

Thousands Of UK Users Cursed By ‘Magic Malware’

Persistent campaign against UK businesses and individuals contains 'magic code'

12 years ago

DDoS Power Up 718 Percent Amidst Widespread Batterings

Prolexic sees seven-fold rise in average attack strength

12 years ago

Oracle Fixes 42 Java Flaws

For the second time in just over two months, Java gets a load of fixes

12 years ago

Malware Attacks On The Rise And Target Android

A new report has suggested that Android is currently bearing the brunt of malware threats out there

12 years ago

Symantec: SMBs Super Scared Of Spike In State Sponsored Strikes

Smaller businesses are a "springboard" for attacks on government bodies

12 years ago

Linode Hackers Compromise Passwords, Credit Card Details

Linode had a Bitcoin heist last year. Now it has had another serious breach

12 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks NPR

Group continues its offensive on western news sources

12 years ago

Sophos Confirms Imminent Job Cuts

Sophos says it is shedding some weight in order to get a little leaner

12 years ago

Activists Sue UK Government Over Spy Software Supplier

HMRC sued by Privacy International over investigation into British seller of surveillance software thought to have targeted human rights activists

12 years ago

Boston Marathon Mobile Disruption Due To High Demand, Not Police

Boston calls were blocked by high demand - not by any deliberate network shutdown

12 years ago

Anonymous Hits North Korea Sites Again

As South Korea reportedly takes its nuclear plants offline, Anonymous launches fresh attacks on North Korean websites

12 years ago

Oxbridge And Kent Police Cyber Attacker Pleads Guilty

Universities needed two weeks’ worth of man hours to recover from attacks of 21-year-old

12 years ago

News International Frets Over Spear Phishing Bombardment

Following attacks on rival publishers, News International CISO Amar Singh talks about his spear phishing nightmares

12 years ago

WordPress Sites Take Brute Force Battering

WordPress says security firms are hyping tales of attacks

12 years ago