Security

Wiki Weapon Spawns Copyright-Free 3D Printer Blueprint Search Engine

Defense Distributed wants to destroy copyright, and dreams of a revolution

12 years ago

HMRC Under Pressure As British Surveillance Software Used In Ethiopia And Vietnam

Government pressured to reveal what steps it has taken to stop Gamma selling its FinFisher kit to repressive regimes

12 years ago

Fresh DDoS Attacks Batter US Banks

Major US banks are once again hit by DDoS attacks, with speculation increasing about their origins

12 years ago

Andromeda Botnet Returns With Souped-Up Stealth Skills

Malware drops in a modular fashion making it harder for security products to pick it up

12 years ago

Bromium Proposes Virtualising Every Task To Solve Broken Endpoint Security

Xen creator Ian Pratt gives every task its own virtual machine!

12 years ago

Post-PWN2OWN: Are Exploit Sellers Playing Nicer?

PWN2OWN paid money for security attacks. It could mark a turning point controversy over exploit sellers, says Tom Brewster

12 years ago

Michelle Obama, Government And Celebs Targeted By Hacking Group

Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton and Mel Gibson amongst handful of high-profile targets

12 years ago

CeBIT 2013 Video: One Minute With Catalin Cosoi From BitDefender

Catalin Cosoi, chief security strategist at Softwin, explains how to beat the hackers in the long run

12 years ago

Reporters Without Borders Names And Shames Corporate Spyware Sellers

UK's Gamma International is branded the "Corporate Enemy of the Internet"

12 years ago

Report: Google To Pay $7m In Street View Probe Settlement

Google will pay $7m in a settlement to end a US government probe into alleged privacy violations by the search…

12 years ago

Meet 2013’s Cyber Security Challenge Champ

Cyber Security Challenge 2013 winner, Stephen Miller,tells us about his and the competition's future

12 years ago

Microsoft Readies Four Critical Fixes For Patch Tuesday

IE10 flaw uncovered by VUPEN during PWN2OWN not addressed in latest update

12 years ago

Reserve Bank Of Australia Hit By Hackers

Malware thought to have penetrated bank's systems

12 years ago

UK Crowns Third Ever Cyber Security Champion

GlaxoSmithKline employee Stephen Miller takes the top prize

12 years ago

Report: Facebook Defeats Users’ Privacy Efforts

A Carnegie Mellon report has found that while users are making increasing efforts to keep their information private, Facebook's privacy…

12 years ago

Finns And Europol Down Online Credit Card Fraud Ring

Europol seeing successes from its European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) as another criminal operation shut down

12 years ago

European Commission Fights ‘Scaremongering’ Data Privacy Lobbyists

Viviane Reding says she is standing firm in the face of strong pressure from heavyweight lobbyists

12 years ago

Android And BlackBerry Malware Selling For Thousands On Dark Web

TechWeekEurope sees seller pushing malware which targets major banks via Android, BlackBerry and Symbian for as much as $15,000

12 years ago

Pwn2Own Hackers Down Browsers, Java, Adobe Plug-ins

The annual hacking contest in Canada has successfully compromised Java, Adobe plug-ins, as well as IE10, Firefox and Chrome

12 years ago

Kim Dotcom Plans To Sue New Zealand’s Government Spies

Government Communications Security Bureau might find itself in court after wiretapping Dotcom’s communications

12 years ago

Evernote To Introduce Two-Factor Authentication

Recent hacker attack prompts the company to rethink its security policy

12 years ago

The Pirate Bay Reveals North Korea Relocation Plan Was A Prank

The pirates trick users and the media, but its servers still remain hidden

12 years ago

Azure Fail: Microsoft Says Security Certificates Were Updated, Sort Of

Microsoft renewed SSL certificate, but Azure storage failed to use the new one

12 years ago

Evernote Resets All Passwords Following A Security Breach

50 million accounts need new passwords, but Evernote says no content had been compromised

12 years ago

Yet Another Java Flaw Exploited In Attacks

FireEye has discovered an unpatched Java bug that is being used to actively attack systems

12 years ago

China Fires Back And Accuses US Of Hacking

China claims it is a victim of state-sponsored hacking from the US, not a perpetrator

12 years ago

Court Orders Three More Torrent Websites Blocked In The UK

High Court orders ISPs to block access to Kickass-Torrents, Fenopy and H33T

12 years ago

RSA 2013: European Privacy Laws Harm Civil Liberties – Art Coviello

RSA chief blasts European privacy laws, telling TechWeekEurope they favour criminals

12 years ago

RSA 2013: Hacking Team Defends Its Surveillance Software

Hacking Team's software was allegedly used by repressive regimes to track down citizens for torture. We ask their lawyer Eric…

12 years ago