Security

Assange Spurts Protests Online Through His Little Package

Swiss artists give WikiLeaks founder Assange a chance to voice opinions on current affairs

12 years ago

Malware Kept US Power Plant Offline For 3 Weeks

Unsecured USB drives pose a real danger to Industrial Control Systems, warns ICS-CERT

12 years ago

Man Outsourced His IT Job To China ‘For Months’

Software developer known only as ‘Bob’ spent his workdays looking at cat videos

12 years ago

Ofcom Fines Playboy £100,000 For Failing To Protect Children From Porn

Ofcom rules that Playboy age verification measures were insufficient on two of its websites

12 years ago

Blue Coat Caught Up In Global Surveillance Storm Again

Company's tech found in nations including China, Russia, Egypt and Bahrain, but are they being used for negative purposes?

12 years ago

Privacy Regulator Keeps An Eye On Facebook Graph Search

Watchdog tries out Facebook's new thing, isn't totally convinced about its respect for privacy

12 years ago

Regulator Says In-App Purchase Complaints Rise By 300 Percent

PhonePayPlus warns parents and children of dangers of malware and in-app purchases

12 years ago

US Congress Implicated In Online Piracy

Members of the House might have downloaded Captain America, episodes of Glee

12 years ago

Paperless NHS Marks ‘The End Of Medical Privacy’

Plans to get medical data online concern activists already worried about NHS' data selling and poor security history

12 years ago

UAE Government Accused Of Using Java Flaw To Spy On Activist

UAE authorities are behind the spyware campaign against activists, alleges Bahrain Watch

12 years ago

Petition To Oust Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Hits 25,000 Goal

White House should now issue a response on the Aaron Swartz case

12 years ago

US Authorities Deny Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload Entrapment Claims

A court filing says federal agents didn’t trick Kim Dotcom

12 years ago

Red October Cyber Espionage Campaign Crumbles Day After Uncloaking

Campaign starts falling apart day after Kaspersky goes public with its findings

12 years ago

Big Bad Botnets Combine To Send Billions Of Spam Messages

Waledac makes a comeback by piggybacking on top of a virulent buddy

12 years ago

Aaron Swartz Lawyer: I Warned Prosecutors Of Suicide Risk

Lawyer claims prosecutors said Swartz would have been safer in jail

12 years ago

Hit By Cyber Crime? Keep A Clear Head

Cyber crime isn't like ordinary crime says Seth Berman of Stroz Friedberg. Think before you report it

12 years ago

Microsoft Confirms Patch For Internet Explorer Zero-Day

Microsoft moves after various websites serve up exploits for an unpatched flaw in the browser

12 years ago

Red October Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Global Governments

Links to Russian-speaking nations and incredibly detailed, targeted attacks uncovered by researchers

12 years ago

They’re Bad: Michael Jackson Hackers Sentenced

Men who stole Jackson music avoid jail time

12 years ago

Oracle Rushes Out Java Patch But ‘Serious’ Flaws Left Open

Java palaver as Oracle fails to satisfy security circles

12 years ago

European Cybercrime Centre Impresses On Cautious Opening

Commissioner says we should not expect miracles from the new facility

12 years ago

Anonymous Petitioning White House To Make DDoS Legal

Hacktivist groups wants its attacks to be legal

12 years ago

Java Zero-Day Sees ‘Mass Exploit Distribution’

The flaw reported yesterday has already escalated and hit mass distribution

12 years ago

Yahoo Mail XSS Vulnerability Still Exploitable After Patch

The patch that didn't patch up much

12 years ago

Yet Another Java Zero-Day Exploited In The Wild

Another year, another Java zero-day

12 years ago

Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data But Denies Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Nokia says it does decrypt some customer information over HTTPS traffic, but isn't spying on people

12 years ago

WikiLeaks Alleged Leaker Bradley Manning Faces Delayed Trial

Intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was not abused enough to have his case thrown out, says judge

12 years ago

US Officials Suspect Iran Of Bank DDoS Attacks

US and Iran cyber tussles continuing, according to a report

12 years ago

‘Huge’ Ruby On Rails Vulnerability Causes Panic

Rails flaw could be a big issue for thousands of sites, security researchers warn

12 years ago

European Cybercrime Centre To Open On Friday

Europol hopes to gather intelligence and skills for the benefit of all member states

12 years ago