Security

Anonymous Claims DDoS Hit On HSBC

HSBC services downed by DDoS attack

12 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Europe’s Tech Pioneers

How well do you know European tech history? Our quiz takes in the inventors of radio, telephony and computing!

12 years ago

Hague Announces Spook Apprenticeships At Bletchley Park

The Foreign secretary has used a visit to Bletchley Park to announce an apprenticeship scheme for the next generation of…

12 years ago

Twitter Censors Neo-Nazis in Germany, But Tweets Are Still Visible

Twitter uses country-specific blocking for the first time

12 years ago

Huawei Shrugs Off Financial Concerns Over US Cold Shoulder

A Huawei executive has dismissed concerns of the financial impact because of America's security worries about it

12 years ago

Pirate Bay Cloud Move Protects It From Police Raids

Move to the cloud should improve both reliability and security

12 years ago

Government Investigates FoI Avoidance Claims

DoB civil servants are being investigated over claims they were using personal email accounts to avoid Freedom of Information Act…

12 years ago

Kaspersky Confirms Development Of Secure Industrial OS

Eugene Kaspersky wants to stop virtual attacks on real-world infrastructure

12 years ago

British Spy Firm Rejects US Claim It Makes Android Malware

US agency says Gamma International's software is being used by criminals - but the British firm begs to differ

12 years ago

Manchester Police Slapped With £120,000 Data Breach Fine

Manchester police caught napping by the ICO

12 years ago

Google May Win, Whether Or Not It Bows To EU Privacy Pressure

Changes to Google's privacy policy may come through in response to the EU regulators. But Peter Judge wonders if they…

12 years ago

Gary McKinnon Will Not Be Extradited To US

After ten years of waiting, Gary McKinnon learns he will not be extradited

12 years ago

Santander In Cookie Security ‘Train Wreck’

Santander customers aren't happy about alleged security failings at the bank

12 years ago

EU Watchdogs Order Google Privacy ‘Upgrade’

Google has to give users more control, says the EU

12 years ago

MiniFlame Sabotage Tool Spotted Supporting State-Funded Malware

MiniFlame can either work on its own or back up its bigger buddies Flame and Gauss

12 years ago

LulzSec Hacker Pleads Guilty To Sony Pictures Hit

Lulzsec hacker Raynaldo Rivera is looking at a maximum five years in jail

12 years ago

More US Banks Hit By Attackers

Two more US banks were hit by denial-of-service attacks which caused outages in spite of advance warning

12 years ago

Massive Data Breach Hits Florida University

A data breach has compromised the identities of nearly 300,000 employees and students of Northwest Florida State College

12 years ago

Premium Rate Firms Fined £450,000 After Dodgy Facebook Campaigns

PhonePayPlus reaches out to Facebook to clamp down on dodgy premium rate businesses

12 years ago

Anonymous “Turns Its Back” On WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has been trying to force readers to donate and Anonymous “is enraged”

12 years ago

Mammoth Oracle Patch To Address 109 Flaws

Updates cover plenty of severe vulnerabilities across a broad range of Oracle software

12 years ago

US Defence Secretary Panetta Warns Of Cyber 9/11

As the US ramps up spending on its digital arsenal, its defence secretary warns of cyber disaster

12 years ago

ICO Praises Private Sector Security

The ICO says the private sector is leading the way in data protection, but is it basing its claims on…

12 years ago

Google And Yahoo Domains Hijacked In Ireland

The Irish domains of both Google and Yahoo were knocked offline after a serious security breach

12 years ago

Neelie Kroes Warns On Do Not Track Watering Down

Kroes calls on industry to ensure DNT is not weakened because of advertiser pressure

12 years ago

RSA 2012: Jimmy Wales Set For ‘Snooper’s Charter’ Showdown With Theresa May

Wales tells TechWeekEurope he plans to explain the flaws of 'Snooper's Charter' to home secretary next month

12 years ago

MPs Could Investigate Huawei UK Relationship With BT

Sir Malcolm Rifkind says the parliamentary security committee is considering whether to investigate Huawei's UK operations

12 years ago

Surveillance Malware Targets UAE Activist As Exploit Sellers Implicated

VUPEN denies its vulnerability was used to target notable UAE activist

12 years ago

Mozilla Withdraws Firefox 16 Due To Security Flaw

Firefox 16 security flaw causes Mozilla to withdraw latest version of web browser

12 years ago