Security

Hague To Splash £2m A Year On International Cyber Security Centre

Hague announces Centre for Global Cyber-Security Capacity Building as he calls on nations to work together to fight cyber threat

12 years ago

Microsoft Upsets Advertisers With IE 10 Do Not Track

Microsoft has provoked fury among advertisers for its default 'Do Not Track' feature in Internet Explorer 10

12 years ago

Universal Man In The Browser Attack Evolves To Take Data From Any Website

Man in the Browser attacks have become even nastier, Trusteer warns

12 years ago

ISPs Say Ofcom Is Underestimating Cost of Digital Economy Act

TalkTalk, BT and EE say fighting piracy costs more than you think

12 years ago

Facebook Privacy Boosted As French Watchdog Dismisses Message ‘Bug’

French data protection watchdog says claims of a bug revealing private messages on users' walls are nonsense

12 years ago

Police Arrest Football Referee Email Hack Suspect

FA Referee Dean Mohareb arrested in Manchester over colleague email hack claims

12 years ago

FTC Sets $163 Million Fine For “Scareware” Business

Selling solutions to non-existing security problems is not OK

12 years ago

BYOD Users Fear Employer Snooping

A new survey has revealed that BYOD users have privacy concerns over the snooping habits of their bosses

12 years ago

Illegal Data Trade Sees Massive Growth

Almost 20 million pieces of personal data illegally traded in the first six months of 2012

12 years ago

Another Journalist Arrested On Computer Hacking Charges

Ex-News of the World journalist believed to be suspect

12 years ago

Washington Denies Hacker Attack Compromised Nuclear Information

An attack on the White House did no harm whatsoever, a US official claims

12 years ago

Poll: Do You Love Or Loathe Zero-Day Exploit Merchants?

Exploit sellers are dividing the security industry, but which side do you fall on? Let us know in this poll

12 years ago

US Bank Hits Prove DDoS Attacks Are Scarily Powerful

US bank attacks prove that DDoS hits are getting much nastier. Businesses should be more than a little concerned, says…

12 years ago

ICO Announces £250k Fines For Spam Texts

Watchdog announces first ever fines for spam texters

12 years ago

Nominet Opens .UK Top Level Domain Consultation

Nominet promises better security with .uk domain names

12 years ago

Survey: Regulation, Privacy Erode Business Confidence In Cloud

Businesses feel cloud computing lacks maturity and shows little innovation, according to a survey by the Cloud Security Alliance

12 years ago

Mobile Trojan Spies On User’s Environment

A team of researchers have demonstrated a virus that uses a mobile phone's sensors to recreate a 3D representation of…

12 years ago

Portuguese Prosecutors Say File Sharing Is Legal

Anti-piracy organisation's bid to block file sharing backfires in Portugal

12 years ago

Cisco Concocting Zero-Day Malware Catchers

One of the big boys looks to catch up with younger innovators in the security market

12 years ago

Mozilla Opens Persona For Beta Testing

The password-slaying authentication platform is now available to the public

12 years ago

PayPal Glitch Slows Down Transfers But Boosts Security

PayPal tries to speed up service... ends up slowing it down

12 years ago

Adobe Security Breached To Sign Off Malicious Files

Adobe server is hacked as attackers pilfer certificate, presumably for targeted attacks

12 years ago

Google Brazil To Take Down Offending YouTube Video

Google Brazil says it will remove allegedly slanderous video after official is detained by police

12 years ago

Internet Explorer Beats Browser Rivals After Security Tests

Security testing has revealed Microsoft's Internet Explorer to be the best at fighting click fraud and malicious downloads

12 years ago

New Zealand Prime Minister Apologises To Kim Dotcom

Dotcom was illegally spied on, a New Zealand government report finds

12 years ago

ICO Warns Businesses Over Data Protection In The Cloud

Businesses are responsible for the security of their data, even when it is held on cloud providers' infrastructure, says ICO

12 years ago

Cisco: Antivirus Isn’t The Way Forward For Mobile Security

Cisco doesn't think antivirus is right for protecting business mobiles

12 years ago

Another Serious Java Flaw Emerges

Another Java SE flaw for Oracle to deal with

12 years ago

IEEE Fesses Up To 100k Password Leak

Concerns over why IEEE was storing passwords in plain text and leaving them open to anyone for a month

12 years ago