Security

Sophos Struggles To Wake From False Positive Nightmare

Sophos releases more help for users after a literally self-defeating false positive gaffe

12 years ago

Security Flaw Leaves Samsung Galaxy S III Vulnerable To Remote Wiping

Several Samsung smartphones can be forced to perform a factory reset with just a simple code

12 years ago

Symantec Investigates Fresh Source Code ‘Leak’

Norton Utilities 2006 purportedly released on The Pirate Bay

12 years ago

Microsoft Could Have Known About IE Security Flaw In Advance

TippingPoint ZDI may have tipped Microsoft off to IE security hole two months ago

12 years ago

Iranian Internet Censorship Continues With Google And Gmail Block

Secure services blocked. Is Iran planning a national intranet launch?

12 years ago

Facebook Removes Face Recognition Software In Europe

Social network withdraws facial recognition features voluntarily after Irish audit

12 years ago

Microsoft Patches Browser Hole

Microsoft has released a fix for an Internet Explorer security vulnerability that is being actively exploited by attackers

12 years ago

US Court Will Not Challenge Facebook Privacy Settlement

US appeals court rejected the claims that £5.8m settlement favours Facebook and lawyers

12 years ago

US Banks Warned Of Islamist Hacker Threat

Warning: hackers will take last week’s violent anti-US protests online

12 years ago

Microsoft Releases Fix It Tool for IE Security Flaw

Temporary Fix It plugs the hole till the permanent patch tomorrow

12 years ago

Researchers Show Off Android Hack Using NFC

Security researchers have demonstrated a way to hack Android phones through the NFC protocol

12 years ago

GCHQ Security Competition Seeks Espionage Experts

The government's intelligence agency is to hold a cyber-security competition to help close the UK's cyber-espionage skills gap

12 years ago

Microsoft Admits Attacks Hit IE Browser Zero-Day Flaw

Microsoft has said it is investigating a previously unknown Internet Explorer security flaw that attackers are using to infect Windows…

12 years ago

Stolen Edinburgh Council Laptop Contains Children’s Details

We hope the crook wiped data before fencing the computer, Council says

12 years ago

Spy Tool Targeted Middle East For At Least Five Years

The Flamer espionage software has been operational for more than five years and as recently as May 2012, according to…

12 years ago

Chrome Gets ‘Do Not Track’

Google has added the privacy feature to Chrome's latest developer build, with the release version to get 'Do Not Track'…

12 years ago

IT Executive Revealed As PlugX RAT Malware Creator

AlienVault identified the suspect by traces of his personal information scattered online

12 years ago

Microsoft Finds Nitol Botnet Malware On PCs In Chinese Supply Chain

Microsoft finds Nitol in brand new Chinese PCs and seizes domain to kill it off

12 years ago

Microsoft Works With Adobe To Patch Windows 8 Flash Flaws

Microsoft has confirmed it is working with Adobe to patch flaws in the Flash player ahead of the Windows 8…

12 years ago

Huawei Complains At US ‘Roadblock’ On Trade

US officials are unjustly blocking Huawei's attempts to compete in the United States, a research paper has claimed

12 years ago

Google Removes Autocomplete From Pirate Bay Search

Google no longer auto-completes the search term for Pirate Bay web domains as it steps up its copyright clampdown

12 years ago

Cisco Upgrades Firewalls and Anti-Intrusion Products

Cisco has beefed up protection for clouds and data centres with new firewall and intrusion-prevention products

12 years ago

US Researchers Create Invisible QR Codes

The team says it can print hidden information onto any solid object

12 years ago

Go Daddy Outage “Not A Hacker Attack”

CEO Scott Wagner says the problem was purely technical

12 years ago

Chip And Pin Flaw Uncovered By Cambridge Boffins

Chip and pin payment systems used by many banks contain a serious vulnerability, according to Cambridge University researchers

12 years ago

Microsoft Delivers Light Patch Tuesday Update

Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday has a relatively light load, but October promises to be more substantial

12 years ago

Anonymous Claims Attack Which Shut Millions Of GoDaddy Sites

Anonymous accused of censorship after attack on so-called censor

12 years ago

Apple Code Leak Blamed On App Developer

An application developer has admitted it is the likely source of the leaked Apple UDIDs, after its servers were hacked

12 years ago

HP Beefs Up Enterprise Security Portfolio

HP has announced widespread improvements to its enterprise security offerings, to better secure the cloud and data centre

12 years ago