Security

BitCoin Exchange Sued For Fraud

Bitcoinica got raided by hackers and couldn’t pay its customers

12 years ago

Security Snafus Escalate As ICO Warnings Up 48 Percent

The ICO is baring its teeth some more, but still imposing minimal fines

12 years ago

UK Gov And Met Police Implicated In TrapWire Surveillance Scare

Number 10 and Scotland Yard named in leaked emails from Wikileaks

12 years ago

Michael Dell’s Daughter Loses Twitter Account After Spilling Secrets

Michael Dell's millions couldn't stop his daughter revealing location information on her family

12 years ago

Facebook And FTC Agree Settlement Over Privacy Row

Facebook has avoided an FTC fine, but will be monitored for 20 years as part of its settlement with the…

12 years ago

Kaspersky And CrySys Offer Gauss Detection Tools

Two free tools are being offered by Kaspersky Lab and CrySys to detect the cyber-spying tool Gauss

12 years ago

FBI Warns Of Malware Posing As… The FBI

Reveton accuses victims of copyright infringement and asks for money

12 years ago

Facebook Introduces Phishing Reporting Service

Facebook introduces a phishing reporting service for its security-aware users

12 years ago

Anonymous Vows Revenge For Wikileaks And Demonoid Blackouts

Wikileaks sites remain down, as does Demonoid, and Anonymous isn't happy

12 years ago

Blizzard Hacked And Scrambled Passwords Leaked

Passwords have been compromised but World of Warcraft creator took precautions to protect user accounts

12 years ago

Google FTC Fine Hits Record Of £14m

Google guilty of tricking Safari users into accepting tracking cookies

12 years ago

Facebook Gambling ‘Gives Hackers Greater Reason To Attack It’

Hackers are likely to be excited by Facebook's move in to gambling

12 years ago

Gauss: A Government Cyber Espionage Tool With Mysterious ‘Warhead’

Another nation state-funded cyber espionage tool rears its ugly head, Kaspersky says

12 years ago

Google’s Deadly Daisy Chains

Google can expect security pros and its rivals to cry foul over bringing Gmail messages into search, says Tom Brewster

12 years ago

Google Blacklisting Jumps 150 Percent In Only Three Months

Google blacklisted almost 1000 sites in July, up from 400 in May

12 years ago

Android Malware Spikes 61 Percent In Just A Quarter

Android malware rises sharply again in Q2

12 years ago

ICO Pressures Charities To Open Doors For Data Protection ‘Check Ups’

The ICO doesn't want to fine charities, so is encouraging them to take advantage of free help

12 years ago

Demonoid Servers Taken By Ukrainian Authorities

Anonymous swears revenge, DDoS’es three government websites

12 years ago

Zeus Malware Turns To Smite BlackBerry Users

Attackers start paying more attention to RIM's devices

12 years ago

Apple And Amazon Up Their Security After Honan Hack

Password resets over the phone are stopped in the aftermath of the “epic hack”

12 years ago

Microsoft Continues To Push Do Not Track By Default In IE10

Microsoft stands firm and says IE10 will have DNT on by default

12 years ago

WikiLeaks ‘Under DDoS Again’

The second DDoS strike on WikiLeaks this year has taken its site offline, Assange's organisation says

12 years ago

Protecting The Business From RAT Infestation

Curt Wilson, research analyst at Arbor Networks, tells you how to get rid of nasty RATs

12 years ago

Alleged Mariposa Botnet Mastermind On Trial

Mariposa suspect is on trial, whilst Spanish suspects await their own hearings, TechWeekEurope understands

12 years ago

Former Lloyds Bank Security Chief Pleads Guilty To £2.4m Fraud

A former head of Lloyds Bank IT security is facing a lengthy jail sentence

12 years ago

Stuxnet And Flame Scare Critical Iranian Infrastructure Offline

After Stuxnet and Flame cause carnage, Iran is set to take some of its infrastructure off the Internet

12 years ago

LinkedIn: Password Breach Cost Us As Much As $1m

LinkedIn's password breach costs the firm a lot, but company claims damage was not significant

12 years ago

Three Arrests In China Over Baidu “Post-Deleting” Services

Baidu employees are believed to have removed user comments for cash

12 years ago

Reuters Admits Twitter Account Hacked

Reuters admits its Twitter account was hacked over the weekend, whilst one of its blogs was compromised too

12 years ago

Health Trust Fined £175k After Website Gaffe

Torbay Care Trust says it is disappointed by the fine, but it will pay up

12 years ago