Security

Buggy Symantec AV Update Crashed Windows XP

Compatibility crashed Symantec customers's Windows XP PCs

12 years ago

BBC Study Questions Facebook Ad Value

You may be wasting money getting people to Like you

12 years ago

Russian Hacker Makes In-App Purchase Free On iPhone, iPad

Free game upgrades thanks to flaws in Apple's in-app purchase method

12 years ago

Yahoo Fixes Password-Hack Security Glitch

Yahoo has fixed the vulnerability that allowed hackers to compromise 450,000 passwords, and has offered more details on who is…

12 years ago

O2 Problem Hit Boris Bikes And Criminals’ Electronic Tags

O2's mobile network went down, and prisoners were temporarily off the net

12 years ago

Leaked Yahoo Passwords ‘Mostly Invalid’

Leaked file was an old one says Yahoo. But why wasn't it encrypted?

12 years ago

Yahoo Passwords Hacked And Posted Online

Hackers break into VoIP user-base, as a "wake up call"

12 years ago

Kim Dotcom Offers To Stand Trial In US

Megaupload founder happy to face copyright charges if he gets freedom, money and a place to live

12 years ago

Home Office Defends ‘Snooper’s Charter’ At Westminster

Home Office officials tell a Parliamentary Committee why they want our communications data

12 years ago

Over 100,000 Download New Rogue Android Apps

More dirty Android apps on Google Play include fake Mario and GTA titles

12 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Plugs XML Flaw

Microsoft has fixed a XML Core Services bug that is being exploited in the wild in its latest security update

12 years ago

UK Users Fear Online Payments: European Study

Brits are online scaredy-cats, a European Commissions study shows

12 years ago

Kim Dotcom Extradition Hearing Postponed Until 2013

Kim Dotcom is going to have to wait until next year for his extradition hearing

12 years ago

Google To Pay $22.5m To Settle Apple Safari Privacy Row

Google has agreed to settle over claims it forced cookies down Apple users' throats

12 years ago

DNSChanger Aftermath: Should We Ban The Diseased?

At the end of the DNSChanger saga, Tom Brewster asks if infected machines should be banned from the Internet

12 years ago

App Eating Android Malware Infects 100,000 Chinese Phones

New Android malware downloads unwanted apps and lands Chinese users with big bills

12 years ago

Back-Up Supplier Acronis Apologises For Data Leak

Acronis is investigating a data leak that saw customers' email addresses published on the Web

12 years ago

Syrian Spying Tool DarkComet Killed

Remote access tool killed by its creator, but the Syrian government may still be using it

12 years ago

Two Men Jailed For £1.5m Student Phishing Scams

Two men from Manchester and London sentenced for scams that fleeced students

12 years ago

DNSChanger Doomsday Threatens To Take 300,000 Off The Web

As many as 20,000 machines in the UK could be cut off the net when the FBI pulls the plug

12 years ago

US Military Spurs Robotics Efficiency Efforts

The US Defence Department is looking to create robots that are up to 2,000 times more efficient than those in…

12 years ago

McKinnon Extradition Case Delayed, Pending Medical Evidence

Hacker has been given time for another health examination

12 years ago

Top ICO Official Moved To Google After WiSpy Probe

Stephen McCartney accepted a position at the company investigated by his previous employer

12 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday To Fix Zero-Day XML Flaw

Next week, Microsoft will address an Internet Explorer flaw that has already been actively exploited in the wild

12 years ago

BA Hits Privacy Turbulence Over Passenger Profiling

British Airways is accused of snooping on its passengers by using the Internet to hunt down personal information

12 years ago

Police Chief Backs ‘Snooper’s Charter’ As Government Inquiry Begins

Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Communications Data Bill has begun as Chief Constable of the British Transport Police gives the…

12 years ago

Google Dismisses Android Botnet Reports

Reports of an Android botnet are false, says Google, but is it in denial?

12 years ago

Cummings Touts Military Spec Mobile Security With SecureMobile

Cummings Engineering has launched its mobile security platform, SecureMobile, to help tackle BYOD issues

12 years ago

Malware Hits Apple App Store ‘For First Time Ever’

The Apple App Store gets its first ever rogue application, according to Kaspersky

12 years ago

McAfee Offers DNSChanger Lifeline As Doomsday Approaches

DNSChanger servers are set to be cut off next Monday, as McAfee releases a tool to help those infected stay…

12 years ago