Security

Facebook Condemns Employers Asking For Job Seekers’ Passwords

Facebook is officially pushing back against employers who want job applicants to disclose their Facebook passwords

13 years ago

Prototype Approved App Marketplace Launched By US Army

The US Army has launched a marketplace prototype for approved apps while the Air Force has bought into the iPad…

13 years ago

DOJ Claims AT&T Let Nigerian Crooks Abuse Programme For The Deaf

The US Justice Department is suing AT&T fo failing to act against Nigerian crooks abusing a programme for hearing-impaired users

13 years ago

European Project Probes Attitudes To Privacy

European attitudes to the trade-off between privacy and security are to be examined by a group of researchers

13 years ago

Symantec Warns Of New Duqu Variant In Wild

Security vendor Symantec is warning that it has discovered a new version of the Duqu worm in the wild

13 years ago

Agency Officials Say Spies Have ‘Penetrated’ US Networks

Security experts warn Senate to assume that federal networks have been compromised by spies

13 years ago

Enigma E2 Is World’s Most Secure Phone

Encrypted calls have a possible 10 to the power of 77 possible authentication codes on feature-frugal phone

13 years ago

Carpathia Host Wants To Delete Megaupload Data

Storage company Carpathia Hosting claims that storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs it $9000 a day

13 years ago

Norwegian Government Site Crashes, Logs Everyone In As Kenneth

Site users got access to real Kenneth's financial details in one of the weirdest data breaches ever

13 years ago

ZTE Sold Surveillance Equipment To State-Owned Iranian Telco

ZTE reportedly signed a deal in 2010 to provide broad monitoring equipment to Iran

13 years ago

Cory Doctorow: How Privacy Can Make Money

Privacy is a business opportunity, given the right technology foundations, says science fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow

13 years ago

IBM X-Force Security Report Balances Good News With Bad

Application vulnerabilities and spam are down, but attackers are finding new opeinings, according to the annual X-Force report

13 years ago

Hacktivists Pilfered More Data Than Cyber Criminals in 2011

Anonymous, LulzSec and the AntiSec crew stole more data than money-hungry cyber criminals in 2011

13 years ago

Vint Cerf ‘Puzzled’ by Google Privacy Furore

Google's Vint Cerf defends the new privacy policy, but admits it wasn't presented well

13 years ago

Cisco Touts Virtualised Video Surveillance On UCS

Cisco Systems is virtualising its Video Surveillance software, integrating it into the UCS converged platform

13 years ago

Scammers Demand Piracy Payouts From Megaupload Users

A fake German law firm is demanding compensation from former Megaupload users for alleged copyright infringement

13 years ago

Student Loans Company Red Faced Over Mass Email Blunder

The SLC sends out thousands of email addresses to the wrong people

13 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Discovers Invisible Memory-Only Bot

The clever Russian malware hides in RAM and spreads trough banners on news websites

13 years ago

Report: Super Dangerous Russian Cyber Gang Arrested

To capture the gang, Russian special forces had to come in through a window on the 16th floor

13 years ago

UK Data Breach Cost Drops To £1.75 Million

Ponemon research shows businesses are getting better at preparing for breaches

13 years ago

Symantec To Complete Mobile Security Acquisition

Symantec to expand mobile security platform with takeover of Nukona

13 years ago

French Watchdog’s 69 Probes Latch Onto Google’s Privates

French regulator CNIL reveals the 69 questions it asked on Google's privacy policy

13 years ago

China ‘World’s Biggest’ Cyber Attack Victim?

A report claims that the world’s most populous country is also the world’s biggest victim of hacker attacks

13 years ago

Google Defends Hotfile’s Right To ‘Safe Harbour’ Under DMCA

Search giant claims MPAA misled the court in summary judgement filing

13 years ago

The Real Cyber Challenge: Getting The Right People Into IT Security

The Cyber Security Challenge is more than a competition. It is a revelation of why there are so few IT…

13 years ago

Android Malware Surge Needs Vendor Action, Says Report

A surge in malware targeting Android devices has apparently surpassed the popularity of the mobile operating system

13 years ago

Government Agrees To Indian Move For British Driver Data

The government agrees to allow IBM to undertake a 'Passage to India' for personal data belonging to British drivers

13 years ago

New iPad Jailbroken By Three Different Methods

Three days after its launch, the new iPad had been hacked in three different ways

13 years ago

Lulzsec Suspect Appears In Magistrates Court

Ryan Ackroyd of South Yorkshire set for Crown Court appearance in May

13 years ago

Duqu’s Mystery Language Decoded

The Objective-C language used by many Mac OS developers was used to communicate with Duqu's operators

13 years ago