Security

Pirate Bay Takes Flight With GPS Controlled Drones

Ambitious drones will use Raspberry Pi computers to seek sanctuary in the skies

13 years ago

Kim Dotcom May Recover Property Due To Police ‘Error’

A police 'procedural error' may allow Kim Dotcom to recover the £100m of property, including a pink Cadillac, seized in…

13 years ago

Google Thrown To The Watchdog Lions Over Safari

Google is bracing itself for massive fines from US and EU authorities over its circumvention of Apple's Safari browser protection

13 years ago

Avast CEO: We’re Still Working On Making Freemium Services Work

We chat with Avast's CEO about what happened with iYogi and how to ensure partners don't cause embarrassment.

13 years ago

Groupon Changes Practices After OFT Smackdown

Groupon says it "welcomes" the findings of an OFT investigation that said it broke a number of customer service regulations

13 years ago

Apple Called To Washington To Dispel Privacy Concerns

Apple has been told to send a representative to Washington DC to discuss its privacy practices with Congress

13 years ago

SourceForge Shuts Anonymous OS Downloads

Security concerns cause SourceForge to kill downloads for Anonymous OS

13 years ago

Avast Kills Free Phone Support After Upselling Upset

Avast gets embarrassed by iYogi's dodgy upselling tactics.

13 years ago

Met Arrests 14 Over £1m Phishing Scam

PCeU strikes again, taking in 14 people during an investigation into a major phishing operation

13 years ago

US ISPs Will Start Hunting Pirates From July

Pro-copyright organisations confirm ISPs will commence initiatives on 12 July

13 years ago

Doubts Surround Anonymous Operating System

Ubuntu-based OS, featuring pre-installed hacking tools, was released yesterday

13 years ago

BYOD Trend Addressed By Alcatel-Lucent And AirTight Networks

The two vendors are offering capabilities to identify employee-owned mobile devices on corporate networks

13 years ago

US Electronic Voting System Hijacked In Less Than 48 Hours

Academics from Michigan crack the Washington voting system, and watch the reaction on unsecured CCTV cameras

13 years ago

What Is Behind Dell’s Acquisition Spree?

The acquisition of SonicWall gives Dell a powerful set of products and services to compete with Cisco, Juniper and HP,…

13 years ago

Building Firm Pays £10,000 Over Unlicensed Software

Audit exposed George Morrison's use of unlicensed Microsoft and Autodesk products

13 years ago

Microsoft Warns Of Attractive Remote Desktop Flaw

Microsoft urges businesses to get patching over fears cyber crooks will take advantage of a remote desktop flaw

13 years ago

Morto RDP Patch Is Critical Feature Of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Issue

Microsoft's March 2012 Patch Tuesday bulletin features six issuess, including one rated "critical" that focuses on the Morto RDP vulnerability

13 years ago

Swedish Police Begin New Pirate Bay Investigation

Swedish web hosting company says police asked it to reveal personal details about Pirate Bay domain owner

13 years ago

Home Secretary Approves O’Dwyer Extradition

TVShack creator faces up to five years in prison over copyright infringement charges

13 years ago

BBC Hit By Cyber Attack Over Iran

The BBC says its Persian service has been taking a battering

13 years ago

Symantec Releases Data Insight 3.0 Governance Intelligence Platform

Data Insight's scalable and parallel architecture is designed to support large-scale data management operations

13 years ago

Dell Plans SonicWALL Security Acquisition

Dell gets plenty of patents and thousands of customers with the SonicWALL buy.

13 years ago

Anonymous Launches Fresh Attack On Vatican

Holy See website taken down as Anonymous publishes details of Vatican Radio journalists

13 years ago

Reporters Without Borders Names The Enemies Of The Internet

The RWB looks back on a year of Internet activism and attempts to stop it

13 years ago

Twitter Used By Malware Developers, Symantec Warns

Symantec has warned that Twitter is being increasingly used to dupe users into clicking on malware

13 years ago

Microsoft Offers Refund For Azure’s Leap Year Outage

Microsoft provides detail of the Leap Day Azure cloud outage and offered a 33 percent rebate to all customers

13 years ago

Porn Site Hit By Hardcore Hack

Hacker group The Consortium claims responsibility, but promises not to use information for personal gain

13 years ago

A Word With The Student Cyber Security Star

We talk with newly-crowned Cyber Security Champion, Jonathan Millican, about his victory and his plans for the future.

13 years ago

ICO To Follow EU On Potential Google Privacy Punishment

The ICO is being sheep to the EU's shepherd over Google's controversial privacy policy.

13 years ago

Hacker Pleads Guilty To Abortion Website Attack

A man who defaced an abortion services company's website with the Anonymous logo has been caught

13 years ago