Security

Stratfor CEO Apologises For Data Breach As Site Is Relaunched

Compromised Stratfor has criticised its attackers but at least the firm is back online - although its limited-time free access…

13 years ago

New Zeus Variant Means Game Over For US Online Banking Users

New Zues malware variant, "Gameover" earns its name as it clears out victims' bank accounts in the US

13 years ago

Cyber Security Challenge Moves To Next Phase But One Competitor Is Disqualified

Channon Powell drops out of the CSC 2012 competition before the semi-final stage because he has been given a job…

13 years ago

CES 2012: Victorinox Launches 1TB Swiss Army Knife SSD

Victoronix shows off high capacity Swiss army knife storage devices at CES

13 years ago

Mass SQL Injection Storm Uses Search Engines And Automation

The third mass injection attack in a year uses search engines as a reconnaissance tool to identify sites to hit…

13 years ago

Oracle Beefs Up Database Firewall Product

Oracle has beefed up its Database Firewall to help system administrators combat SQL injection attacks

13 years ago

Judge Denies Twitter Data Block Request

A decision in US federal court means Twitter will have to cooperate with prosecutors in their ongoing WikiLeaks probe

13 years ago

The Unlearned Lessons Of The Past Will Shape 2012

The security landscape changed in 2011 as large companies and governments were taught serious lessons about vulnerability but action has…

13 years ago

The Cattle Group Loses Data Of 1.4 Million Clients

The Cattle Group reports loss of backup tape containing personal and financial data on clients

13 years ago

Israel Vows Retaliation For Credit-Card Hack

The Israeli government has compared the publication of thousands of credit-card details to a terrorist attack

13 years ago

Stratfor Hack Exposes 200 British Defence Staff

Anonymous has exposed email addresses of defence officials, but sources deny there is any risk to national security

13 years ago

Clues To Botmaster Identity Revealed In Chat Logs

Clues and details about the Cutwail botnet and its creator have been discovered in chat logs by Russian authorities

13 years ago

Microsoft Readies 7 Fixes For Upcoming Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has revealed it will close seven security loopholes with its upcoming Patch Tuesday update

13 years ago

US Pushed Spain Into Passing An Online Piracy Law

Leaked letter shows US government threatened Spain with trade sanctions to force it to favour passing an anti-piracy law

13 years ago

Symantec Denies Hackers Have Norton Source Code

Lords of Dharamaraja claim to have stolen source code provided for the Indian military

13 years ago

Apple Files Patent For Password Recovering Charger

New technology could replace security questions for forgotten laptop, iPhone and iPad passwords

13 years ago

Anonymous Outs Neo-Nazi Site Members

Anonymous Germany has launched a website to out neo-nazi site members as part of operation blitzkrieg

13 years ago

Facebook Ramnit Worm Variant Stole UK Log-In Credentials, Report Claims

The latest version of the Ramnit worm steals Facebook credentials and spams friends instead of relying on email

13 years ago

Sweden Grants Religious Recognition To File-Sharing Church

Sweden has accepted that a "church" which believes in file-sharing as a religion: a move that will not please the…

13 years ago

Check Point Security Gateways Offered On Amazon Web Services Cloud

Check Point offers Amazon Web Services customers virtual security appliances built into their cloud environments

13 years ago

Comet Pledges ‘Vigorous Defence’ Against Microsoft Lawsuit

Electrical retailer Comet has pledged to defend itself after software giant Microsoft launched a lawsuit over recovery CDs

13 years ago

ICO To Crack Down On Rule Breakers In 2012

ICO says austerity is no excuse for flaunting its rules and warns companies not to cut corners in 2012

13 years ago

Enterprises Need To Secure Private Data With Encryption

Security experts are urging users and businesses to adopt full disk encryption to secure sensitive data

13 years ago

Two iOS5 Security Flaws Exploited By Apple Jailbreak Tool

The latest jailbreak tool for Apple's mobile devices takes advantage of flaws in the current iOS5 binary and kernel

13 years ago

Saudi Hackers Steal Israeli Credit Card Details

Saudi hackers claim 400,000 Israeli credit cards compromised and promise to reveal more

13 years ago

Japan Develops Defensive Cyberweapon Arsenal

Japanese military plans to deal with an offensive cyber-attack on the country and its infrastructure have been revealed

13 years ago

Hactivists Plot Satellite System To Bypass Web Censorship

So called hacktivists are considering an outlandish plan to launch their own satellites to create a free space-based Internet, immune…

13 years ago

Belarus Restricts Access To Foreign Websites

Belarusians will be fined up to £81 if they conduct business on foreign websites un der a law that comes…

13 years ago

Sony, Nintendo, EA Games Turn Their Backs On SOPA

The top three gaming companies have added their names to the growing list of critics opposing the US Government's SOPA…

13 years ago

Windows Phone Jailbreak Tool Reaches Download Limit

The Microsoft approved jailbreak tool for Windows Phone 7 has reached its 10,000 download limit

13 years ago