Security

Beijing Clamps Microblogs With Registration Regulation

China continues its online clampdown after ordering the registration of real names on microblog sites

13 years ago

Sky Blocks Newzbin2 After Court Order

Sky says it blocked file-sharing site Newzbin2 to protect copyright holders and consumers

13 years ago

Healthy EU And US Data Protection For Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft says its Office 365 cloud platform now conforms to European Union and HIPAA privacy regulations

13 years ago

Google Wallet Security Risk Flagged By Researchers

Google Wallet poses a possible security risk after researchers found a problem with its encryption process

13 years ago

Spam Takes Back Seat As Targeted Attacks Rise

Criminals are not replacing botnets but are instead turning to more targeted attacks, researchers warn

13 years ago

Carrier IQ – Part Of The Solution, Not Part Of The Problem

Carriers have been slammed for monitoring on device usage,. J Gerry Purdy says this is necessary to give users a…

13 years ago

ICO Warns Of Location Privacy Issues

The ICO used a speech this week to warn that attention must be paid to individual's location privacy

13 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 17 Bugs

Microsoft has patched 17 bugs in its December Patch Tuesday update, including the Duqu Trojan flaw

13 years ago

Malicious SMS Messages, Facebook Chats Hit Windows Phone

When setting up a Windows Phone, a hacker discovered a specially crafted disabling text message

13 years ago

Wikipedia Could Temporarily Shutdown In SOPA Protest

Wikipedia could shut down to put pressure on congress not to pass SOPA

13 years ago

British Student Admits Facebook Hack

A student from York has admitted hacking into Facebook, but denies it was with malicious intent

13 years ago

No Sign of Reader Fix As Adobe Patches ColdFusion

Adobe released a fix for ColdFusion but no date has been set for the Reader zero-day vulnerability

13 years ago

Google Pulls 22 SMS Fraud Apps Off Android Market

Google has removed 22 free games and apps which send fraudulent - and expensive - SMS messages

13 years ago

HP: Firms Fail To Manage Sensitive Data Access

Organisations should pay more attention to employees' levels of access to sensitive data, says HP

13 years ago

Scammers Sell Fake Smartphone Spying Tool

A new scam claims to sell access to a spying system that lets users monitor other people's smartphones

13 years ago

Blue Coat Acquired By Private Equity Firm

Blue Coat Systems has been brought out by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for a cool £829m

13 years ago

Google Wallet Enters For The Olympics

Google Wallet, the contactless mobile payment system, could reach London in time for the Olympics

13 years ago

Cybersquatting: A New Spin On An Old Crime

New scams are often based on old tricks and sometimes it is the simplest ruse that gains the richest rewards,…

13 years ago

US Authorities Warn On Facial Recognition Tools

The US Federal Trade Commission warns companies not to compromise privacy when using facial recognition

13 years ago

Yahoo Wins Massive Payout Against Spammers

Yahoo has been awarded a staggering $610 million in damages against spammers, but will it collect?

13 years ago

US Authorities Censor Blog For A Year Without Cause

The US authorities return confiscated domain name to an "illegal" music blog without explanation

13 years ago

Police Arrest Six Over £1m Phishing Scam

The Metropolitan Police have busted a phishing ring that defrauded students of £1 million

13 years ago

GFI Releases LanGuard Patch Management Update

GFI's LanGuard 2011 allows administrators to set customised security criteria

13 years ago

Symantec VIP’s Strong Cloud Authentication: Review

Symantec's VIP employs strong multifactor authentication ideologies to bring security to the cloud and beyond

13 years ago

Applications Riddled With Security Flaws: Veracode

The majority of applications scanned by Veracode's cloud-based testing tool held some kind of security flaw

13 years ago

Russians Deny England World Cup Bid Email Hack

FBI interviews members of England's 2018 World Cup bid team as part of its investigation into FIFA corruption

13 years ago

ICO Clamps Down On Spam Texters

ICO raids spam text office while survey finds 0.01 percent of people found spam texts useful

13 years ago

RIM Fixes PlayBook Flaw, Jailbreakers Find Bypass

RIM is playing a patching game with jailbreakers who have re-hacked the PlayBook just after it was fixed

13 years ago

OpenDNS Releases Encryption For All DNS Traffic

DNS traffic encryption from the client computer to OpenDNS servers can prevent attackers eavesdropping

13 years ago

India Urges Tech Firms To Cut Offensive Content

India is urging Google, Microsoft and Facebook to halt the uploading of “objectionable” web content

13 years ago