Security

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

Adobe Admits Zero-Day Flaw In Acrobat, Reader

Adobe is rushing to develop a patch to fix a critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader

13 years ago

Alan Turing Petition Seeks Official Pardon

However Turing supporters ask is a pardon right, for crimes comitted under an "awful" law?

13 years ago

Powys Gets Biggest ICO Fine Yet For DPA Breach

Powys County Council slammed for over-sharing child-protection case details

13 years ago

Facebook Flaw Exposes Zuckerberg’s Private Pics

A tool intended to flag inappropriate Facebook content was exploited to access CEO Zuckerberg's images

13 years ago

Dorkbot Malware Continues To Spread On Facebook

Sophos warns that a piece of Facebook malware is continuing to spread through Facebook chat.

13 years ago

UK Cyber Defences Bolstered For Olympics

The Olympics are now only seven months away and will reportedly enjoy 'unprecedented' cyber security

13 years ago

Cryptek Secure USB Stick Offers Over 14m Passwords

Cryptek's new USB stick offers both 256-bit encryption and an exterior locking mechanism

13 years ago

British Businesses Lag US In Cyber-Worrying

Lloyds of London finds that UK firms should be more concerned about the cyber-crime threat

13 years ago

EC Looks To Impose Massive Data Breach Fines

The European Commission is to demand the power to fine companies for data breaches under new reforms

13 years ago

Kaspersky Quits BSA Over US SOPA Support

Kaspersky says Stop Online Piracy Act is against the public interest and quits BSA to emphasise its point

13 years ago

Getting Cyber Security Legislation Right

Governments are creating legislation to combat cyber crime, Imperva’s Rob Rachwald wonders if their methods will work

13 years ago

Industry Predicts More Advanced Attacks in 2012

Cyber-adversaries are gearing up for even more advanced attacks. Fahmida Rashid Explores the security outlook for 2012

13 years ago

GCHQ’s Cracking Good Idea That Failed The Test

The GCHQ recruitment puzzle has been full of security holes but it was more of a publicity stunt than anything…

13 years ago

Researchers Reveal Skype Stalking Flaw

A Skype user's IP addresses can be captured over time to covertly track them and view P2P transfers, researchers say

13 years ago

McKinnon’s Mother Pleads Before Extradition Debate

Hacker Gary McKinnon's mother wants MPs to renegotiate controversial US-UK extradition treaty

13 years ago

Assange Set For Final Extradition Appeal

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to one further appeal to the Supreme Court

13 years ago

Syria Bans iPhones To Stop Protestors Talking

Apple's iPhone banned to silence reports of violence against protestors in Syria's Arab Spring revolt

13 years ago

Swiss Government Rules Downloading To Stay Legal

The Swiss government claims that file-sharing does not lose entertainment companies money

13 years ago

Russian Opposition Sites Hit with Attacks

Websites critical of Russia's government appear to have been silenced in DDoS attacks

13 years ago

French Firm Supplied Gaddafi’s Internet Spying Kit

French social media publisher OWNI claims Amesys provided dissident-surveillance equipment to Libya

13 years ago

Voodoo Android App Sniffs Out Carrier IQ

An open source Android app tells users if the Carrier IQ rootkit is running on their phones

13 years ago

FBI Discloses Scada Attacks In Three US Cities

An FBI official admitted Scada systems were compromised but denies any major damage occurred

13 years ago