Security

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

Teampoison Owns UN Server, Again

A Teampoison hacktivist claims to have current live access to a server the UN says is offline

13 years ago

UK To Spend £3bn On Security In 2011

Britain is the biggest spender on IT in Europe and the third biggest globally, says report

13 years ago

Zeus Thieves Raid Bank Accounts To Rob Jewellers

FBI warns of spear-phishing that Zeus loots victims' bank accounts, stealing jewellery on the way

13 years ago

RIM Probes Rooted PlayBook Tablet Claim

Research in Motion is investigating claims that hackers have 'rooted' its Playbook tablet

13 years ago

EC Forms Online Child Protection Coalition

The EC has formed a coalition of 28 leading tech and media companies to improve children's online safety

13 years ago

Vodafone Launches Child Protection Mobile App

Vodafone Guardian app will allow parents to manage their children's smartphone use

13 years ago

GCHQ Devises Code-Cracker Game To Recruit Spies

Intelligence agency GCHQ has gone to social media with a code-breaking challenge for would-be spies

13 years ago

British Apple Worker Sacked For Facebook Posts

An Apple Store employee who ranted on Facebook about his job has lost his claim of unfair dismissal

13 years ago