Security

Virgin Media Warns Customers Of SpyEye Infection

Virgin Media has cooperated with SOCA to identify broadband customers who are infected by SpyEye

13 years ago

Regulators Blast Facebook Over Face Recognition

Regulators worldwide have complained that Facebook's face recognition feature abuses users' rights

13 years ago

Survey Points To Positive Impact Of Social Networking

The Facebook generation are apparently a trusting lot according to a new survey of American users

13 years ago

Facebook Juror Jailed For Eight Months

A juror in a major drugs trial has been jailed after contacting one of the defendants on Facebook

13 years ago

Mobile Payment Players Swallow Their Egos

Britain's operators have set up a shared system for mobile commerce. It's about time they got together, says Sophie Curtis

13 years ago

Citigroup Hack Toll Higher Than First Thought

About 360,000 Citigroup credit cards were affected by last month's hack, nearly double previous estimates

13 years ago

Lulzsec Hackers Take Down CIA Site And Hit Senate

Hacktivists Lulzsec overloaded the CIA's website on Wednesday, as part of continuing protests

13 years ago

Viruses Rise In May While Spam Levels Off

Email-borne malware and viruses showed a big increase in May while overall spam volumes remained flat

13 years ago

Gartner Touts Reprovisioning For Threat Protection

Analysts at Gartner are advocating workload reprovisioning as the best protection against advanced attacks

13 years ago

MoD Videos Warn Of The Perils Of Twitter

The MoD has begun a video campaign warning of the dangers of social networking sites such as Twitter

13 years ago

Adobe Update Patches 36 Critical Bugs

Adobe's security update has patched some critical vulnerabilities for Reader, Acrobat, Shockwave and Flash

13 years ago

APT Detection Appliance Launched By Trend Micro

Trend Micro adds real-time, network monitoring and remediation tools to detect advanced persistent threats

13 years ago

NHS Researchers Lose Laptop With 8m Patient Records

Researchers for London Health Programmes have lost unencrypted records of 8.63 million NHS patients

13 years ago

Facebook Juror Faces Prison For Contempt Of Court

Juror Joanne Fraill, who used Facebook to contact a defendant, is now facing up to two years in prison

13 years ago

PCI SSC And Cisco Guides On Securing Virtual Systems

The PCI Council's latest guide explores virtual environment security while Cisco shows how to achieve compliance

13 years ago

Anonymous Targets Head Of US Federal Reserve Bernanke

Anonymous has identified the US Federal Reserve as a potential target and urged its boss to stand down

13 years ago

HMRC To Use ‘Web Robots’ To Hunt Down Tax Cheats

Tax cheats beware: HM Revenue & Customs is planning to use web bots to crack down on tax evasion

13 years ago

Government Services Could Go Onto Facebook

Users could use Facebook or Twitter to access government services in the future, according to the Cabinet Office

13 years ago

US Plans Investment In Building Secure Smart Grid

The White House announced a smart grid proposal, as a PwC report underscored threats facing utility firms

13 years ago

IMF Breach May Be Nation-State Phishing Attack

A major attack on the International Monetary Fund appears to have been triggered by a spear phishing attack

13 years ago

Security Summed Up: Gullible Users Need Protection

Hackers embarrass the companies they exploit but the victims who need better protection are their customers, says Eric Doyle

13 years ago

Juror Faces Charges For Contacting Defendant Via Facebook

A juror in a major drugs trial is facing contempt charges after contacting one of the defendants on Facebook

13 years ago

EU Readies CERT Team To Fend Off Cyber Attacks

The European Union has created its own taskforce to counter the growing threat of cyber attacks

13 years ago

Spanish Police Website Hacked By ‘Anonymous’

The Anonymous group has carried out a DDoS attack in response to the arrest of three alleged hackers in Spain

13 years ago

Google Removes More Android Malware

Google has removed 10 spyware-bearing applications from Android Market, as malware sophistication rises

13 years ago

User Data Stolen In Codemasters Hack Attack

Codemasters has closed its Website after substantial customer Information was stolen over a week ago

13 years ago

Turkey Arrests 32 Anonymous Hacker Suspects

Thirty-two people have been arrested in Turkey on suspicion of involvement with hacktivist group Anonymous

13 years ago

Miscreants Fined For Selling T-Mobile Customer Data

Two men have been fined a total of more than £70,000 for illegally selling lucrative customer data to third parties

13 years ago

Illegal Spam Firms Run Like Legitimate Businesses

Spam operations are run like legal business enterprises and rely on banks’ merchant services to function

13 years ago

Spanish Police Arrest Anonymous Operation Hackers

Spanish authorities claim capture of three members of the Anonymous denial-of-service hacker group

13 years ago