Security

US Plans Stricter Laws For Government Network Hacks

US lawmakers are revisiting a cyber-security proposal which would make hacking government Websites a felony

14 years ago

Nokia Revamps Navteq Location Services Unit

Nokia is merging Navteq with its other location operations, with the aim of kickstarting new services

14 years ago

DNS-Based Malware Protection Service From OpenDNS

The OpenDNS malware protection service will detect and block all DNS requests to known malicious servers

14 years ago

Brazilian Government Latest Lulzsec Victim

Websites of the Brazilian government have suffered DDoS attacks, adding to a growing list of 'hacktivism' victims

14 years ago

Acronis Looks To SMBs With Updated Backup Tool

Acronis has upgraded its disaster recovery platform with the release of Backup & Recovery 11

14 years ago

Lulzsec Denies Arrested Suspect Was Hacking Leader

A 19-year-old alleged Lulzsec member has been arrested by British police in joint-operation with the FBI

14 years ago

Lulzsec Claims To Have Stolen UK Census Data

The Office of National Statistics is scrambling to check if Lulzsec has the details of every person in the UK

14 years ago

Bitcoin Value Plummets Following Hack

A Japan-based Bitcoin exchange is planning to return to service 'soon' following a security incident

14 years ago

SOCA Website Back Up After Lulzsec DDoS Attack

UPDATED: the Serious and Organised Crime Agency is back online after a hit by hacktivists Lulzsec's 'Operation Anti-Security'

14 years ago

Hackers Poison iCloud Search Results

Scammers have tapped into iCloud interest to direct search users to a fake Windows antivirus

14 years ago

Security: Passwords Are Still the Problem

Despite an endless series of breaches, the problems with passwords are really very basic, says Fahmida Y Rashid

14 years ago

Lulzsec and Anonymous Team Against Governments

High-profile hacktivists Lulzsec and Anonymous call for attacks on governments and banks

14 years ago

Sega Latest Victim In Hacking Spree

Lulzsec has offered to help investigate the breach, in which personal data on 1.3 million Sega Pass users was stolen

14 years ago

Chinese Weapon Systems Vulnerable To SCADA Hack

Hackers could potentially gain control of Chinese weapon systems, US Homeland Security has warned

14 years ago

Survey Reveals Extent of Internet Phone Scam

A new survey has revealed the true impact from the phone fraudsters who warn users their PCs are at risk

14 years ago

British Student Faces Extradition For Web Piracy

A student at Sheffield Hallam could be extradited to the US for linking to copyrighted content on his website

14 years ago

Lulzsec Publishes 62,000 Passwords

The hacker group Lulzsec's latest strike has been aimed at individual users, resulting in consumer fraud

14 years ago

Virgin Media Warns Customers Of SpyEye Infection

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

14 years ago

Regulators Blast Facebook Over Face Recognition

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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

Gartner Touts Reprovisioning For Threat Protection

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

14 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

14 years ago

Adobe Update Patches 36 Critical Bugs

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

14 years ago

APT Detection Appliance Launched By Trend Micro

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

14 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

14 years ago