Security

iOS Update: Apple Doesn’t Care Where You Are

The latest iOS update from Apple reduces the location cache. Now it’s time for Google to do the same for…

13 years ago

Twitter User ‘Breaks’ Celebrity Injunctions

Lone tweeter challenges the role of online media in privacy law by revealing puported celebrity injunctions

13 years ago

Cloud Providers Deny Responsibilty For Security

Cloud vendors do not think data security is their responsibility, according to a Ponemon study

13 years ago

Reding Looks To Extend EU Rules On Data Breaches

Following the Sony hack breach, EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has called for sites to tell users of any breaches

13 years ago

Anonymous Denies Responsibility for Playstation Hack

Sony blamed Anonymous for the Playstation cyber attack - but the group says it was not involved

13 years ago

Sony Faces The Music, But Blames Anonymous

Sony has hired investigators and accused Anonymous of distracting it during the Playstation hack

13 years ago

First Crimeware Kit Targeting Apple Released

Malware toolkit for Apple Mac OS X discovered by researchers - iPad and Linux could be next on the list

13 years ago

Malicious Web Activity Declined In April, Says Symantec

Symantec.cloud reported a significant drop in spam and malware sites in April, MessageLabs Intelligence reports

13 years ago

Police Raid Hits Google Office In South Korea

Police have raided the South Korean office of Google investigating the search engine's use of location data

13 years ago

Sony Networks And Qriocity May Kill The Fat Cat

Sony has sprung into action to win back the esteem of the customers betrayed by its poor security regime. Too…

13 years ago

Symantec Extends Backup Exec To The Cloud

Symantec's Backup Exec.cloud is aimed at SMBs that want to wash their hands of IT infrastructure

13 years ago

Epsilon Data Breach Could Cost Billions

The damaging data breach at email marketing company Epsilon could end up costing £2.4 billion

13 years ago

Assange Says Facebook Is American ‘Spying Machine’

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has dismissed Facebook as nothing more than a spying machine for the CIA

13 years ago

Mac OS X Hit By Crimeware Kit, SEO Poisoning Attack

Apple's Mac OS X is being targeted by a search engine poisoning attack and the first Mac-compatible crimeware kit

13 years ago

Sony Reveals Another User Data Breach

Sony has discovered a second major breach of its systems, compromising millions of additional accounts

13 years ago

Sony, Amazon Problems Aren’t Unique To The Cloud

Cloud services aren’t inherently less secure than those held in data centres. In fact, they may be more secure

13 years ago

Spammers And Scammers Make Bin Laden Killing

Scammers have wasted no time in putting out Osama bin Laden rogue AV, fake codecs and Facebook scams

13 years ago

New Malware Tricks Exploit PDF Vulnerability

Researchers have identified PDF files, sent as email attachments, that encode attack code inside an image file

13 years ago

‘Clueless Politicians’ Propose European Great Firewall

The EU is proposing its own “great firewall” despite ongoing controversy over its Chinese counterpart

13 years ago

Hacked Playstation Credit Cards ‘Up For Sale’

The stolen credit card details from the Playstation hack is reportedly up for sale on hacker forums

13 years ago

Researchers Hide Files On Unencrypted Disks

A process, devised by researchers in California and Pakistan, hides data on hard disks "in plain sight"

13 years ago

FBI Reprogram Botnet To Wipe Out Coreflood

The FBI has seized control of the Coreflood botnet, now it is cleaning-up and killing the web of zombies

13 years ago

Apple’s Reputation Marred By iPhone Location Tracking

Brand perception of the iPhone took a dive after reports appeared about Apple recording user location data

13 years ago

Fake Antivirus Scanner Found On Mobile Handsets

Fake antivirus scanners are now migrating across to mobile handsets warn security researchers

13 years ago

Government Cyber-Security Spending Breakdown

The big spend on cyber-security was outlined by Ian McGhie at the Counter Terror Expo in Olympia, London

13 years ago

ICO To Investigate UK Effects Of Sony Data Breach

The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating Sony's data breach to see if there is a case to be answered

13 years ago

Security Firms Warn Of Royal Wedding Malware

Spammers and hackers are jumping on the royal wedding bandwagon in order to make some quick cash

13 years ago

Cyber-Criminals Are Phishing From Free Domains

A survey finds phishing gangs' abuse of free allocations has rocketed an atoll group to be a top country domain

13 years ago

Westminster Abbey Blocks Twitter At Royal Wedding

Signal jamming technology will be deployed at Westminster Abbey to avoid disruptions to the royal wedding

13 years ago

Amazon EC2 Outage Will Not Be Forgotten

Amazon has waved the all-clear flag, but there still are a lot of smoldering IT managers who haven't yet cooled…

13 years ago