Security

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

14 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…

14 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

14 years ago

Epsilon Data Breach Could Cost Billions

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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

Sony Reveals Another User Data Breach

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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

‘Clueless Politicians’ Propose European Great Firewall

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

14 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

14 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"

14 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

14 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

14 years ago

Fake Antivirus Scanner Found On Mobile Handsets

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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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

14 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…

14 years ago

Spammers And Cold Callers Face £500,000 Fine

The Information Commissioner will be cracking down on unwanted email and phone marketing from 25 May

14 years ago

US Call For Public-Private Alliance To Fight Cyber-Threat

US DHS Secretary calls for the public, government and private industry to work together against cyber-attacks

14 years ago

Microsoft Walks Into Phone Tracking Controversy

Windows Phone 7 is also logging users' movements as the smartphone tracking controversy deepens

14 years ago

PlayStation Network Breach Compromises 77m Users

Sony takes a week to tell customers their personal data has been put at risk by PlayStation Network hack

14 years ago

Google DC Security Show Inspired By Facebook Open

Google gives a sneak peek at its data centre security practices, showing both the physical and virtual measures

14 years ago

Iran Sees ‘Stars’ Virus As A Second Cyber-Attack

An Iranian military official accused the US and Israel of launching another virus to compromise Iranian systems

14 years ago

Cyber-Threats Could Engulf National Infrastructures

Cyber-attacks are increasing but national infrastructures are ill-prepared to defend themselves. Urgent action, not endless planning, is required, argues Eric…

14 years ago

Report: Claims Of Advanced Attacks Usually Wrong

Companies increasingly calling 'advanced persistent threat' instead of admitting to security system failures

14 years ago