Security

Protecting Your Business From Social Networking Suicide

The pros of social networking outweigh the security cons, but the risks to corporate image and data are still significant

14 years ago

Review: YouSendIt Enables Secure File Transfer — Maybe

YouSendIt makes emailing large, sensitive files secure and manageable by avoiding the pain of using FTP clients and servers

14 years ago

MI5 Laying Off ‘Bonds’ To Hire More Techie ‘Qs’

The Security Service has announced plans to lay-off some of its intelligence staff and replace them with more IT-savvy operatives

14 years ago

Data Breach Remains Top Security Worry

The ever-present threat of data breaches is keeping business executives awake at night, according to a new survey from IBM

14 years ago

YouTube Fails – But Not Because of China

A YouTube outage was due to a technical fault, not retaliation by the Chinese government, Google has said

15 years ago

Bletchley Park Gets £250,000 Government Funding

Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 government grant to pay for repairs to the…

15 years ago

Cyber-security Bill Gains Approval From Senate Panel

A bill that promises to introduce tighter cyber-security for the US government has passed its first hurdle in the US…

15 years ago

TJX Hacker Sentenced To 20 Years

The hacker mastermind behind the data breaches of TJX, Barnes & Noble, OfficeMax and other retailers has been sentenced to…

15 years ago

Apple iPads Will Be Used At Work

Users will take their iPads to work, despite the doubts of IT managers who still don't trust Apple's iPhone, a…

15 years ago

Apple iPhone And Popular Browsers Exposed in Hacking Contest

The annual hacking contest at the CanSecWest security conference has once again exposed vulnerabilities, this time with Firefox and Internet…

15 years ago

Twitter Wages War On Spam

Twitter engineers have brought down the level of spam on the site to just one percent, while the GSMA is…

15 years ago

A Censored Internet Is Google’s Worst Nightmare

Google has been praised for taking the moral high ground on search censorship in China, but Google's motives are far…

15 years ago

Zurich Insurance Data Loss ‘Beyond Unacceptable’

A data backup tape lost by Zurich Insurance on its way to South Africa contained the financial details of 46,000…

15 years ago

Google Adding Hack Warning To Gmail Accounts

Google has added a new feature to Gmail to alert users to suspicious activity and advise them their accounts may…

15 years ago

US Slams Microsoft China Search For ‘Enabling Tyranny’

Congressional leaders hail Google's decision to stop censoring search results in China while criticising Microsoft for continuing to do so

15 years ago

Google Blames Bug, Not Hackers, For Language Glitch

Google has been quick to state that a software bug, not hackers, was responsible for its corporate information web pages…

15 years ago

Don’t Trust Cloud, Says Government Security Adviser

Firewalls block most public sector agencies from Internet applications due to perceived risks

15 years ago

Mozilla Fixes Critical Security Flaw With Firefox 3.6.2

Mozilla has moved quickly to plug the security vulnerability in Firefox after the German government advised the public to stop…

15 years ago

Staff Ignoring Corporate Social Networking Restrictions

A new study has found that half of organisations are still restricting the use of social media tools, but half…

15 years ago

Google Stops Censoring Search Results In China

Making good on its threat, Google has ceased censoring its Google search results on Google.cn

15 years ago

Germany Warns Web Users To Stop Using Firefox

The German Government has warned web users to switch browsers until Mozilla patches a security flaw in its Firefox browser

15 years ago

Seattle Named As Riskiest Online City By Symantec

Web surfers in beware, after a Symantec survey named the Pacific Northwest city of Seattle as riskiest location in the…

15 years ago

UK Military Forces Google to Remove Street View Images

The UK government has forced Google to remove images from Street View which breached the Official Secrets Act, according to…

15 years ago

Insurance Company Loses Customer Data

Eight laptops have been stolen or lost from the London Mutual Insurance Society, containing details of more than 2,000 customers

15 years ago

Facebook Reaches Compromise Over CEOP Button

The social network has finally agreed to use the child protection button on its site, while launching a PR offensive…

15 years ago

RSA Reveals Zeus Trojan Cyber-Crime Infrastructure

Security researchers at RSA spotlight the cyber-infrastructure that props up malware like the Zeus Trojan by providing so-called bulletproof hosting…

15 years ago

Lords Demand NATO, EU Cooperate On Cyber Security

The House of Lords has criticised NATO's lack of cooperation with the EU, claiming member states are being left vulnerable…

15 years ago

Home Secretary Meets Facebook Over Child Protection Button

The social network giant’s sustained refusal to adopt the UK's Ceop online protection scheme for children has led to a…

15 years ago

Digital Economy Bill Approved By Lords

The House of Lords has approved the Digital Economy Bill, leaving the fate of file-sharers in the hands of the…

15 years ago

Red Hat Virtualisation To Power IBM Cloud Service

By including the new Red Hat virtualisation-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn't exist…

15 years ago