Security

Law Firm Defends Illegal Fileshare Hunt

A law firm that specialises in anti-piracy lawsuits has defended its controversial actions, which have been branded as bullying and…

15 years ago

Future Operating Systems Will Be Built For Security

Software vendors have been making their products more secure and have been providing tools and best-practice guidelines for application developers…

15 years ago

Review: Hushmail Simplifies Business Email Encryption

Hush Communications Canada's Hushmail Business is a hosted email encryption service that carries no client-side installation requirements

15 years ago

Switching Back To Windows – The End Of An Era

Cameron Sturdevant's coverage of Apple products is coming to an end but, as we enter the cloud computing age, Sturdevant…

15 years ago

Google Researchers Reveal Extent Of Fake AV

Researchers at Google have revealed that rogue AV is behind 60 percent of the malware on domains that include Google…

15 years ago

Ofcom Prepares Copyright Code For Digital Economy Bill

Ofcom has begun working on the draft code of practice for ISPs having to deal with copyright infringement under the…

15 years ago

Stop Malware Before Data Breaches Damage Your Business

Data breaches carried out by malicious insiders may be uncommon, but the damage they wreak can be catastrophic if detected…

15 years ago

Facebook Resists CEOP Panic Button

CEOP understands child protection, we know web design, says Facebook

15 years ago

Nasa Hacker’s Mother Standing In Election

Janis Sharp blames the former home secretary for backing the Extradition Act

15 years ago

Can Users Change The IT Climate Of Fear?

Security vendors always use fear to sell, but Peter Judge is pleased to hear more from end users in the…

15 years ago

Facebook Execs To Meet Child Protection Agency

Buttons don't help, Facebook says to CEOP child protection body

15 years ago

Oracle Database Attack To Be Shown in Europe

This week's Black Hat Europe event will be shown how user credentials can be stolen from Oracle databases

15 years ago

Digital Economy Bill Welcomed By Supporters

The music industry welcomed it, the ISPs panned it. The Digital Economy Bill got Royal Assent and is now law

15 years ago

Adobe To Activate Silent Update Tool For Reader, Acrobat

Adobe Systems is to activate a new updater tool that requires no user interaction, in next week's security update for…

15 years ago

Microsoft Readies Multiple Fixes For Patch Tuesday

Microsoft is to release fixes for 25 vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office and Exchange on Patch Tuesday

15 years ago

Windows 7 SP1 Beta Leaked Online

A beta of Microsoft's upcoming Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 has appeared on a number of Torrent websites

15 years ago

Government e-Borders Scheme Faces “Impossible” Schedule

The Home Affairs Select Committee has said in a new report that the Government's troubled e-Border's programme is 'impossible to…

15 years ago

FBI Cracks Down On Global eBay Scam

Law enforcement officials arrested 70 people in a series of raids all over the world tied to an online scam…

15 years ago

Apple iPad Hacked And Slated For 24 April UK Release

Hackers have reportedly already cracked open the iPad. Meanwhile another report has suggested the device will hit UK shores on…

15 years ago

Adobe Issues Advice To Avoid PDF Security Attack

Adobe has issued a workaround for a PDF vulnerability that would allow hackers to exploit its PDF Reader

15 years ago

Google In Vietnam War Of Words Over Cyber Attacks

The Vietnamese government refuted accusations by Google of a cyber-attack targeting opponents of a Chinese-backed mining operation

15 years ago

Digital Economy Bill Gets Second Commons Reading

A handful of MPs debated the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which the government intends to force through before the end…

15 years ago

Researcher Uncovers PDF Executable Vulnerability

A security researcher has discovered a new way exploit Adobe Reader and other PDF-viewing software, but without actually using a…

15 years ago

Reject Microsoft Office Attachments Says Free Software Group

Just say no to Word, Excel attachments say free and open software campaigners

15 years ago

US Court Rejects Calls For Mobile Phone Cancer Labelling

Industry pressure forces changes to a proposed law that would have required cell phone makers to put labels on their…

15 years ago

Mandelson To Rap On Anti File-Sharing Single

Business secretary may be turning his talent for spin to the turntables

15 years ago

Chinese Yahoo Users Suffer Hacked Email Accounts

The Yahoo email accounts of some human rights activists and journalists in China and Taiwan have reportedly been hacked into

15 years ago

Microsoft Issues Fix For IE Zero-Day Bug

Microsoft has patched a total of ten vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer, after issuing an emergency security update

15 years ago

MPs Say Climate Unit Blocked Data Requests

Most Climategate allegations are false, although Professor Phil Jones failed to answer all requests for information, an MPs' committee has…

15 years ago

Google And Microsoft Push For Electronic Privacy

Companies ranging from Google to Microsoft to Salesforce.com have joined forces with the American Civil Liberties Union and others to…

15 years ago