Security

Google Searches Blocked In China

Chinese web users are complaining that standard searches on the Google Hong Kong website have been blocked

15 years ago

Digital Bill Protesters Plan April Fool Flashmob

Moves to push the Digital Economy Bill through parliament make a joke of democracy, says Open Rights Group

15 years ago

ICO Slams Council For Data Loss, Prepares For Fines

The Information Commissioner's Office has criticised a city council for the loss of voter information shortly before new powers to…

15 years ago

File-Sharing Case Against UK Teenager Is Dropped

A teenager charged with distributing copyrighted material using the BitTorrent site Oink has been acquitted due to lack of evidence

15 years ago

Former IBM CEO-Contender Guilty Of Securities Fraud

Robert Moffat, a 31-year IBM veteran and at one time considered a possible IBM CEO candidate, pleads guilty to his…

15 years ago

US Student Loan Contractor Admits Massive Data Breach

Millions of student loan records have been stolen in another massive data breach, this time from a US federal loan…

15 years ago

Facebook To Allow Third-Party Access To User Info

Facebook has announced another update to its privacy policy, allowing some third party applications access to users' information without prior…

15 years ago

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

15 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

15 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

15 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

15 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