Security

Is Facebook A Sin?

Surprising numbers of people are turning Facebook off for Lent in a bid to curb their cravings. This is one more example…

15 years ago

How To Fight The Zeus Botnet In Your Enterprise

Zeus is among the most popular crimeware toolkits out there, and was placed in the spotlight last week due to…

15 years ago

Apple Bans Adult-Apps From Online Store

Apple may be censoring adult-themed apps from its App Store, according to developers

15 years ago

US Student Accuses School Of Cyber-Spying

The FBI is investigating that US school officials used a remote-controlled Webcam to spy on a high school student.

15 years ago

Kneber Botnet Preys On Social Network Data

Researchers have found a 75,000-strong botnet which harvests login credentials for Facebook, Yahoo and other sites

15 years ago

Cisco And HP Decide To Part Ways

IT giants Cisco and HP will continue to honour contracts with existing customers, but the intensified competition to build data…

15 years ago

Microsoft Blames Malware For XP’s ‘Blue Screen Of Death’

Microsoft has confirmed that the “blue screen of death” that last week plagued some Windows XP machines following Patch Tuesday,…

15 years ago

Stonewood Offers Ultra-Secure SSDs

A British company is now offering an ultra-secure solid state drive (SSD) that is approved to carry top secret government…

15 years ago

Security Expert Rejects MP’s Twitter Hacking Claims

UK MP David Wright failed to tell the truth over an insulting Twitter message, according to Sophos security expert Graham…

15 years ago

Google Surprised By Negative Backlash Against Buzz

Google did not expect the negative backlash to Google Buzz when it launched, and has had to work around the…

15 years ago

UK Criticised For Surveillance Culture

Updated: The UK government was criticised for having allowed a surveillance culture to develop, at a Westminster meeting

15 years ago

Google Patches Buzz Security Hole

Google has fixed a bug affecting the mobile version of its new social networking service, Google Buzz, that left users'…

15 years ago

Microsoft: Downed Server Caused Windows Live Outage

Microsoft has suggested that a Windows Live outage on 16 February was caused by a crashed server

15 years ago

Ebay Pledges To Fix Security Flaw

eBay is working to patch a cross-site request forgery vulnerability recently uncovered by a security researcher

15 years ago

Conservative Anti-Surveillance Plans Will Boost ICO

Conservative plans to curb government misuse of data in the UK will include a big boost to the powers of…

15 years ago

Most Laptop Thefts Take Place At Home

New research has shown that more laptops get stolen from homes than anywhere else, including airports and public transportation

15 years ago

Government To Combat Fraud With Cyber Enforcement Team

The Office of Fair Trading is funding a new project to tackle online fraud, after if was found that nearly…

15 years ago

Chip And PIN Is ‘Broken’, Researchers Claim

Researchers have found a vulnerability in the Chip and PIN protocol that allows fraudsters to use stolen credit and debit…

15 years ago

Climate Email Investigator Resigns After Backing Researchers

One of the investigators looking into claims that climate change scientists covered up flawed data has been forced to resign…

15 years ago

Windows XP Crippled With ‘Blue Screen’ Following Patch Update

Some users are claiming that Windows XP has been crippled with the “blue screen of death” following Microsoft's Patch Tuesday…

15 years ago

Most Businesses Unaware Of Data Breach, Survey Warns

The majority of businesses are unaware that they have been attacked and have suffered a data breach, according to new…

15 years ago

Convicts’ Facebook Pages Removed After Victim Abuse

Facebook has taken down thirty pages belonging to prisoners, who used the site to communicate with associates on the outside,…

15 years ago

MWC: Home Office Unveils Tech To Combat Phone Theft

The Home Office has unveiled several technologies to combat phone theft, including a system that uses contactless communication to authenticate…

15 years ago

NHS Pages Novell For Cloud Workload Management

The NHS has expanded its networking deal with Novell, which will now provide workload management as well as security for…

15 years ago

Labour Party Slammed For Breaking Privacy Rules

Information Commissioner's Office threatens prosecution if Labour persists with phone spam

15 years ago

Ex-Intel Exec Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud

Rajiv Goel, an ex-Intel executive, pleads guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy in connection with the massive Wall Street insider…

15 years ago

Imperva Looks To Close Data Breach Loopholes

Imperva is offering customers in the EMEA region a service that will locate potentially sensitive data inside an organisation so…

15 years ago

Government Tells Kids To ‘Zip It, Block It, Flag It’

The UK government has launched an Internet safety campaign, supported by Microsoft's IE8 "panic button" add-on, on Safer Internet Day

15 years ago

China Shuts Down Hacker Training Site

China officials have shut down Black Hawk Safety Net, the country's biggest hacker training Website, and arrested three people for…

15 years ago

China Shuts Down Hacker School

The largest hacker training site in China has been shut down by the authorities, according to Chinese newspaper reports

15 years ago