Security

Mac Malware Pretends To Be Share-Trading App

Newly discovered Mac malware includes copy of real share-trading app, but also steals data and carries out other malicious functions…

5 years ago

Targeted Cyber-Attacks Hit Transportation Firms

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 finds previously unknown tools used in attacks on transportation and shipping firms in Kuwait

5 years ago

Google Changes Terms For Virtual Assistant Transcripts

Company to require users to reconfirm if they want to allow humans to listen to Assistant recordings, following privacy row

5 years ago

Huawei CFO Faces Canadian Court As US-China Row Escalates

Lawyers for detained Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou argue Canadian authorities acted illegally in arresting her at the request…

5 years ago

Microsoft President Calls For US To End Huawei Ban

US national security will not be impacted if Huawei is able to use Microsoft's OS and software, says Brad Smith

5 years ago

US Government Sues Edward Snowden Over Book

Former NSA whistleblower and resident of Moscow Edward Snowden is sued by US authorities

5 years ago

Gatwick Airport To Use Facial Recognition For Boarding

Gatwick to become first British airport to use facial recognition for passenger boarding without checks

5 years ago

Multiple Vulnerabilities in D-Link, Comba Routers, Warns Trustwave

D-Link and Comba slated for poor response to discovery of multiple vulnerabilities found on their routers

5 years ago

Google Follows Firefox Lead With Chrome DoH Test

Google confirms it will test DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in Chrome 78, days after Mozilla makes Firefox announcement

5 years ago

Mozilla Strengthens Privacy With DoH Switch On

Another move to strengthen its privacy credentials, as Mozilla gradually switches on DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for its Firefox browser

5 years ago

Texas Confirms No Payment Over Ransomware Attack

Just say no. None of municipalities crippled by ransomware attack have paid the hackers, Texas confirms

5 years ago

Wikipedia Website Knocked Offline By DDoS Attack

Outage for Wikipedia website last week after DDoS attack on the online encyclopaedia

5 years ago

Symantec Consumer Division Sale To Equity Firms – Report

Private equity groups sniff around remaining consumer division of Symantec, after enterprise sale to Broadcom

5 years ago

Apple Hits Back At Google Over iPhone Hack Report

Fight, fight. Google security researchers overstated the level of threat to iPhone users, Apple alleges

5 years ago

Database Exposes 419m Facebook Users Phone Numbers

Privacy lapse after a database containing millions of Facebook users phone numbers was left unprotected online

5 years ago

Hacker Group Looks To Gain Control Over Vulnerable WordPress Sites

Attack that began in July takes on new form as hackers begin creating rogue administrator accounts on unpatched sites

5 years ago

Hackers Take Over Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Account

The account was used to broadcast offensive messages to more than four million followers following a hack of Dorsey's mobile…

5 years ago

ECB Warns Of ‘Beguiling’ Siren Call Of Facebook’s Libra

Libra cryptocurrency could undermine European Central Bank's ability to set monetary policy, and public trust in money itself, bank warns

5 years ago

Google Warns Of ‘Sustained Effort’ To Hack Apple iPhones

Google's Project Zero warns of a 'sustained effort' to hack iPhones over past two years, via poisoned websites

5 years ago

French Cyber Police Takedown Paris-based Botnet

C3N cybercrime unit, along with the FBI and Avast, take down French botnet that infected 850,000 computers

5 years ago

Dixons Carphone Hits Back At McAfee Lawsuit

McAfee is suing Dixons for £30 million, but British retailer says McAfee AV did not work with Windows 10S

5 years ago

Cyberattack Could Trigger NATO Response

NATO chief warns serious cyber strike on any NATO nation could trigger Article 5 response from the alliance

5 years ago

Many Consumers Still Use Unsupported Operating Systems – Kaspersky

The long goodbye. Many consumers can't bear to say goodbye to Windows XP or Windows Vista, Kaspersky finds

5 years ago

Court Orders Jailed Hacker’s Seized Bitcoin To Be Sold To Pay Victims

Nearly £1m in Bitcoin taken from imprisoned hacker Grant West is to be sold to compensate victims, in a first-of-its-kind…

5 years ago

Capital One Hack Suspect Ordered To Remain In Prison

Seattle resident seen as presenting a flight risk and a threat to herself and others following breach that affected 106…

5 years ago

Most Industrial Cyber Incidents Down To Human Error – Kaspersky

Pesky humans are responsible for half of cybersecurity incidents in industrial networks, Kaspersky warns

5 years ago

Texas Ransomware Hackers Demand $2.5 Million

Ransomware attack on small local government systems in Texas collectively demands $2.5m

5 years ago

Researcher Releases Steam Vulnerability After Valve Ban

Researcher who clashed with Valve over Steam vulnerability, which then banned him, makes public the flaws

5 years ago

Biometrics Database Breach Not So Big, Says Suprema

'Errr yes it was' security researchers insist, estimating that 'large amounts of biometrics data' has been exposed

5 years ago