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BBC Suffers Christmas Server Breach
Access to BBC ftp server said to have been sold on underground forums
Google Secures Gmail Images
Gmail users will no longer have to click to display images in emails, due to a new security feature
Alan Turing Granted Posthumous Royal Pardon
Codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing is granted a pardon 61 years after he died
Declassified Documents Prove 9/11 Led To Mass NSA Surveillance
Fear of another Al-Qaeda attack kept the intelligence agencies collecting ever increasing amounts of data
Hackers Release Evasi0n7 iOS 7 Jailbreak
Evad3rs release new version of Evasi0n, but says don't use it for piracy
RSA Denies Taking $10m NSA Bribe To Install Crypto Backdoor
RSA denies the NSA paid it to ship a deliberately weakened encryption tool to customers
AT&T Follows Verizon In Transparency Report Pledge
AT&T to publish first transparency report next year but says US government should be more open
Relax – Credit Cards Cover Commerce Breaches
Check your Christmas credit card bills, don't be scared of security breaches, says Sean Michael Kerner
ZeroAccess Fraudsters Fly ‘White Flag’
The cyber-crime group behind the ZeroAccess botnet appears to have given up on resuming control of its 1.3 million compromised PCs, following law enforcement action
Verizon To Publish Transparency Reports In 2014
Verizon to publish list of law enforcement requests twice a year, but says its hands are tied on security demands
IT Life: Sharing Data Makes For Security
for Barry Shteiman, security is all about people sharing information to keep each other secure
Global Bug Bounty Scheme Urged To Tackle Cyber Crime
A new study suggests that all software companies should buy critical code flaws to close cyber-crime vulnerabilities
ICO Publishes Privacy Guidelines For App Developers
Have a clear privacy policy or risk alienating users, warns the data protection watchdog
Blue Coat Buys Norwegian Sandboxing Experts Norman Shark
Half of Norman Shark technology has already been integrated into Blue Coat products
US Retailer Target Investigating Massive Credit Card Breach
As many as 40 million credit cards potentially compromised as Target brings in law enforcement
NSA Slapped By Courts, IT Firms And Obama’s Advisors
The US government will ignore much that Obama's advisors ask for, says Wayne Rash, but some things will change
Washington Post Hackers Steal Passwords
Washington Post gets hacked again and China is the chief suspect
Bitcoin In Trouble As Chinese Exchanges Stop Taking Deposits In Yuan
Virtual currency loses almost a third of its value in just one day
Bruce Schneier Leaves BT As Surveillance ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Denied
Schneier isn't leaving because of alleged BT connections with GCHQ spying, as "conspiracy theories" are shrugged off by the telecoms giant
Tech Titans Meet Obama To Urge NSA Surveillance Reform
Obama faces the dream team of Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Schmidt and Tim Cook
BT Forces Customers To Make Parental Controls Choice
BT will offer network level parental controls to customers - and there's no sitting on the fence
Cisco: Snowden Leak Hit Chinese Sales ‘Unfairly’
Questions about Cisco's role in NSA surveillance have hit Cisco's sales unfairly, the UK director of security tells TechWeek
Big Android Botnet Sends SMS Messages To China
South Korean phones send stolen messages to Chinese email addresses
CloudLock Targets Google Apps Security Issues
CloudLock's free tool is designed to help Google Apps administrators track user activity within a domain to limit security risks
Home Office Leaks Details Of More Than 1,500 Illegal Immigrants
The confidential information was visible on the Home Office website for two weeks
French Intelligence Granted More Snooping Powers Than NSA
France complains of NSA surveillance - but has given French intelligence services more powers to monitor calls and emails
Cloud Databases: Another Worrying Attack Vector
Cloud databases are worrying things from a security perspective, warns Tom Brewster
Phishing Crook Jailed Over Attempts To Steal £1.5m From Students
Man sentenced to three years and nine months after he tried to steal vast sums from hundreds of victims
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Lawsuit
Google will argue in a jurisdiction hearing today that privacy lawsuits over alleged tracking of mobile and desktop users' browsing activities should not be heard in the UK