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29 Arrested In £7.5m Credit Card Fraud Bust
Crooks stole data from point of sale systems and created fake credit cards
Microsoft Windows Zero-Day Exploited In Pakistan Attacks
Attacks linked to strikes on Pakistani government bodies
Lenovo BlackBerry Bid Is Blocked By Canadian Government – Report
The Canadian government vetoed any chance of Lenovo buying BlackBerry, according to reports
Microsoft Expands Bug Bounty To Tackle Exploits
Microsoft is a late comer to bug bounties, but now expands the scheme to offer more tempting rewards
Privacy Group Complaint Says Telecoms Giants ‘Colluded’ With GCHQ Snooping
BT, Verizon and Level 3 amongst those included in a Privacy International complaint with the OECD
NSA Probably Couldn’t Crack Merkel’s BlackBerry
The NSA spied on Angela Merkel - but Wayne Rash thinks her phone's encryption kept the spooks out
DARPA Launches Cyber-Defence Automation Challenge
The research organisation of the US Department of Defence is offering a $2 million top prize to spur the development of automated network defence
Git Soothes PHP Security Fears… For Now
Art Coviello: Attacking Anonymity, Just In The Right Places
RSA chief explains why he thinks anonymity is the enemy of privacy, but is he more than a little motivated by commercial concerns?
Swisscom Pitches ‘Swiss Cloud’ Privacy Credentials To Concerned Businesses
Swisscom's 'Swiss Cloud' services could be attractive to companies concerned about the extent of government surveillance
Human Rights Groups Urge Cameron To Rethink GCHQ Snooping Reaction
Cameron's reaction to GCHQ's snooping has eroded the freedoms of the press and ignored threats to civil liberties, open letter warns
Gartner Sees Cloud Security Services Surge
Cloud-based tokenisation and encryption, vulnerability assessment, SIEM and web application firewalls will see the strongest growth, according to Gartner
Co-Founder Of Liberty Reserve Will Spend Up To 75 Years In Prison
Vladimir Kats pleads guilty to money laundering and unlicensed money transmitting charges
IP Protect Expo 2014
IP Protect Expo 2014 (www.ip-protectexpo.com) is a trade exhibition alongside a separate conference programme taking place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London on March 11th and 12th 2014.
German Journalists Urged To Avoid Google And Yahoo
German journalist union advises its members to avoid Google and Yahoo services after NSA snooping allegations
Edward Snowden To Work As Tech Support For A Russian Website
Whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to start his new job on Friday
Google And Yahoo Fibre Networks Allegedly Infiltrated By The NSA
The NSA could have harvested information from fibre optic channels connecting Google data centres
BT Olympic Security Chief: Cyber Terrorism No Real Threat
Most significant threat to London 2012 website came from hacktivists, as danger of digital terrorism practically non-existent
Silent Circle And Lavabit Creating Anti-Snooping Email Alternative
Edward Snowden's old email provider and Silent Circle announce the Dark Mail Alliance
Forgotten Investment In Bitcoin Buys Man A Flat In Central Oslo
In 2009, Kristoffer Koch bought 5,000 bitcoins for £16 and forgot about it
Women Represent Just 11 Percent Of The InfoSec Workforce
A survey finds that women in the industry have the same experience and technical background as men, but a broader range of skills
21 More Pirate Websites To Be Blocked By UK ISPs
BeeMP3, FilesTube and TorrentHound join the likes of the Pirate Bay on the copyright holders’ blacklist
XP ‘Six Times More Likely To Get Infected’ Than Windows 8
Microsoft says XP really isn't all that safe to use when compared to its latest OS
ICO Fines North East Lincolnshire Council £80,000 For Lost USB Stick
ICO dishes fine after a teach lost a memory stick with information about 286 children with special needs
Scores Of iOS Apps ‘Vulnerable To HTTP Hijacking’
Simple flaw could allow hackers to direct iOS users to nasty websites, says Skycure
Mozilla Adds Web Audio Capabilities And Security Updates To Firefox 25
Mozilla updates the desktop and mobile versions of the open source browser
RSA’s Art Coviello: Anonymity Is The Enemy Of Privacy
RSA boss and privacy advocates at loggerheads again, as Coviello accused of ignoring the furore around NSA surveillance
Adobe Hack ‘Affected 38 Million Users’
Millions of active users have their encrypted passwords pilfered, whilst Photoshop source code also thought to have been compromised
Google reCAPTCHA Revamp Aims At Ease Of Use
An update to the way Google's reCAPTCHA anti-bot system works aims to automatically determine whether a visitor is a human or a bot