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DEF CON: 30 Percent Of Mobile Malware Made By 10 Russian Firms

Russian mobile malware factories working with thousands of affiliates to exploit Android users

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Granted Temporary Asylum In Russia

After two months in legal limbo, the whistleblower finally leaves the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow

11 years ago

Vodafone Merges European Divisions Into One Super-Region

Vodafone combines struggling European units into one business unit to be headed by Philipp Humm

11 years ago

O2 4G Arrives In London, Leeds And Bradford On 29 August

O2 4G will launch at the end of this month, with 13 cities covered in LTE by the end of…

11 years ago

BlackHat: Researchers Sneak Malware Past iOS Security Protections

"Jekyll" exploit can introduce malicious functionality after Apple checks, whilst bespoke chargers can install malware on iPhones

11 years ago

NSA Chief Heckled At BlackHat As Agency Defends XKeyscore

Alexander fends off attacks from BlackHat audience member

11 years ago

NSA XKeyscore Tool ‘Could Crack VPNs And Expose The Anonymous’

A slide leaked by Snowden reads: "Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me the data…

11 years ago

Android ‘Is The Most Fragmented It Has Ever Been’

Open Signal says there are 11,868 different Android devices, presenting challenges and benefits to developers

11 years ago

Samsung Accused Of Cheating, Designing Galaxy S4 To Beat Benchmarks

The Korean company denies it used performance enhancing code in its smartphone

11 years ago

Facebook Stock Nears IPO Float Price

Facebook shares are on a roll and have recovered to almost reach their IPO float price

11 years ago

From Bahrain To Belarus: Attack Of The Fake Activists

EXCLUSIVE: Activists in Bahrain are being targeted by IP trackers via Twitter, whilst fake domains are causing problems for civil…

11 years ago

First Areas To Benefit From £150m Government Rural Mobile Coverage Plan Revealed

First areas to receive improved mobile coverage will go live later this year

11 years ago

BT Retail To Split Consumer And Business Divisions

BT Retail to split into two separate businesses from September

11 years ago

Nokia 301 Joins O2 “Chargers Out Of The Box” Range

Nokia 301 is the first mass-market handset to ship without a charger on O2

11 years ago

MPs: Policing ‘Black Hole’ Letting Cyber Crooks Generate Huge Profits

Crooks are getting away with making massive sums of money because police aren't investigating lower-level cyber crimes enough, MPs warn

11 years ago

Ballmer Admits To Poor Surface RT Sales

Following a $900m charge due to Surface RT, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has admitted to employees that the tablet…

11 years ago

Government Calls For Release Of BDUK Rollout Information

BT agrees to release BDUK upgrade information, but councils must give their permission

11 years ago

DataKind UK Helps Charities Make Informed Choices Using Analytics

The first DataDive event sees over 100 volunteers consulting four non-profit organisations

11 years ago

Viber Claims iTunes Flaw To Blame For App Store Account Hack

Hackers can stay logged in to iTunes Connect accounts even when they've been blocked, Viber claims

11 years ago

Twitter Abuse Petition Receives More Than 55,000 Signatures

Twitter users call for better tools to report abuse on the social network

11 years ago

Another Apple Supplier Accused Of Violating Worker Rights

China Labour Watch claims it found 86 violations at three Pegatron factories in China

11 years ago

High Court Bans Car Hacking Research

Car company wins out after British lecturer claims to have cracked the algorithm used by luxury cars, including Porsches and…

11 years ago

Quiz of the Week: Internet Censorship

Cameron's porn ban, China's repressive actions, North Korea's home brew Internet - what do you know about global censorship?

11 years ago

Tributes Flood In For Legendary Security Researcher Barnaby Jack

Man who showed how to hack cash machines and pacemakers, and how to make them more secure, dies in San…

11 years ago

Ambitious Ubuntu Edge Funding Goal Is A Statement Of Intent – Canonical

Target of $32m is deliberately ambitious to encourage manufacturers to jump on board the Ubuntu Mobile train, Canonical tells TechWeek

11 years ago

BlackBerry Lays Off 250 More Employees

More BlackBerry job cuts follow poor quarterly results

11 years ago

Japanese Poker Playing IT Chief Accused In Android Malware Bust

Scam thought to have earned crooks millions of dollars

11 years ago

Met Office To Use MongoDB For Space Weather Forecasts

The open source NoSQL database will help predict solar flares

11 years ago

WhatsApp Weakness ‘Could Expose PayPal, Google Accounts’

WhatsApp's mixed use of SSL encryption described as "extremely bad form"

11 years ago