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Internet Needs Its Own ‘Bill Of Rights’ Says Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Founder of the World Wide Web speaks on the 25th anniversary of his creation
Over 160,000 WordPress Sites Used In DDoS Attacks
WordPress pingback feature exploited for attack amplification to knock a WordPress site offline
NAO: Ofcom 4G Spectrum Auction Kept UK Mobile Market Competitive
But its too early to say whether spectrum sale achieved economic efficiency
Eugene Kaspersky: Russia Ukraine Cyber Attacks Probably Not State Sponsored – CeBIT
Eugene Kaspersky criticises espionage and cyber warfare, saying that countries should be working together to fight cybercrime, but reckons it's hacktivists involved this time
Edward Snowden Welcomes Debate On Surveillance, Warns The Fight Is Not Over
We need to encrypt everything, the whistleblower tells South by Southwest festival, over a live link from Moscow
Houses Of Parliament Network Hit By Series Of IT Outages
A move to Microsoft's Office 365 cloud suite is disrupted when an expansion of Parliamentary IT networks was botched by a third party
Twitter Fixes Privacy Bug That Affected 93,000 Users
The flaw, picked up by a security researcher, had been active since November of last year, according to the social media company
Yahoo Selects NSA Critic For Chief Security Role
Yahoo beefs up its security team with a new leader - Alex Stamos, one of the NSA's more vocal critics
Sony Joins Forces With Panasonic On Archival Optical Discs
Sony and Panasonic are to work together on next-generation optical discs, including systems with a recording capacity of 300GB per disc
Volkswagen Wants Collaboration With IT Industry And Connected Car Privacy – CeBIT 2014
Volkswagen CEO says IT and car industries must work together on connected cars and that there should be privacy protection for users
Snowden Leaks Pit Technology Against Democracy, Says EU: CeBIT 2014
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it is crucial that European data protection legislation is pushed through in 2014
Ukraine And Russia Approach Cyber Warfare
Expert suggests Ukraine would not be able to withstand a coordinated Russian attack on its infrastructure
Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Sitting On Bitcoins
Hackers target CEO Mark Karpeles to show outrage at Bitcoin exchange
Cameron Says UK And Germany To Work On 5G, Internet Of Things – CeBIT 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel to open CeBIT, calling it an honour to be this year's partner country
Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto Denies Being Bitcoin Creator
The quiet Japanese-American man says he never admitted creating the virtual currency
ICO Fines British Abortion Charity £200k For Data Breach
British Pregnancy Advice Service was hacked twice in March 2012 by Anonymous hacker James Jeffrey
Slow Rural Broadband Affecting Education, Says Survey
Rural broadband gives urban children an advantage in education says new report
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Try our tricky quiz about tech in the movies, and you could win a 32 inch Luxor HD TV
Newsweek Claims To Have Found The Creator Of Bitcoin
The publication says the 64-year old Satoshi Nakamoto from California created the virtual currency to ease international transactions
MWC 2014: Mozilla Says Firefox OS Will Fill The Entry-Level Vacuum
Mozilla vice president of mobile Andreas Gal tells TechWeekEurope about the budget-friendly future of Firefox OS and the likelihood of a UK launch
Scottish Railway Wi-Fi To Boost Commonwealth Games And Ryder Cup
Transport Scotland invests £863,000 to bring Wi-Fi to 26 more stations on the Scottish railway network
Big Data Firms Predict Mainstream Adoption In 2014
Get on board the big data train now, or surrender the advantage to competitors, warns an industry panel
FreedomPop ‘Snowden Phone’ To Tackle Privacy Concerns
FreedomPop launches a fully encrypted smartphone dubbed the Privacy Phone, to counter NSA snooping
Prosecutors Offer To Drop Most Charges Against Ex-Anonymous Spokesperson Barrett Brown
Brown is still accused of holding credit card data but charges of linking to the data have been dismissed
Facebook Cracks Down On Gun Toters
Facebook to warn any gun dealers using illicit sales tactics
MWC 2014: Finland Is Rooting For Jolla ‘Big Time’
Jolla co-founder Stefano Mosconi discusses platform's future at MWC
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Admits He Dropped The Ball With Mobile
Steve Ballmer admits to mobile mistakes but says Nokia, Surface and Windows Phone give Microsoft hope for the future
Bitcoin Crisis Continues With Theft, Closure And Death
Flexcoin caves after epic theft, whilst exchange Poloniex loses 12 percent of its coins and First Meta CEO is found dead
Glaring Flaws Uncovered In Web Encryption Protocols
TLS/SSL encryption standards have a flaw which allows man-in-the-middle attacks, while the GnuTLS implementation has a long-running weakness