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Cyber-Security Environment For Critical Infrastructure ‘Growing More Hostile’

Executives involved in running critical infrastructure said they feel government has a 'critical' role in cyber-security

9 years ago

Extramarital Affairs Site Ashley Madison Hacked

The attacker has threatened to release a 'complete' customer database unless the site is shut down

9 years ago

Microsoft Prepares Israeli Security Base With Adallom Acquisition

Microsoft moves to buy Israeli cloud security firm for £205m

9 years ago

Email Spam Levels Fall To 12-Year Low

For the first time since September 2003, less than half of all emails sent are spam, Symantec report reveals

9 years ago

Darkode Hacking Forum Goes Dark

Notorious hacking forum used by Lizard Squad and other cybercriminals taken offline by the FBI

9 years ago

How To Explain Social Engineering To A Five-Year-Old

The definitive definition of social engineering from the experts for the kids (and grown ups, too)

9 years ago

United Airlines Rewards Hackers With Million Airmiles

Two hackers awarded one million free airmiles each as part of innovative bug bounty scheme

9 years ago

Government Voucher Scheme To Help SMEs Defeat Cyber Attacks

Small and medium-sized businesses to get government help to bolster their cyber defences

9 years ago

Apple Fans Beware – Hackers Want To Hold Your iPhone To Ransom

iPhone and iPad users hit by trick that freezes Safari until a ransom is paid

9 years ago

Malwarebytes Rolls Out Anti-Malware Tool For Macs

New product will help combat Mac malware as part of growing Apple security concerns

9 years ago

Barclays Compensates Customers Over Latest Data Breach

Data on thousands of customers stolen in 2008 has been recovered by police from a flat on the south coast…

9 years ago

Firefox Blocks Flash By Default To Protect Against Fresh ‘Critical’ Vulnerabilities

Mozilla disables Flash by default in Firefox after Hacking Team documents reveal the 37th and 38th flaws in plug-in this…

9 years ago

Google Evaluates 1m ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Links

Google said it has received more than 280,000 'right to be forgotten' requests since last year

9 years ago

Hacking Team: Galileo Surveillance Tool Now ‘Obsolete’

The Milan surveillance tools maker said the surveillance source code released last week is now effectively useless

9 years ago

McAfee: NYSE Outage Shows Need For Technical Leadership

Hackers are a positive force helping to locate technical problems before they occur, McAfee said

9 years ago

Hacking Team Blames Government For Breach

The surveillance technology maker said the complex attack required months of planning

9 years ago

New ‘Wild Neutron’ Hacker Group Targets Bitcoin Firms

Wild Neutron is uncovered by security researchers Symantec and Kaspersky

10 years ago

UK Companies Failing To Educate Their Non-Technical Staff In IT Security

Receptionists and sales staff need training and protecting too, Intel Security report notes

10 years ago

OpenSSL Delivers Patch To Fix Critical Vulnerability

New version of OpenSSL arrives to address a single ‘high severity’ vulnerability

10 years ago

Dyre Returns As Malicious Spam Targets UK Bank Customers

Return of Dyre malware. Malicious emails targetting UK banking customers contain the nasty trojan

10 years ago

Dell Opens ‘State-Of-The-Art’ Scottish Security Facility

Skyfall this is not, but Edinburgh's Secure Operations Centre will be European Dell SecureWorks HQ

10 years ago

Incoming OpenSSL Patch Draws Heartbleed Comparisons

OpenSSL patch will fix 'high severity' vulnerability, but no other details are known

10 years ago

Google Removes Malicious App From Play Store

Google purges "evil" Malapp from Play Store that disguised itself as genuine program and sent premium SMS messages

10 years ago

Nearly 5,000 New Types Of Android Malware Created Every Day

Report from G DATA shows huge expansion in Android malware this year

10 years ago

Brits Still Don’t Trust Internet Banking

Almost half of Internet users believe traditional banking is safer going online, Kaspersky Lab survey reveals

10 years ago

DDoS Wars: The Network Strikes Back

It's time your IT department rebelled against the cybercrime empire, says Srinivasan CR, VP of global product management, data centre…

10 years ago

Trend Micro Signs National Crime Agency Partnership Deal

The two organisations are to work more closely together on tackling specific cyber-threats

10 years ago

Mozilla Fixes Flaws With Firefox 39, Previews Firefox 40

Logjam SSL/TLS vulnerability is among the 13 security advisories in latest stable release of the open-source Firefox Web browser

10 years ago

Fujitsu: IT Security ‘Needs To Be For Everyone’

Rob Norris tells TechWeekEurope why education could play a major role in providing the security specialists of the future

10 years ago

Hacking Team Hit By Data Breach

The controversial surveillance tools maker has been hit by attackers, who have published a cache of its internal documents

10 years ago