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NetUSB Flaw Exposes Millions Of Routers

Newly uncovered legacy vulnerability could put millions of routers at risk

10 years ago

Telstra, Pacnet Hack Like ‘Crashing New Car’

Telstra executives were only told about Pacnet security breach after their purchase of the firm was complete

10 years ago

Financial Firms ‘Take Up To Three Months’ To Detect Cybersecurity Threats

Retailers fare even worse, taking up to six months to identify threats, Arbor Networks survey finds

10 years ago

Security System Cons Hackers By Dishing Out Fake Passwords

The ErsatzPasswords system lets you know when an attempted hack takes place - and tells you what the attacker was…

10 years ago

Look Out – Cybercriminals Are Getting Smarter, Says Trend Micro

Hackers launching a increasing mix of old and new style attacks, Trend Micro survey finds

10 years ago

ICO Fines South Wales Police Over Sex Abuse Evidence Loss

DVDs containing an interview with a victim went missing from a desk, and the loss was unreported for two years

10 years ago

FBI: Hacker ‘Changed Course Of Plane In Flight’

A researcher allegedly told the FBI he briefly took control of a passenger plane in mid-flight

10 years ago

What Can We Learn From Our Cyber Security Mistakes?

Carl Leonard, principal security analyst at Websense, explains how cyber attacks in the past year have affected businesses

10 years ago

Blink And You’ll Miss It – Fujitsu Uses Eye-Scanning To Unlock Your Phone

Hitting the market this summer, Fujitsu says iris scanner will offer extra security, and also authorise mobile payments

10 years ago

Coffee-Lovers Beware – Cybercriminals Could Have Hacked Your Starbucks Account

Starbucks customer accounts hacked through smartphone apps, report claims

10 years ago

BitTorrent Releases Secret Messaging App

'Bleep' goes public, with BitTorrent promising to keep user identity anonymous by storing encryption keys and messages locally

10 years ago

Jamie Oliver Website Serves Up Malware Once Again

Once was not pukka, twice was downright careless, but Jamie Oliver website serves up malware for the third time

10 years ago

Is Homegrown Cybercrime The Next Big UK Security Threat?

ThreatMetrix report finds that nearly three-quarters of cyber-attacks come from inside the UK

10 years ago

Hackers Will Cost Businesses ‘More Than £1.3 Trillion’ By 2019

Juniper Research report warns that wearables and IoT devices could soon come under risk

10 years ago

China and Russia Agree Not To Hack One Another

Russia has been looking to tighten its technology and security ties to China in the wake of deteriorating relations with…

10 years ago

Controversial Mac Security Program Hit By ‘Critical’ Flaw

The bug could allow attackers to take over a user's system by launching a specially crafted URL

10 years ago

Breaking Bad-Themed Ransomware Takes Hold Down Under

Los Pollos Hermanos-branded malware tricking users in handing over hundreds of dollars

10 years ago

The Changing Face Of Hacktivism

Lieberman Software Corporation CEO Philip Lieberman looks at how hacktivism has evolved to become a global threat

10 years ago

Kaspersky – We Blocked Over 2.2 Billion Security Threats In Q1 2015

Kaspersky Labs report detects ‘monumental’ amount of threats in the first three months of 2015

10 years ago

Lenovo Laptops Found To Have More Major Security Flaws

‘Massive security risk’ in Lenovo computers discovered by security firm IOActive

10 years ago

Mozilla Looks To Phase Out Unencrypted Web

In a controversial move, Mozilla has said it will begin restricting new Firefox browser features to encrypted sites

10 years ago

Malware Wipes System To Avoid Analysis

The Rombertik malware goes to unusual lengths to evade observation, including trying to destroy a computer if it thinks it…

10 years ago

Microsoft Revamps Security Tools, Software Updates

New machine learning-based tool targets invaders, while Windows Update for Business reworks enterprise patch rollouts

10 years ago

Facebook Launches Major Anti-Malvertising Campaign

Social network teams up with RiskIQ to tackle pesky malware

10 years ago

Should Tech Bosses Be Responsible For Data Breaches?

C-level tech executives should be held accountable for loss of data, Tripwire survey claims

10 years ago

Airbus Looks To Sue NSA Amidst Spying Allegations

French aerospace giant filing lawsuit after documents emerged in German press implicating the NSA in European industrial spying

10 years ago

Hackers Plunder £3.3m From Ryanair Accounts

Airline’s corporate bank account ransacked by hackers using electronic transfer

10 years ago

Revealed – The Spammiest Nations On Earth

Sophos report reveals US still leads the way in terms of spam volume worldwide

10 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Launches Small Office Security

Cloud-based password management stores critical company login details and enables users to have a different, unique password for every secure…

10 years ago