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Threat-Sharing Cybersecurity Bill Gets Public Airing

Proposed law to allow American companies to share cybersecurity threats with government, without being sued

10 years ago

Avast: Here’s Why Smartphone Security Really Matters

Around 50 million Android users were hit by some form of security issue last year, firm tells TechWeekEurope

10 years ago

Amazon’s Twitch Hit By Password Hack

The site has reset passwords after a hack compromised an undisclosed number of users

10 years ago

Illegal Marketplace ‘Evolution’ Disappears With £8m In Bitcoins

Evolution, one of the largest 'dark web' sites of its kind, has gone offline in what appears to be a…

10 years ago

Google Warns Of Unauthorised Security Certificates In Latest Breach

False certificates were issued by a Cairo-based company in the latest incident affecting SSL

10 years ago

MoD Gets Secure Cloud For Application Hosting

CGI to host MoD's Information Systems and Services applications from secure spot in Wales

10 years ago

PoSeidon Malware Attacks Credit Card Transactions

PoS terminals in high-street stores are being put at risk, Cisco researchers find

10 years ago

Cisco IP Phones Vulnerable To Eavesdropping Attack

An unpatched firmware flaw means attackers can listen to users' conversations from anywhere in the world

10 years ago

US Air Force Discovers Two-Year-Old GPS Glitch

The problem, which seems to involve the GPS satellites' ground-based indexing software, dates back to 2013

10 years ago

White House Hires Ex-Facebook Director For Tech Modernisation

Former engineering boss at Facebook hired as the first ever director of IT at the White House

10 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Predicts US Government Defeat Over Encryption

The tech industry will win fight against governments over the use of encryption on devices, says Eric Schmidt

10 years ago

Target To Settle Epic Data Breach Lawsuit With $10m Payoff

The stark reality of the financial cost of a data breach is revealed, as Target aims to settle lawsuit for…

10 years ago

North Korea Web Outage Was Revenge For Sony Hack

North Korea's December Internet blackout was in retaliation for the Sony hack, admits US cybersecurity official

10 years ago

Anonymous Lists Thousands Of ‘ISIS Twitter Accounts’

The group has released its largest-yet list of social media accounts allegedly used by ISIS

10 years ago

Small Businesses Need To Face Up To Big Security Problems

Terry Greer-King, director of cyber security at Cisco UK&I, tells TechWeekEurope why security short-sightedness could spell disaster for SMBs

10 years ago

Key Repetition Makes FREAK Attacks Easier

British researchers have found that repetition of encryption keys could make FREAK attacks cheaper and more attractive

10 years ago

Microsoft Warns Of Possible Attacks Using False SSL Certificate

A counterfeit certificate issued for 'live.fi' could be used in attacks against any version of Windows

10 years ago

BlackBerry Announces Tablet With Chip-Based Security

The SecuTablet, a collaboration with IBM and Samsung, is aimed at enterprise and government users

10 years ago

Facebook Still Being Squeezed By Government Data Requests

Facebook reports global rise in government demands for user data, also updates community standards banning buttocks

10 years ago

Silk Road Moderator Nash Pleads Guilty, Faces Life In Prison

Australian Peter Nash admitted to helping operate the Silk Road online drugs marketplace

10 years ago

Panda Antivirus Bricks PCs After Faulty Update

Face-palm time. Panda Antivirus accidentally labels itself malware and damages an undisclosed number of PCs

10 years ago

‘Nearly Half’ Of Public Sectors Bodies Have Suffered A Data Breach

Staff often just too busy to cope with new government guidelines, Iron Mountain report claims

10 years ago

Hacker Releases More South Korean Nuclear Data

Nuclear operator insists leaked secrets, including blueprints of reactor, are not 'classified material'

10 years ago

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Resolves FREAK Flaw

No more FREAKY business. Microsoft rushes out fix for legacy encryption flaw in Patch Tuesday update

10 years ago

Dropbox Repairs Android Security Fault

Cloud storage service repairs flaw that could have allowed hackers to capture data via third party apps

10 years ago

Podec Trojan Can Trick CAPTCHA Into Thinking It Is Human

Russian malware is able to bypass CAPTCHA inputs, Kaspersky report claims

10 years ago

Wikimedia Foundation Sues NSA Over Internet Surveillance

The operator of Wikipedia said it hopes to rein in the NSA's mass Internet surveillance operations

10 years ago

iOS 8.2 Adds Apple Watch Support And Fixes FREAK Flaw

Compatible iPhones get native app to control new wearable as Apple fixes a number of security bugs

10 years ago

‘Rowhammer’ Exploits Target Computer Memory

Two exploits developed by Google's Project Zero allow an attacker to take over a system by targeting a physical weakness…

10 years ago

New CIA Digital Directorate To Focus On Cyber-Spying

The new Directorate of Digital Innovation is to accelerate the CIA's development of cyber-espionage capabilities

10 years ago