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UK’s National Security Strategy Needs Your Input, Says MP

The country’s digital infrastructure is under threat because the government doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of security, warns Margaret Beckett MP

11 years ago

Microsoft Cybercrime Shutdown Hit Users Says DDNS Provider

In its efforts to knock out sub-domains it believes were used to control widespread, Microsoft infuriates a US-based DNS provider

11 years ago

Silent Circle And Geeksphone Start Blackphone Shipments

Initial demand outstrips supply but SGP Technologies promises more will be available from 14 July

11 years ago

US Auctions 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins

Silk Road Bitcoins are sold off and the winners will find out what they got later today

11 years ago

PayPal Forced To Issue Workaround For Broken Security Key

Security Key 2FA protection rendered almost completely useless

11 years ago

Luuuk Malware Steals €550k From European Bank In A Week

'Hit and run' malware campaign leads to big losses for Italians, researchers say

11 years ago

NCC Announces .Trust Top-Level Domain

The domain, one of more than one thousand set to be introduced by ICANN, is intended as a mark of…

11 years ago

BoringSSL: Google Creates Its Own OpenSSL After Heartbleed Pain

Google isn't changing the world with BoringSSL, it's just creating its own version of OpenSSL for its own products

11 years ago

Poll: TechWeek Readers Rate Switzerland And Germany For Privacy

Germany and Switzerland impress our readers with their privacy laws - but a lot of people vote for "other"

11 years ago

Hedge Fund Hit For Trade Details, Says BAE Systems

Attackers were able to delay and exploit a US hedge fund's trades for months, according to BAE Systems

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Targets Reuters Via Ad Network

Many more could be in danger as popular ad network hacked, says researcher

11 years ago

Android Malware Posing As Google Play Silently Pilfers Bank Logins

Rogue app pilfers bank logins but the most concerning thing is its ability to conceal its actions, researchers say

11 years ago

Government Has ‘Secret Policy’ To Intercept Facebook, Google And Twitter

Charles Farr statement reveals how the government could legally intercept people's social network data by separating internal and external comms

11 years ago

Nokia ‘Paid Millions’ To Symbian Blackmailers

Nokia paid several million euros to stop blackmailers revealing the source code of the Symbian OS

11 years ago

Iraq ‘Orders Internet Shutdown In Five Provinces’

As an insurgency gathers force, the Iraqi government has reportedly widened its blocks on Internet services

11 years ago

GCHQ To Share ‘Classified’ Cyber Threat Data With Businesses

Secretive agency looking at ways of opening up to boost the UK economy

11 years ago

Domino’s Pizza Gets £24k Ransom Demand For Stolen Data

Pizza maker hit by crooks who want a ransom for details of customers' addresses and their favourite toppings

11 years ago

Apple, Cisco Back Microsoft Data Request Challenge

Major companies are lending their support to a Microsoft court challenge to the US government's request for email data stored…

11 years ago

Cloudfare Offers DDoS Protection For ‘Free Speech’ Websites

CloudFlare offers free anti-DDoS protection for political and artistic websites exercising 'free speech'

11 years ago

Feedly Kills DDoS After Denying Extortion Attempt

News aggregator says it is back online after it refused to pay DDoS attackers who tried to extort them

11 years ago

Twitter Users Urged To Kill Tweetdeck After Bug Alert

TweetDeck vulnerability could lead to mass account hijacking, security expert warns, but there are some protections in place for users

11 years ago

HP Discover: Atalla Offers Secure Encryption For Cloud

Secure encryption, managed in the cloud, promised by HP's Atalla, a division which secures credit card transactions

11 years ago

Evernote Knocked Out By DDoS

Cloud service went down as a result of a DDoS attack launched late yesterday

11 years ago

Study: Cyber-Crime On Par With Cost Of Narcotics, Counterfeiting

A McAfee-sponsored study has found that cyber-crime cost the global economy up to $575bn last year, with the capabilities of…

11 years ago

Bank of England Sets Up Cyber Attack Test Scheme

Bank, UK government and CREST come together to create better stress tests and improved threat intelligence sharing

11 years ago

Turing Test ‘Beaten’ By Program Pretending To Be Teenage Boy

Test passed after 65 years, according to London event organisers, but success might be bad news for internet security

11 years ago

Microsoft Wants ‘Unfinished Business’ On Surveillance Reform Sorted

Microsoft's Brad Smith outlines five changes the company wants to see from the US government to rein in surveillance

11 years ago

Google Open Sources End-To-End Email Encryption

Open source effort should help email providers encrypt messages between one another

11 years ago

Molerats Hackers Target BBC, European Governments

A group known as Molerats has stepped up its activities against government and financial organisations in the US and Europe

11 years ago

NSA Gathers Email Images For Facial Recognition

The NSA has reportedly stockpiled a huge database of 'facial recognition quality' images from intercepted Internet communications to help build…

11 years ago