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A 2 Week Deadline To Clean Zeus And Cryptolocker. Really?

Police say sers have two weeks to rid their machines of Cryptolocker and Zeus Gameover. That means the crooks are…

11 years ago

Global Police Disrupt Cryptolocker, Finger Alleged Mastermind

US police say they have the man behind Cryptolocker and GameOver Zeus. Victims have two weeks to clean their machines

11 years ago

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested

Co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, arrested by Swedish cops after two years on the run

11 years ago

Agriculture Giant Monsanto Hacked

Monsanto says March breach saw some financial data compromised

11 years ago

Iran Spies ‘Using Facebook To Snoop On US Government’

'Newscaster' operation seeks to dupe government personnel out of passwords, says cyber intelligence firm

11 years ago

TrueCrypt Disk Encryption ‘Death’ A Mystery

Website post says the tool may no longer be secure for usage, amidst rumours of a legal threat

11 years ago

LulzSec’s Sabu Avoids Prison Following FBI Cooperation

Hector Monsegur given a year's supervision, avoiding a lengthy jail term

11 years ago

Spotify Breach Hits Android Users

Spotify tells a number of customers to change passwords and Android users will have to upgrade following a breach

11 years ago

Report: China Pressures Domestic Banks To Replace IBM Servers

The Chinese government is investigating the security of IBM servers in the country's ongoing tensions with the US

11 years ago

LulzSec ‘Leader’ Sabu Helped Feds Stop 300 Attacks

Hector Monsegur provided significant help in tracking down members of hacktivist groups and cyber criminals, court documents show

11 years ago

UK Police Close Filesharing Search Engine FileCrop

Visitors to FileCrop will now get a message from the police, telling them the site is under investigation

11 years ago

US Considers Blocking Chinese From Major Security Conferences

Chinese might not be allowed at Def Con or BlackHat, following US charges against PLA members

11 years ago

eBay Faces Probes Over Data Breach

The ICO and three US states are investigating eBay over its handling of a data breach that exposed the details…

11 years ago

eBay Asks 128 Million Customers To Change Their Passwords After Hack

The company says hackers accessed personal details and encrypted passwords, but no financial data was compromised

11 years ago

US Government Says Utility System Hacked

Unnamed utility supplier and control system managing a mechanical device both hacked, according to official US security body

11 years ago

TechWeek Readers Prefer Dedicated Hardware To Cloud

Sensitive data shouldn't be on shared hardware in the cloud, TechWeek readers tell us. Next question - which country has…

11 years ago

TypePad Blames Large DDoS For Blog Outages

Second time in a month TypePad says DDoS attacks causing outages across blog platform

11 years ago

China Urges US To Drop Cyber Espionage Charges

Five charged for cyber espionage in China, leading to outrage and claims the US is the one doing the hacking

11 years ago

Cisco’s Chambers Writes To Obama Over NSA Spying

Cisco chief executive John Chambers has written to the US president expressing his concerns over alleged NSA interceptions of US…

11 years ago

LifeLock Pulls Wallet App And Deletes Data Over Security Concerns

LifeLock takes drastic action as it fears its mobile wallet isn't compliant with payment card industry regulations

11 years ago

Thousands Of Network Devices Open To Password Theft

Brocade and other manufacturers' network devices said to be vulnerable to SNMP attacks that could leak passwords, researchers claim

11 years ago

Poland Launches Vein Pattern Recognition ATMs

The Hitachi-equipped ATMs will allow users to withdraw cash without a bank card

11 years ago

Encrypted Web Traffic Spiked Since Snowden Leaks

Surveillance revelations appear to lead to big jump in SSL web encryption across the world

11 years ago

Cisco Upset By Images Of NSA Tampering With Networking Kit

Cisco wants governments to stop interfering with its kit

11 years ago

Massive DDoS Assault Launched From Anti-DDoS Servers

A new type of denial-of-service attack is ironically drawing upon the resources of services intended to guard against such dangers

11 years ago

AVG Slammed For Not Patching ‘Critical Flaws’

AVG fixes one of four vulnerabilities in remote administration tool, but researchers who uncovered the flaws aren't happy with the…

11 years ago

Iran Hackers ‘Hitting Dissidents And US Defence’

Most victims of Iranian hacker crews based inside the country, as attackers take up digital espionage in earnest, researchers find

11 years ago

Microsoft Word Vulnerability Used Against Taiwanese Government

Prolific hacker group spotted using patched flaw to hit government and educational institutes

11 years ago

Glenn Greenwald: NSA Intercepted And Backdoored Servers

Journalist's book to reveal more details of NSA's efforts to spy on the Internet

11 years ago

ICO Report Identifies Eight Most Common Causes Of Data Breaches

ICO says the same mistakes are being made again and again

11 years ago