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Malware More Likely To Affect Windows 7 And Vista Than Windows XP

Windows XP less infected than newer versions during the last three months, but that doesn't mean it's any more secure

10 years ago

Microsoft Fixes Two Critical Flaws In Non-XP Patch Tuesday

A fairly lightweight Patch Tuesday arrives in May, but there are critical fixes for Internet Explorer

10 years ago

Bitly: Offsite Backup Hack To Blame For Breach

Bitly employee credentials stolen from a source code repository - and then used to hit the site's backup

10 years ago

‘Police’ Ransomware Koler.A Demands $300 From Android Users

Android ransomware scam shames porn users into accepting extortion demands by pretending to have encrypted their phones

10 years ago

UK Firms Hit By More Frequent And Costly DDoS Attacks

New research reveals that 32 percent of firms have suffered DDoS attacks costing £240,000 a day

10 years ago

Orange France Hack Affects 1.3 Million

Telecoms giant warns customers about potential for dangerous phishing attacks

10 years ago

Why Anti-Virus Is Not Dead (Again)

If even anti-virus detractors like FireEye use the technology, it must be very much alive. Tom Brewster takes its temperature

10 years ago

Emails Reveal Google’s Close Working Relationship With NSA

NSA coordinated meetings with Google and other tech titans on mobile security

10 years ago

Dropbox Scrambles To Block Leaks Of Shared Data

Dropbox and Box users are leaking private data through Google Analytics and Adwords, a competitor has revealed

11 years ago

Target CEO Leaves Following Epic Breach

Retail giant announces Gregg Steinhafel is stepping down as CEO to lead the company forward after its epic hack

11 years ago

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Boost Data Request Disclosure Rules

Several major IT companies are reportedly moving to automatically notify users of government data requests

11 years ago

Warning Over Widespread Web Authentication Vulnerabilities

OpenID and OAuth vulnerabilities could allow for abuse of website redirection to get at user data

11 years ago

Eircom Restores Webmail Service After ‘Intrusion’

Irish ISP urges users to change their passwords but says there is no evidence of data breach following shut down

11 years ago

Traffic Systems Vulnerable To Hackers Wanting To Cause Road Chaos

Systems across the UK could be abused by hackers to cause delays or even accidents, claims researcher

11 years ago

France Getting Battered By DDoS Attacks

France is seeing massive amounts of DDoS traffic going through its networks, thanks to sizeable hits on the country's popular…

11 years ago

Businesses Should Get Ethical With Security

Organisations care way too much about money and not enough about ethics when it comes to people's security, says Tom…

11 years ago

Class Action Plaintiffs Back Mt. Gox Rescue Plan

Former Mt. Gox customers have agreed to settle two class-action lawsuits in exchange for a stake in a revived exchange…

11 years ago

Mozilla Offers $10,000 Bounty For Bugs In New SSL Certificate Library

In the wake of the discovery of Heartbleed bug, Mozilla is stepping up its certificate validation efforts

11 years ago

Android Wallpaper Apps Secretly Mine Bitcoins

Google has removed five smartphone wallpaper applications that used handset computing power to produce digital currency

11 years ago

US Judge Orders Microsoft To Hand Over Dublin Data To Cops

Microsoft tries to fight US government attempts to get data held on foreign soil, but fails

11 years ago

Alert Logic Chooses Cardiff For EMEA Security Operations Hub

The Houston-based security services firm is to hire more than 100 staff and establish a security monitoring centre and data…

11 years ago

Fresh Internet Explorer Zero-Day Used In Targeted Attacks

'Operation Clandestine Fox' attacks take advantage of a fresh Internet Explorer vulnerability

11 years ago

Industry Leaders Respond To ‘Heartbleed’ Crisis With Infrastructure Drive

Companies including Amazon, Cisco and Google are contributing to an initiative that will target underfunded open source projects such as…

11 years ago

Cyber Crime Thought To Be Behind Fraud Jump In UK

Violent crime is going down as fraud continues to rise, with digital crime likely to blame

11 years ago

Police Warn Of Scam Email From ‘Euromillions Winner’

City of London Police say scammers pretending to be Neil Trotter, winner of £107.9m on the Euromillions

11 years ago

Cisco Announces Managed Security Service

Cisco's Managed Threat Defence service will remotely monitor enterprise networks and identify threats based on Hadoop 2.0-based predictive analytics

11 years ago

China Looks To Protect XP Systems

The Chinese government is investigating security tools for its Windows XP systems, while it negotiates with Microsoft over upgrade pricing

11 years ago

Android Users Downloaded 220m Apps Containing Heartbleed Bug

Updates have reduced the number of vulnerable apps, but millions still running flawed software on Android

11 years ago

NIST Stops Recommending Controversial Random Number Generator

Dual_EC_DRBG removed from recommended list following reports of NSA-funded backdoors

11 years ago

Heartbleed: Websites Are Patched, But VPNs Still At Risk

The Heartbleed OpenSSL flaw is fixed on websites - but security firms have spotted attacks on SSL VPNs, warns Sean…

11 years ago