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Huawei Upset At NSA Hacking Reports

Huawei is outraged: it seems that the NSA was spying on it, while the US government accused it of spying…

11 years ago

Microsoft Criticised For Accessing Blogger’s Hotmail

Microsoft has drawn complaints for accessing the Hotmail account of a blogger during its investigation of leaked software

11 years ago

NSA Lawyer: Tech Titans Knew Of Surveillance Data Collection

NSA brief contradicts tech giants' vociferous claims they knew nothing about surveillance

11 years ago

Full Disclosure Vulnerability Warning Service Closes

The Full Disclosure site seeks closure after an apparently exhausting legal tussle with an unnamed researcher

11 years ago

Criminal Malware Used In Attacks On Ukraine Government

Ukraine government sites hit by criminal malware normally used in attacks on financial institutions, as epic DDoS attacks are launched

11 years ago

NSA ‘Can Collect All Phone Calls In One Nation’

NSA data collection even more vast than previously thought

11 years ago

Mt. Gox Lets Users Check Bitcoin Balances

Bitcoin exchange opens up a little after criticism over lack of transparency

11 years ago

Three Men Charged In US And Ukraine In International Cyber-Crime Ring Takedown

The men allegedly attempted to steal funds from more than a dozen banks and financial organisations, including the US Department…

11 years ago

GimmeRAT: Windows Attack Tool Gets Android Functionality

RATs starting to take a bite out of Android, as the bad guys ramp up their attention to the Google…

11 years ago

Study Highlights One-Time Password Failures

Organisations ramping up one-time passwords to combat security breaches need to pay closer attention to how they implement those systems,…

11 years ago

Nato Websites Attacked By ‘Ukranian Patriots’

Various Nato sites hit with DDoS attacks< days before the controversial referendum/p>

11 years ago

Cambridge Student Named UK Cyber Security Challenge Champ

UK's hunt for digital defenders ends for another year, with a future Facebook intern taking the top Cyber Security Challenge…

11 years ago

Details Of 100,000 Morrisons Staff Stolen In Major Data Theft

Home addresses and bank details among information stolen by hackers from Morrisons headquarters

11 years ago

Firefox, Safari And Internet Explorer Are All Broken At Pwn2Own

French exploit merchant Vupen walks away with most of the prize money on the first day of Pwn2Own

11 years ago

NSA Automates Cyber Crime Techniques For Mass Hacking

Snowden leaks show NSA wanted to ramp up its hacking efforts with automation

11 years ago

CIA ‘Searched Intelligence Committee Network’

Senator Dianne Feinstein goes on the offensive, as CIA denies accessing intelligence committee's network

11 years ago

Over 160,000 WordPress Sites Used In DDoS Attacks

WordPress pingback feature exploited for attack amplification to knock a WordPress site offline

11 years ago

Brit Boffs Create Hardware Scrambler To Counter Password Leaks

British company road testing a dongle designed to make password leaks an non-problem, but not all are convinced by it

11 years ago

Twitter Fixes Privacy Bug That Affected 93,000 Users

The flaw, picked up by a security researcher, had been active since November of last year, according to the social…

11 years ago

Yahoo Selects NSA Critic For Chief Security Role

Yahoo beefs up its security team with a new leader - Alex Stamos, one of the NSA's more vocal critics

11 years ago

Target: Why Blame The Victim Of The Crime?

When retailer Target was attacked, the CIO Beth Jacob had to resign. Sean Michael Kerner thinks we shouldn't be blaming…

11 years ago

Ukraine And Russia Approach Cyber Warfare

Expert suggests Ukraine would not be able to withstand a coordinated Russian attack on its infrastructure

11 years ago

Hackers Claim Mt. Gox Still Sitting On Bitcoins

Hackers target CEO Mark Karpeles to show outrage at Bitcoin exchange

11 years ago

Microsoft: Government Data Requests Target Individuals

Police and government data requests focused overwhelmingly on individuals over enterprises in 2013, according to Microsoft

11 years ago

Prosecutors Offer To Drop Most Charges Against Ex-Anonymous Spokesperson Barrett Brown

Brown is still accused of holding credit card data but charges of linking to the data have been dismissed

11 years ago

Mobile Users Coming Under Increasing Threat From China Cybercriminals

Trend Micro report reveals wide variety of tactics being developed and used by cybercriminals in China

11 years ago

Bitcoin Crisis Continues With Theft, Closure And Death

Flexcoin caves after epic theft, whilst exchange Poloniex loses 12 percent of its coins and First Meta CEO is found…

11 years ago

Glaring Flaws Uncovered In Web Encryption Protocols

TLS/SSL encryption standards have a flaw which allows man-in-the-middle attacks, while the GnuTLS implementation has a long-running weakness

11 years ago

Twitter ‘Accidentally Changes Users’ Passwords’

Emails were sent out mistakenly telling Twitter users to change their passwords

11 years ago

US Government Accuses Operator Sprint Of Overcharging For Surveillance

US telco Sprint overcharged the US government £13m for facilitating spying operations such as wiretaps, according to a US Justice…

11 years ago