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NHS Under Fire Over Third-Party Handling Of Patient Data

NHS data sharing initiatives cause upset again after two third parties take down files that indicate they shared public data…

11 years ago

Network Of 300k Hacked Routers Uncovered

Epic attack allows hackers to send victims to any IP address they choose

11 years ago

Cisco To Pay £190,000 In Prizes To IoT Security Contest Winners

Cisco is looking to bolster interest in Internet of Things security technologies with a contest announced at the RSA conference

11 years ago

Legal Protests Will Keep NSA’s Phone Record Hoard For Longer!

A legal complaint to stop the NSA storing phone records is having the opposite result, says Wayne Rash. The data…

11 years ago

Russians Suspected In ‘Uroburos’ Digital Espionage Attacks

Russian intelligence linked to super-sophisticated rootkit targeting high-profile organisations and nation states

11 years ago

RSA 2014: US Government Warns Smart Device Makers Over Security

Device manufacturers face US government action if they do not improve on basic security efforts, according to the FTC

11 years ago

Apple May Be Ending Snow Leopard Updates

Apple's five-year-old Snow Leopard operating system has been left out of recent security updates, which may mean support for the…

11 years ago

Thousands Of RBS, Natwest, Barclays Customers Hit By Mobile Banking App Outage

Customers left unable to access mobile accounts due to outage caused by major traffic surge

11 years ago

RSA’s Call to End Digital Wars Is Either Cynical Or Naive

RSA has turned digital peacenik, but Tom Brewster thinks its call to end the digital arms race is ajust a…

11 years ago

Openness Of Android Is What Makes It Safe – Google

Android chief Sundar Pichai looks to reassure users on the security of Google's mobile software

11 years ago

RSA 2014: RSA Conference App Leaks Data On Thousands Of Users

Irony alert for RSA as its conference app found to leak data on users and is open to potential man-in-the-middle…

11 years ago

iOS Vulnerability Leaves iPhones Open To ‘Invisible Malicious Profiles’

Apple has not yet patched a flaw that allows for the installation of invisible malicious configuration files, which could be…

11 years ago

RSA 2014: Bitcoin Wallet Stealers Plentiful And Pesky

At least 80 new families of Bitcoin stealers emerge in the last year

11 years ago

RSA 2014: Dark Web Spammer Acquires 360m Credentials

Epic trove of emails and passwords for various email services found on dark web store

11 years ago

Apple Issues Fix For Mac OS X Vulnerability

Update will finally patchSSL security vulnerability also found in iOS devices last week

11 years ago

RSA 2014: Bruce Schneier – Privacy Has Not Been Lost To The NSA

Don't feel futile, the Internet can be saved, according to cryptography luminary

11 years ago

RSA 2014: RSA Chief Coviello Tries To Answer $10m Question Over NSA

Coviello kicks off the PR push after claims of NSA payoff, whilst anti-surveillance activist Bruce Schneier appears to be sympathising…

11 years ago

Huawei Shows Anti-DDoS Range At RSA Conference

Huawei is aiming its AntiDDoS8000 Series at US businesses as it continues to fight its way into the American market

11 years ago

iOS And Mac Security Flaw Opened Hole For Snoops

Apple patches serious SSL weakness in iOS, but security researchers warn Mac OS X users are affected too

11 years ago

Adobe Patches Zero-Day Flash Player Flaw

Adobe has issued an unscheduled update fixing a security flaw in Flash Player that it warns is being actively exploited

11 years ago

Study Finds Companies Lack Effective BYOD Security Measures

Most companies polled in the study said they were not strengthening their BYOD security measures in spite of recent high-profile…

11 years ago

University Of Maryland Breach Leaks Over 300k Records

Law enforcement brought in after serious breach at a US university

11 years ago

Wurm MMORPG Offers €10k Bounty For DDoS Attacker Info

Reward offered as Wurm struggles to come back online

11 years ago

Home Tech Vulnerabilities Could Be Used To Set Houses On Fire

Even the US government is warning about weaknesses in Belkin WeMo Home Automation kit

11 years ago

Care.data: Government’s Medical Database Plans Delayed

Privacy groups pleased government has recognised need for transparency

11 years ago

Snowden Leak: NSA And GCHQ Targeted WikiLeaks And Pirate Bay

WikiLeaks website visitors have their IP addresses scooped up by British snoops, fresh leaks show

11 years ago

Mt Gox Ready To Roll Again As Bitcoin Bug Fixed

Flaw that left exchanges open to denial of service attacks appears to be fixed, for Mt Gox at least

11 years ago

Forbes Users Hit By Syrian Electronic Army Attack

Details of over one million users stolen in latest anti-US hack

11 years ago

Hackers Steal Kickstarter Passwords

Crowdfunding site says only two customer accounts have been toyed with after potentially nightmarish breach

11 years ago

Google Buys Sound Wave Authentication Firm SlickLogin

Google acquires login tech that uses sound waves and smartphones to detect users

11 years ago