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Microsoft Boosts Cloud-Based Anti-Spam Tools

Microsoft has added better tools for helping enterprises to fight junk mail to its cloud-based Exchange Online Protection

11 years ago

FIDO Standard Aims To Eliminate Passwords

The FIDO industry group has released its final technical specification, in an effort to push the industry toward more advanced…

11 years ago

Internet Explorer Exposed By New Zero-Day Flaw

A previously unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer is being exploited to attack users, but is a foreign government to blame?

11 years ago

Tesco Customers’ Passwords Stolen And Posted Online

Thousands of online customers have their accounts deactivated after user details were leaked and posted

11 years ago

Police Shut Down Dark Web Drug Site Utopia And Arrest Five

Dutch law enforcement announce the arrest of five individuals in investigation into Utopia and Black Market Reloaded

11 years ago

Hacking Team Spyware ‘Hits Ethiopian Journalists’

"Lawful intercept" tech allegedly used in attacks on Ethiopian journalists, as civil rights activists fret about abuse of the software

11 years ago

Tooling Up To Beat Malware

No malware is going to catch Wayne Rash napping. But it takes constant vigilance to keep your system clean, he…

11 years ago

Malicious Flappy Bird Clones Fly Around Dodgy App Stores

Flappy Bird clones do nasty things to people's phones

11 years ago

Bitcoin Battered By DoS Attacks

Attackers take advantage of a weakness in the cryptocurrency protocol known as “transaction malleability” and a number of exchanges suspend…

11 years ago

CloudFlare: Biggest DDoS Ever Hits Europe

DDoS weighing in at nearly 400Gbps targets unnamed CloudFlare customer in Europe, as attackers use NTP to amplify attack

11 years ago

Mac Users Hit By Bitcoin-Stealing Trojan

A bitcoin-stealing Mac OS X Trojan has been reported in the wild, disguised as a payments application

11 years ago

The Mask: One Of The Sneakiest Government Malware Campaigns Ever Uncovered

Super-smart attacks targeting various government and activist bodies in Morocco, France, Spain and the UK

11 years ago

No Patch Tuesday Fix for Internet Explorer?

It looks like there's no patch for Microsoft's Internet Explorer this month. Sean Michael Kerner asks if this mean IE…

11 years ago

Whistleblower: Barclays Customer Data Stolen And Sold For Scammers’ Use

Bank says it is looking into a report that data was stolen before being used and sold by rogue traders

11 years ago

Snowden Used Basic Web Scraping Tools In NSA Breach

Use of basic web crawlers leads to concern over the quality of the intelligence agency's security

11 years ago

Microsoft Offers Resources For Switching Off XP

Microsoft has published a variety of tools for helping small businesses and consumers make the switch away from Windows XP…

11 years ago

Study Finds US Government Running Insecure Systems

A report compiled by a US senator has discovered serious security shortcomings in US government agencies, including weak passwords and…

11 years ago

Microsoft Reassures Governments Over Cloud OS Data Security

Microsoft has said its global hybrid cloud platform will keep data safely within national borders as it looks for government…

11 years ago

Colossus Computer Celebrates 70th Birthday

The world's first electronic computer, first put into operation 70 years ago, was used to crack German coded messages

11 years ago

Target Hackers Snuck In Through Ventilation Vendor

Epic breach in part down to credentials stolen from Fazio Mechanical Services

11 years ago

Vince Cable Warns Of Digital Threats To Critical Infrastructure

Cable says adequate protection needed so people's quotidian existences aren't disrupted

11 years ago

Adobe Releases Urgent Update For Flash Player

Upgrade patch looks to counter “critical vulnerability” in older versions of Flash Player

11 years ago

Facebook Open Sources ‘Efficient’ Encryption Tool For Android Devs

Conceal APIs seek to make encryption done by Android apps efficient and simple

11 years ago

Snowden Leak: GCHQ Targeted Anonymous With DoS Attacks

GCHQ attacked Anonymous with DoS attacks, knocking IRC chat rooms offline, whilst scaring members away by sending warning messages

11 years ago

Retailers Hit By ‘ChewBacca’ Malware

A group of cyber-criminals, possibly from the Ukraine, has used the malware to steal payment card data from dozens of…

11 years ago

Target Hack – The Net Spreads Wider

The Target hackers broke in through a third party. Sean Michael Kerner says this should change your security strategy

11 years ago

NHS Choices Website Typo Sends Users Into Malware Danger

Coding error added one letter to a linked domain, leading to threats affecting NHS site visitors

11 years ago

Internet Giants Reveal Secret Government Data Requests

Tens of thousands of requests were made by the FISA court in the first half of 2013

11 years ago

Google Reinforces Chrome Anti-Hijacking Tools

Google has strengthened the Chrome browser's defences against settings hijacking, which it says is users' top complaint

11 years ago

HP Report Spotlights Mobile Encryption Risks

Most mobile applications don't use encryption properly, posing risks for enterprise data

11 years ago