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Yahoo Wins Praise For Handling Email Hack

An attack on Yahoo Mail hit the headlines, but Sean Michael Kerner praises the way it was handled

11 years ago

Cryptography Legend Quisquater: No Proof I Was Targeted By NSA Or GCHQ

Jean-Jacques Quisquater tells TechWeek media reports his machine was hacked by GCHQ or NSA snoops were "premature"

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hits eBay And PayPal

Hacking crew appears to carry out hit on DNS infrastructure serving eBay-owned sites

11 years ago

Accellion Kiteworks Improves Security For Mobile Workers

Kiteworks offers the same user experience across all devices, and uses a three-tier architecture for improved security

11 years ago

Pwn2Own Gets ‘Unicorn’ Hacking Category

The Exploit Unicorn category will require competitors to bypass multiple levels of security on multiple technologies

11 years ago

Yahoo Mail Passwords Breached In ‘Co-ordinated Attack’

Yahoo admits its Yahoo Mail service was breached by a co-ordinated attack using passwords gathered from elsewhere

11 years ago

GoDaddy And PayPal Blamed In Twitter Handle Extortion

GoDaddy admits it was duped during extortion attempt to get @N Twitter handle, but PayPal denies it gave away any…

11 years ago

Cross-Platform Java Malware Used In DDoS Attacks

Kaspersky finds malware targeting unnamed bulk email service

11 years ago

SpyEye Banking Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty

Russian national pleads guilty to creating and spreading the SpyEye malware with partner in crime

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ Spy On Targets Using Leaky Mobile Apps

Angry Birds likely one of many mobile apps being exploited by the NSA and GCHQ in their mass spying efforts

11 years ago

Five Bulgarians Arrested After Stealing UK Bank Data

More arrests said to be on the way as five caught red handed in Poland

11 years ago

Technical Glitch Cripples US Federal Courts

The FBI says Friday’s downtime was caused by a technical issue, while the European Cyber Army takes credit for DDoS

11 years ago

Hackers Infiltrate Israeli Ministry Of Defence

Researchers say Israel's Civil Administration computer was infected with Xtreme RAT malware

11 years ago

Don’t Blame Users For Poor Passwords

'123456' may be a crap password, but Sean Michael Kerner says the blame lies with the security systems that allow…

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Attacks CNN

The news network’s blogs, Twitter and Facebook accounts were all hacked by the SEA

11 years ago

Millions Of Email Passwords Stolen In Germany

Germany's federal security bureau (BSI) warns 16 million Germans may have had passwords to online services stolen

11 years ago

Davos: Two-Year Investigation Into Future Of The Internet Announced

Commission chair Carl Bildt says open and flexible model of the Internet increasingly under attack

11 years ago

Verizon’s Transparency Report Shows Another Rise In US Data Requests

Verizon reveals the masses of data requests it receives from the US government and law enforcement

11 years ago

Swedish Researchers Uncover Dirty Tor Exit Relays

Researchers find 25 "spoiled onions" used to look through or censor users' Tor traffic

11 years ago

Russian Programmer Armed ‘Potato’ Malware Used On Target

Rinat Shabayev says he modified Kaptoxa malware to earn some money

11 years ago

Microsoft Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army Yet Again

Profilic Syrian hacksters strike again in attack on the Microsoft Office blog

11 years ago

Lawyer: EU Privacy Laws Will Lead To Fining Frenzy In UK

As Viviane Reding says greater fining powers are needed, top data protection lawyer warns about incoming laws

11 years ago

South Korea Bank Data Breach Hits 15m

Epic data breach affecting a third of all South Koreans - believed to have been an inside job

11 years ago

Is Your Fridge Spreading Listeria On The Internet Of Things?

Fridges are already unhealthy places, but thanks to the Internet of Things, they are a source of online infections, says…

11 years ago

BCS Teams With Get Safe Online For Cyber-Security Education

BCS expert volunteers are to help educate communities about simple cyber-safety tips

11 years ago

Anti-RSA Brigade Set Up Rival TrustyCon Conference

TrustyCon will take place just down the road from RSA Conference

11 years ago

Fortinet Finds Small Business Retailer Security Shortcomings

Small-business retailers are falling short on regulatory compliance, as well as security best practices such as password safety, Fortinet has…

11 years ago

Obama: NSA Phone Surveillance Will Be Controlled… Some Day

President Obama defended the creation of a phone call database but promised access to it will be controlled

11 years ago

IT Life: From Mainframes To Startups

Calum McLeod started on mainframes, and came to startups... via a bit of tape-to-tape copying

11 years ago

How The Crooks Hit Target

What can we learn from the Target hack? Sean Michael Kerner says we can't blame any single technology

11 years ago