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Cyber Attack Cost Rises Again For Breached Organisations

The UK is suffering less than others, whilst IT teams are spending in all the wrong places

11 years ago

WhatsApp Users ‘Should Not Trust Broken Encryption’

More encryption problems uncovered on WhatsApp

11 years ago

Popular Processors ‘Are Riddled With Backdoors’

IOActive CTO Gunter Ollman says research is uncovering a lot of interesting flaws on much-used chips

11 years ago

UK Bank ‘Cyber War Games’ Coming In November

Bank of England to oversee stress tests next month

11 years ago

NCCU: UK FBI-Style National Cyber Police Launched

Tthe PCeU and the SOCA cyber team formally come together as National Crime Agency launches

11 years ago

Internet Explorer Zero-Day To Be Fixed On Patch Tuesday

Microsoft gets its fix ready following attacks on various organisations

11 years ago

GCHQ Refuses To Answer Questions On Belgacom Hack

Intelligence agency unsurprisingly keeping schtum over attack allegations

11 years ago

US Charges 13 Alleged Anonymous Members

Alleged Anonymous DDoSers charged for Operation Payback attacks

11 years ago

Privacy Bodies Take GCHQ Snooping Fight To EU Court

Complaints lodged with European Court of Human Rights as the Snowden leaks fallout spreads

11 years ago

GitHub Struggles With Second Day Of DDoS Attacks

Code repository battered by DDoS attacks for the second day running

11 years ago

Post T-Shirt-Gate, Yahoo Offers Up To $15k Bug Bounty

Researchers will get more than corporate swag for finding flaws

11 years ago

Man Arrested As Underground Site Silk Road Shut Down By FBI

Man accused of being secretive website founder Dread Pirate Roberts arrested

11 years ago

UK Banks Told To Test Cyber Attack Resilience

Banks also asked to test resilience against legacy IT failures

11 years ago

Yahoo Slammed Over $12.50 Bug Bounty

In a move described as a "bad joke", company gives researchers $12.50 voucher for its own corporate gear

11 years ago

Caspar Bowden: I Don’t Trust My Ex-Employer Microsoft After NSA Leaks

Former Microsoft privacy advisor says he isn't convinced by the security offered by the company's tech

11 years ago

Internet Explorer Zero-Day Exploits Hit More Governments, Financial Bodies

Experts were right - IE zero-day attacks are escalating

11 years ago

Want To Avoid NSA-Corrupted Crypto? Get Thee To The Geeks

The NSA may have ruined Internet security, but Silent Circle is leading the way in pushing non-standardised encryption. Tom Brewster…

11 years ago

ZeroAccess: Sinkhole Sucks Brains From Big Bitcoin Mining Botnet

One of the biggest botnets in the world sees half a million bots made inactive as law enforcement takes an…

11 years ago

Schoolboy Arrested Over Biggest DDoS Ever

London police investigating Spamhaus attacks, believed to be the biggest ever, arrested a 16-year-old

11 years ago

UK forms A Cyber Reserve Force

Ministry of Defence confirms reservists can join its offensive work

11 years ago

GCHQ: Government Should Be Very Careful With BYOD

Information assurance arm of GCHQ recommends plenty of caution when adopting BYOD

11 years ago

Google Gmail ‘Wiretapping’ Privacy Case Given Green Light

Judge says non-Gmail users are not providing consent and Google's privacy policies are confusing

11 years ago

Met’s Cyber Team Saved UK £1.01bn

As the PCeU heads for its merger with SOCA, it brags about its startling achievements

11 years ago

Icefog: Windows And Mac Hackers Hit Government And Military

Chinese-based hackers hit various Asian targets in targeted attacks

11 years ago

Gallery: Icelandic Data Centre Shows Off Its Security

Even in the remoteness of Iceland, data centres still have to keep physical security in mind.

11 years ago

Google Kills iMessage For Android Amidst Security Scare

iMessage for Android app taken off the Google Play store, even though experts can't find anything malicious in it

11 years ago

Android Malware Fraud ‘Rampant’

Android targeted by new fraudulent apps in first half of 2013, F-Secure warns

11 years ago

LinkedIn Denies It “Hacked” Third Party Email Accounts

The company will have to defend this position in court

11 years ago

German Hacking Crew Cracks iPhone Touch ID

Chaos Computer Club claims to have created a fake finger that fools Apple's TouchID

11 years ago