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MIT Was ‘Neutral’ In Aaron Swartz Case

Internet activist's former parter labels the report a "whitewash"

11 years ago

From Bahrain To Belarus: Attack Of The Fake Activists

EXCLUSIVE: Activists in Bahrain are being targeted by IP trackers via Twitter, whilst fake domains are causing problems for civil…

11 years ago

Yahoo Surveillance Orders Set To Be Declassified

US court will reveal details of Yahoo's fight against a bulk surveillance order from 2007

11 years ago

Ex-Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs Becomes AVG Chief

Kovacs joins the security industry but choice of AV company may baffle some

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Thomson Reuters’ Twitter Account

Another day, another successful Twitter hack by the Syrian Electronic Army

11 years ago

MPs: Policing ‘Black Hole’ Letting Cyber Crooks Generate Huge Profits

Crooks are getting away with making massive sums of money because police aren't investigating lower-level cyber crimes enough, MPs warn

11 years ago

Viber Claims iTunes Flaw To Blame For App Store Account Hack

Hackers can stay logged in to iTunes Connect accounts even when they've been blocked, Viber claims

11 years ago

High Court Bans Car Hacking Research

Car company wins out after British lecturer claims to have cracked the algorithm used by luxury cars, including Porsches and…

11 years ago

Five Charged For Hacks On Nasdaq, JCPenney And Others

7-Eleven and Heartland Payment Systems also hit by credit card data thieves

11 years ago

WhatsApp Weakness ‘Could Expose PayPal, Google Accounts’

WhatsApp's mixed use of SSL encryption described as "extremely bad form"

11 years ago

NSA Mass Surveillance Survives House Vote

Amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act falls at House hurdle

11 years ago

Hertfordshire Police Number Plate Database Declared Illegal

The Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) does not appear to be proportionate, says the ICO

11 years ago

Syrian Electronic Army Pilfers Viber Data

London-based firm says no sensitive data is taken, but SEA claims responsibility for the attack

11 years ago

Claire Perry MP Website Hacked By Porn Pranksters

Porn hater accuses Guido Fawkes of sponsoring hack, confuses a link and a screenshot...

11 years ago

SIM Card Encryption Weaknesses Could Expose Millions

Hundreds of millions of SIMs are using weak encryption to do over the air updates, which is bad news for…

11 years ago

China Implicated In Zero-Day Attacks On Falun Dafa And Military Groups

EXCLUSIVE: As part of the Cyber Repression Series, TechWeek reveals campaign to spy on spiritual activists and military bodies

11 years ago

Hackers Breach Apple Developer Centre

Attack from last week leaves developer site offline and user data has been compromised

11 years ago

Huawei Denies Ex-CIA Chief’s China Spying Claims

Huawei again has to bat off claims it is working with Chinese spies

11 years ago

UK Intelligence Asked For Communications Data 570k Times In 2012

Interception and comms data requests spike, but mistakes have led to wrongful arrests

11 years ago

Exposed: ICO’s Tame Investigation Of Google Street View Data Slurping

EXCLUSIVE: Privacy watchdog fails to follow up on Google claims it contained illegally collected Street View data and didn't use…

11 years ago

German Government: There Are Two PRISMs

There's the PRISM of the NSA and the PRISM partly run by NATO, according to the German government

11 years ago

Oracle Patches 89 Vulnerabilities In Sizeable Update

Oracle squashes a lot of bugs but one researcher says company's security practices "are simply not working"

11 years ago

MPs Declare GCHQ PRISM Access Lawful

GCHQ access to the controversial PRISM programme is legal, Intelligence and Security Committee says

11 years ago

Google Glass Vulnerability ‘Highlights Need To Secure Internet Of Things’

Flaw could have forced users to connect to malicious Wi-Fi, but Google has fixed it

11 years ago

EFF, Gun Groups And Others Sue NSA Over Surveillance

First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and the Calguns Foundation join EFF and others in fight against snoops

11 years ago

Tumblr Fixes iOS App After Security Fail

Yahoo's blogging baby hasn't been doing SSL right

11 years ago

Mac Malware With Apple Developer ID ‘Likely Government Sponsored’

The sneaky Janicab malware is likely targeting activists in Kazakhstan and Russia

11 years ago

Yahoo Wins Court Ruling To Show How It Fought US Surveillance

Yahoo praised for fighting the US government over requests for its customers' personal data

11 years ago

South Korea Claims North Behind Cyber Attacks On Government Websites

Denial of service hits that coincided with the anniversary of the Korean War blamed on the North

11 years ago

How Cyber Extortion Really Goes Down

TechWeek exclusively exposes a real case of attempted cyber extortion, as a betting company is targeted by a DDoSer claiming…

11 years ago