security

IoT Security Is A Concern For Silicon Readers

Nine in ten Silicon readers are worried about IoT security. Do you agree?

7 years ago

Cisco Acquires Skyport As Cyber-Security Investments Continue

ANALYSIS: January continues to be a month of cyber-security startup acquisitions, as Cisco, Facebook, Amazon and Sumo Logic announce new…

7 years ago

Intel Buoyed By Data Centre & IoT Despite Spectre & Meltdown

Mostly positive results for chip giant as data centre success helps revenue growth, as profitability dips

7 years ago

Government Urges Businesses To Prep For Tougher Data Protection Law

Lock down that data! Charities and businesses warned to prepare for implement of Data Protection Bill

7 years ago

Raspberry Pi Signs Darktrace To Safeguard IP

Two Cambridge firms sign deal to protect precious intellectual property and guard against cyber threats

7 years ago

Mozilla Fixes 32 Security Flaws, Accelerates Performance In Firefox 58

In its first major update in 2018, Mozilla adds incremental capabilities that help to make the Firefox Quantum browser faster…

7 years ago

UK Consumers Hit By £4.6bn In Cyber Crime Last Year

Worldwide 978 million internet users lost £130bn to cyber crooks, amidst an explosion in connected home gadgets and a poor…

7 years ago

Intel: Stop Installing Meltdown & Spectre Patches Now

Intel says it is working on new Meltdown and Spectre patches that should solve ongoing problems

7 years ago

Researchers Uncover ‘Dark Caracal’ Global Espionage Ring

The group, based in government premises in Beiruit, apparently compromises governments and individuals on a contract basis

7 years ago

Conditions Favorable To Make 2018 A Big Year For Security Buyouts

ANALYSIS: The new year has started off with a flurry of acquisition activity in the cyber-security space that is likely…

7 years ago

NHS Gives Thumbs Up To Cloud For Medical Record Storage

New NHS Digital guidelines give broad approval to the use of cloud services for storing medical records - including facilities…

7 years ago

Study Finds Top Sites Can Be Impersonated Using Non-Latin Alphabet

Homograph attacks using international characters to spoof well-known web domains were found targeting more than 100 top brands

7 years ago

Apple Faces Meltdown & Spectre Class Action Lawsuit

Class action lawsuit alleges that Apple hasn't done enough to secure its products, which are not fit for purpose as…

7 years ago

OnePlus Confirms 40,000 Customers Affected By Hack

A malicous script was injected into oneplus.net's payment page, recording card details as they were entered into the browser

7 years ago

IBM Outlines Prospects For Java In 2018

ANALYSIS: Java is still hugely popular, particularly for client-server web applications, with 9m developers. Its beauty is that it’s an…

7 years ago

US Senate Renews NSA Web Surveillance Program

'Carry on spying', US lawmakers say after the senate renews NSA warrantless internet surveillance program

7 years ago

Digital Transformation At The Met: Box, Windows XP Migration & Amazon Echo

Met Police CIO Angus McCallum talks about the adoption of Box, how the force is nearing its Windows XP migration…

7 years ago

IT Bosses Admit Password Chaos At Their Organisations

Password madness. Companies are aware of user's password problems, but are not doing enough to solve them

7 years ago

iPhones Vulnerable To ‘Text Bomb’ Crash Bug

Latest security bug is a simple message, which typically causes an iPhone to crash or restart

7 years ago

Skygofree Android Spyware Threatens Privacy

Kaspersky finds spyware can read WhatsApp messages and take pictures, and it has been around for three years already

7 years ago

‘Russian’ Fancy Bear State-Backed Hackers Attack US Senate

The Fancy Bear hacking group, best known for infiltrating the DNC, is making efforts to steal information from US political…

7 years ago

Veeam Buys AWS Enterprise Continuity Start-Up For £31m

N2WS provides cloud-native enterprise backup and recovery systems for Amazon Web Services, which leads the cloud platform market

7 years ago

BlackBerry Jarvis Is A Connected Car Security Scanner

The Jarvis cloud platform aims to root out security bugs that find their way into the hundreds of software components…

7 years ago

Fake Meltdown & Spectre Websites Target Users With Fake Patches

Meltdown and Spectre patch issues continue with scammers now getting in on the act

7 years ago

Skype Gets End-To-End Encryption With Signal Protocol

The latest preview version of Skype introduces Private Conversations, using the same secure protocol used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and…

7 years ago

Questions Arise About Effectiveness of Meltdown, Spectre Fixes, Advice

ANALYSIS: Confusing array of CPU and OS patches raise the question of whether side effects caused worse thanthreats posed by…

7 years ago

Apple MacOS Has ‘Another’ Password Flaw

Questions for Apple's quality control after yet another password vulnerability found in Mac OS

7 years ago

How To Fix Windows Registry Issues That Halt Microsoft Security Updates

ANALYSIS: Microsoft is halting all security updates on Windows systems with badly-behaved antivirus products. But you can fix this problem

7 years ago

CES: Enterprises Still Learning Valuable Lessons From Consumer Tech

ANALYSIS: Fun is now functional. VR and AR started as consumer apps and are now being used in health care,…

7 years ago

Nvidia Updates Software But Denies Impact From Meltdown & Spectre

CEO claims that Nvidia GPUs are immune to the flaws currently blighting CPUs from Intel, ARM and AMD

7 years ago