security

How HP Has Fared In Six-Plus Years Under CEO Meg Whitman

ANALYSIS: If one goes strictly by the numbers, Whitman has had a successful reign. The stock of both HP Enterprise…

7 years ago

Government To Place Limits On ‘Snooper’s Charter’

Police will now require independent authorisation to access data, but critics say the changes don't limit 'indiscriminate surveillance' of personal…

7 years ago

Government Advises Departments To Drop Kaspersky Antivirus Software

Departments handling sensitive data should avoid Russian security products as they face an 'increased risk' of hacking, while Barclays drops…

7 years ago

MPs’ Cybersecurity Admissions Highlight Need For Culture Change At Westminster

ANALYSIS: MPs admit to sharing passwords and leaving computers unlocked because of convenience, but the people deserve better

7 years ago

AWS CTO Defines Well-Architected Cloud Security Best Practices

At the AWS re:Invent conference, CTO Werner Vogels emphasizes the critical importance of security in all cloud development

7 years ago

Morrisons ‘Ultimately Responsible’ For Rogue Employee Leaking Payroll Data

Supermarket Morrisons could be forced to pay compensation after rogue employee posted salary details online

7 years ago

Tech Quiz: HP, HP Inc & HPE

What do you know about HP - the firm from the Silicon Valley garage that became HP Inc and HPE?

7 years ago

NATO Plots Cyber Warfare Rules

NATO members to draw up rules and on how and when to deploy its cyber warfare capabilities

7 years ago

Classified US Army Data Found Unprotected On AWS Server

Top secret army data found online after virtual image of hard disk was left on an AWS server

7 years ago

SWIFT Warns Banks Of Increasing Digital Robberies

Hackers are using increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques for attacks against banks, SWIFT warns

7 years ago

Apple Fixes Serious MacOS Password Bug

UPDATED: MacOS High Sierra has a serious flaw with admin privileges, as researcher criticised for public disclosure

7 years ago

Uber Admits 2.7m UK Users Had Data Stolen In Hack

Uber tells ICO that 2016 hack saw names, numbers and email addresses stolen

7 years ago

Facebook Bug Allowed User To Delete Any Image

A flaw in a new polling feature could have been manipulated by a malicious user to delete images of their…

7 years ago

McAfee To Buy Skyhigh Networks In Cloud Cybersecurity Push

McAfee's first major acquisition as an independent security firm is Skyhigh Networks

7 years ago

Government Urged To Launch Blockchain-Based ID Assurance Overhaul

Blockchain could be used to give citizens control over how their identity information is shared with public services, argues the…

7 years ago

Imgur Breach Exposes Emails, Passwords Of 1.7 Million Users

The passwords were encrypted but may have been cracked using brute-force techniques, says Imgur's chief operating officer

7 years ago

IT LIFE: James Kretchmar, Akamai EMEA CTO

Akamai CTO talks us through IPv6, the Apollo Lunar Module and why he would study foreign languages if he wasn't…

7 years ago

Tech Quiz: Uber, Its Innovations And Controversies

What do you know about Uber, its history and its services?

7 years ago

‘Concerned’ UK Regulators Look Into Uber’s Hidden Data Breach

ICO and NCSC are looking into the scale of the Uber hack before they take next steps

7 years ago

Google Has Been ‘Tracking’ Android User Locations

Search engine collects location data on Android users, even when location services are switched off

7 years ago

‘Hundreds’ Of Websites Track User Keystrokes

Is it legal? Hundreds of websites are said to be tracking visitor keystrokes raising questions of legality

7 years ago

Security Panel: What On Earth Was Uber Thinking?

Security experts are astounded at revelations that Uber concealed a cyberattack but what can businesses learn from it?

7 years ago

US Government Warns Businesses Over Intel Management Engine Flaw

Business PCs from Dell, Lenovo, HP and others contain flawed software that shipped with Intel processors

7 years ago

Uber ‘Hid’ Hack That Saw 58m Users And Drivers’ Data Stolen

New Uber CEO comes clean about 2016 hack, claiming data was destroyed and new measures implemented. But can users and…

7 years ago

New £5m Institute Opens In Northern Ireland To Investigate Hardware Security

Queens University Belfast to host £5m institute that looks to make hardware more secure in era of IoT

7 years ago

Interpol & Cisco To Combat Cyber Crime At Singapore Nerve Centre

Cisco is to contribute its world-spanning cyber-threat analysis to help battle increasingly sophisticated internet threats

7 years ago

Five Steps To Keep North Korean Hackers Out Of Your Network

ANALYSIS: You can’t prevent all attempts to penetrate your enterprise security, but you can impede the attackers and you can…

7 years ago

AWS ‘Secret Region’ Serves US Government Customers

AWS re:Invent 2017: New government-focused region complements an existing deal that gives US intelligence agencies access to air-gapped cloud infrastructure

7 years ago

CA ‘Modern Software Factory’ Boosted By DevOps, Automation & Security Updates

CA WORLD 2017: CA releases 20 new products and enhancements as it preaches the power of change through software

7 years ago