security

Wonga Suffers Mass Data Breach Affecting 245,000 UK Customers

Stolen data from customers in the UK and Poland includes names, addresses and credit card information

8 years ago

Wi-Fi Bug Leaves Android & iPhone Seriously Vulnerable To Hackers

Apple and Google handsets have been patched, but other Android devices may still be vulnerable to the Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset…

8 years ago

Android Bulletin Delivers Fixes For Mainstream Android Devices

Google updates tackles security vulnerabilities with Android devices as well as update for its Nexus handsets

8 years ago

IBM Report Details 2017 Tax Scams As IRS Filing Deadline Nears

As the Tax Day 2017 filing deadline of Tuesday April 18 nears, IBM is warning of an increase in tax-related…

8 years ago

McAfee Labs Report Lays Bare Threat Intelligence Challenges Facing Businesses

Prevalent threat intelligence challenges include dealing with the volume and quality of data being collected

8 years ago

HP Inc: It’s Time To Stop Ignoring Printer Security

Printers are the biggest security threat to businesses, claims HP

8 years ago

Microsoft Boosts Office 365 Security And Data Compliance

Threat Intelligence and Data Governance capabilities come to Office 365

8 years ago

Facebook Search Warrant Appeal Thrown Out By US Court

Facebook challenge to bulk search warrants for customer accounts dismissed by New York court

8 years ago

UK Companies Targeted In Major Cyber Attack Operation By China-Based Hackers

The UK has been the target of a systemic global hacking operation

8 years ago

Intel Spins Out McAfee Into Separate Cyber Security Firm

Intel will still retain a 49 percent share in the new security company

8 years ago

Security Still Biggest Cloud Storage Concern For Business Execs

Cloud security concerns and the early announcements from Teradata Universe 2017

8 years ago

Samsung Tizen Is Riddled With Zero-Day Flaws, According To An Israeli Cyber Security Researcher

Researcher Amihai Neiderman slammed Tizen for containing amateur level coding flaws

8 years ago

Moonlight Maze Attack Still Relevant Two Decades After Initial Debut

Attack code first used in 1996 is still in use by attackers building malware in 2017, according to new research…

8 years ago

IAAF Cyber Attack Puts Confidential Athlete Medical Data At Risk

IAAF president Sebastian Coe apologises for breach affecting athelete medical records

8 years ago

University Of Edinburgh Is Scotland’s First Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence

University of Edinburgh joins government-accredited national cybersecurity research scheme

8 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S8 Facial Recognition Is Tricked By A Selfie

Facial recognition might not be the best way to secure your new Samsung Galaxy S8...

8 years ago

Drone Crime Rises In UK As Switzerland Trials Deliveries

Incidents involving the use of drones in nuisance or criminal cases grew twelve-fold in the UK over the past two…

8 years ago

US ISPs Promise Not To Sell Browsing Histories Despite New Freedoms

US ISPs give privacy advocates a boost despite changes to FCC regulations

8 years ago

Macro Malware, Aging Worms Continue To Pose Threat To Present Day

Macro malware, which is so 1990s, has made a comeback, joining other aging cyber-threats, such as PHP scripts and the…

8 years ago

Is It Fair To Accuse Google Of ‘Cashing In’ On Extremist Content?

OPINION: The Mail on Sunday slams Google, but should all the blame really be levied at tech companies?

8 years ago

Quiz: April Fools’ Day Tech – True Or False?

April Fools' Day: How good are you at spotting fact from fiction?

8 years ago

Targeted Malware Takes Aim At GitHub Developers

The Dimnie malware avoids detection by concealing its communications as it looks to steal data and passwords used by developers…

8 years ago

Google, Twitter, Facebook Pledge To Up Anti-Terror Efforts

Home Secretary Amber Rudd holds meeting with leading tech firms over tackling terrorist content online

8 years ago

The Encryption Conundrum: How Terrorism Is Driving Today’s Privacy Discussion

WhatsApp becomes the latest centre of attention as encryption vs privacy debate once again rears its head

8 years ago

Google Discloses Measures To Defend Android Against Ransomware

Google outlines what it's doing to help protect Android devices from ransomware

8 years ago

IBM Security: Data Leaks Grew By 566 Percent in 2016

Spam Skyrockets and cyber criminals turn to unstructured data as the number of compromised records goes through the roof in…

8 years ago

Mirai Botnet Hits US College With Massive 54 Hour Attack

Mirai returns (or at least a variant of it) warns researchers at Imperva Incapsula who witnessed the attack

8 years ago

Team Sky Doctor Thought Dropbox Was Hard To Use And ‘Insecure’

Sir Bradley Wiggins' medical records were not uploaded to Dropbox because former doctor had usability and security concerns, a parliamentary…

8 years ago

Microsoft Previews Azure VM Backup Pre-Checks

Azure will now evaluate cloud virtual machine backups for configuration problems that may cause them to fail

8 years ago

LastPass Rushes To Patch Yet Another Bug In Its Firefox Browser Extension

UPDATED: Google Project Zero researcher discovers yet another bug in LastPass Firefox extension

8 years ago