security

Microsoft Pulls Plug On Windows 7 Support From Tuesday

Cyber security agency urges users to avoid using Windows 7 systems to access sensitive data or send emails as Microsoft…

5 years ago

CES 2020: Amazon’s Ring Adds Gadgets, Tightens Security

Amazon-owned Ring launches electronic gate-unlocking gadget and announces security feature to keep intruders out of smart home devices

5 years ago

US ‘Pressured’ Netherlands To Block China Chip Equipment Sale

US officials mounted an 'extensive campaign' to pressure the Netherlands to block ASML from selling chip lithography equipment to China,…

5 years ago

Austrian Foreign Ministry Hit By ‘Serious’ Cyber-Attack

Ongoing incident could last several days, experts warn, following European Union measures to crack down on state-sponsored cyber-disruption

5 years ago

Amazon Hit By Potential Class-Action Lawsuit Over Ring Security Issues

Lawsuit accuses Amazon and Ring of failing to provide adequate protection against cyber-attacks amidst rash of security incidents

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Twitter Fixes Serious Security Glitch In Android App

Company urges Android users to update to latest version of app after finding bug that could allow account takeovers and…

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Reporters Use Leaked Location Data To Track President Trump

New York Times follows Donald Trump's movements in real time as part of exposé into lack of regulation around smartphone…

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Hacker Who Tried To Blackmail Apple Receives No Jail Time

Londoner Kerem Albayrak threatened to factory reset 319 million iCloud accounts in 2017 – but authorities say he was only…

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Facebook Investigating Report Of 267m User Records Posted Online

Data including names and phone numbers could be used by criminals to carry out phishing attacks, in latest Facebook privacy…

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Transport For London Locks Oyster, Contactless Accounts As ‘Precaution’

Users must reset online passwords after Oyster accounts maliciously accessed over the summer, but in the meantime cards can still…

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Unpatched Android Flaw Exploited To Steal Banking Logins

Unpatched 'StrandHogg' vulnerability found to be targeting at least 60 financial institutions, but could also be used to carry out…

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OnePlus Hit By Fresh Cyber-Attack

Hackers make off with customers' personal details in second online attack to affect Chinese smartphone maker in two years

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Intel Criticised For Removing Older Support Downloads

Users with older hardware components may be out of luck as Intel culls software drivers and BIOS updates for out-of-service…

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Nvidia Patches High-Risk Flaws In Windows Drivers

Nvidia's GeForce Experience also affected by locally exploitable flaws, which could allow code execution, escalation of privilege or denial of…

5 years ago

Gartner Sees Rise In IT Spending Next Year

IT spending in Europe and worldwide seen coming out of slump in 2020 as currency pressure eases – and firms…

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OpenText Acquires Carbonite For £1.1bn

Cash deal sees OpenText expand its cloud business while adding Carbonite's data protection and end-point offerings to its own security…

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Google Calls In Security Firms To Help Scan Play Store Apps

ESET, Lookout and Zimperium to help scan Android apps before their publication on Google Play Store as malware continues to…

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Researchers Release Decryptor Tool For ‘Paradise’ Ransomware

Paradise 'ransomware-as-a-service' latest to be hacked by security researchers, who have released keys for most of its dozens of variants

5 years ago

Trend Micro Buys Cloud Security Specialist For £54m

Cloud Conformity acquisition aimed at helping customers guard against misconfigured public cloud accounts, beginning with Amazon Web Services

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Smart Speakers Hacked To Listen In, Steal Passwords

Malicious third-party apps for Google Home and Amazon's Alexa can listen in on conversations and trick users into revealing passwords

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Russian Cyber-Spies ‘Hijacked Iranian Attack Infrastructure’

Turla hacking group carried out at least 20 successful cyber-raids around the world using Iranian attack tools, NCSC says

5 years ago

Equity Firm Buys UK’s Sophos For £3.1bn

Acquisition of Oxfordshire-based cyber-security firm, which aided NHS during WannaCry attacks, follows fall in value of sterling in wake of…

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Developers Reduce Firefox Code Injection Exposure

Mozilla has removed features that exposed the browser to code injection attacks via its about: pages and JavaScript's 'dangerous' eval()…

5 years ago

Windows 10 Preview Build Adds Security, Smartphone Features

Users can now log into Safe Mode with a PIN, Your Phone features roll out to newer Samsung devices and…

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Programmer Hacks Ransomware Crooks, Releases Decryption Keys

German developer releases thousands of decryption keys for Muhstik ransomware after being forced to pay out £600 to decrypt his…

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Programming Shortcuts ‘Lead To Security Risks’

New research highlights vulnerability risk of using potentially insecure code snippets posted on social media outlets such as Stack Overflow

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Met Police ‘Provided Seven Images’ For King’s Cross Face Recognition Scheme

Police acknowledge working with private King's Cross developer on face recognition scheme, amidst ongoing concern about the use of the…

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Researchers Crack PDF Encryption

Two variants of 'PDFex' attack could allow PDF documents to be modified so that their contents are automatically exfiltrated to…

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Mac Malware Pretends To Be Share-Trading App

Newly discovered Mac malware includes copy of real share-trading app, but also steals data and carries out other malicious functions…

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