Security

Wikileaks: Chinese Government Ordered Google Hack

US embassy documents say a Chinese Politburo member ordered attacks on Google

13 years ago

Pirate Bay Founders Lose Court Appeal

The three founders of the file sharing website Pirate Bay have lost their appeal and face an increased fine

13 years ago

Police Request For Website Closure Powers Causes Concern

A proposal to give the police power to close down websites could put legitimate businesses at risk

13 years ago

TalkTalk Defends URL-Tracking Anti-Malware Service

The Virus Alerts service will log all websites visited, but won't infringe users' privacy, says TalkTalk

13 years ago

BitDefender Warns Of Malware-laden Facebook Postings

A security vendor is warning that Facebook users are still being exposed to malicious posts and threats

13 years ago

Security Expert Warns Of Android Browser Flaw

Google is working on a fix to a zero-day flaw that could see Android users' data being accessed by hackers

13 years ago

Public Calls For Stronger Data Breach Penalties

Consumers would be in favour of stronger regulations for organisations that lose their personal data, according to a new survey

13 years ago

European Parliament Adopts Pro-ACTA Resolution

MEPs have voted in favour of the controversial ACTA agreement, paving the way to its final adoption

13 years ago

Researchers Uncover Palm webOS Security Bugs

Researchers discovered several webOS security flaws, including a bug that could help attackers create botnets

13 years ago

Social Disease: Facebook, Google Track NHS Site Visits

Facebook and Google know about what illnesses you looked up on your visit to the NHS Choices site

13 years ago

Security Vendor Reports Sharp Rise In Malware

Panda Security has found that more than 20 million new malware strains have already been created this year

13 years ago

LANDesk Targets Automation And Mobile Device Security

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo has focused LANDesk on its expansion into providing mobile device management services

13 years ago

Most Employees Would Pilfer Company Secrets

Seventy percent of employees plan to steal secret information when leaving their job, according to security firm Imperva

13 years ago

Will High-Speed Malware Crash The Internet?

How do we avoid the collapse of the Internet under the strain of more malware attacks at higher speeds, asks…

13 years ago

Exploit Code For Stuxnet’s Unpatched Target Goes Public

Exploit code for one of the zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Stuxnet has been posted online

13 years ago

ICO Issues First Data Loss Fines

A county council and an employment agency are first to feel the wrath of the Information Commissioner

13 years ago

NATO, EU And US Plan Action Against Cyber-crime

European countries are to form their own Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to fight Internet threats

13 years ago

Scottish Hacker Gets 18 Months Prison Sentence

The Scottish spammer who pleaded guilty last month to charges of distributing malware has been jailed

13 years ago

Google Rushes Out Patch For Gmail Security Flaw

Google has quickly fixed a vulnerability that could allow someone to send spam to Gmail users after they visited a…

13 years ago

‘Digital Vaccine’ Needed To Beat Botnets

A government-backed vaccination scheme is needed to tackle the huge number of infected PCs, say researchers

13 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Takes Battle To High Court

Paul Chambers' appeal against conviction goes to the High Court, while Britain's senior Judge warns Twitter could disrupt jury trials

13 years ago

Malware Infected Malware Challenges Antivirus Detection

Malware exists that infects other malware on a system making detection more complicated for antivirus software

13 years ago

Invincea Protects By Virtualising PDF Reader Environment

Invincea moves Adobe PDF files into a sacrificial virtual environment to prevent infection from Reader malware

13 years ago

More Than A Million Web Sites Infected By Malware

The number of infected web sites doubled during the last quarter, according to Dasient's latest quarterly malware report

13 years ago

Facebook Messages: The Security Fall-Out

Facebook Messages is the end of email, according to Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Judge thinks it's going to have privacy issues

13 years ago

IT Departments Struggle With Downtime And Security

Network downtime concerns most IT, security and operations professionals but only two-thirds have a planned response

13 years ago

Experts Say China Web Traffic Hijack Was ‘Overhyped’

Data analysis of the China Telecom Internet traffic hijack show claims are incorrect and overhyped, experts say

14 years ago

Most Businesses Failing To Erase Sensitive Data

Most businesses are failing to 'retire' their sensitive data, according to a new survey from Kroll Ontrack

14 years ago

Google To Delete UK WiSpy Data

Google has signed a commitment to improve data handling following the infamous 'WiSpy' incident, says the ICO

14 years ago

Chinese Web Hijack Poses Huge Security Risk

The apparently innocuous rerouting of Internet traffic through a Chinese ISP is a warning that next time it could be…

14 years ago