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LinkedIn Adds Two-Factor Auth And Homepage Document Uploads

Another Web firm introduces extra protection to slow the rise of account hijacks

11 years ago

Europe Sees ‘Extraordinary’ Spike In DDoS Attack Power

Data exclusively handed to TechWeek shows a significant rise in DDoS power in Europe, an area that hadn't traditionally seen…

11 years ago

Google’s Motorola Proposes Tattoos And Pills To Replace Passwords

Regina Dugan, head of research at Motorola, puts forward some radical solutions to the world's password problems,

11 years ago

Kim Dotcom Granted Access To Megaupload Raid Evidence

Dotcom gets another boost in his fight against extradition to the US

11 years ago

Tech Titans Warn Government On Snooper’s Charter Pitfalls

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo all complain about threats posed by the Communications Data Bill

11 years ago

Dark Web Dealers Flock To Perfect Money After Liberty Reserve Demise

On the Internet's dark markets, Perfect Money appears to be the best alternative to the recently-shut down Liberty Reserve, sources…

11 years ago

Microsoft Plugs Botnet Threat Intelligence Into Azure Cloud

Participating organisations will be able to help stop botnets causing carnage, Microsoft says

11 years ago

Old Ruby On Rails Bug Exploited To Feed Botnet

Flaw is being exploited in the wild, even though a patch was ready five months ago

11 years ago

China Planning Cyber War Games As Obama Talks Imminent

Tests confirmed ahead of meeting between US and Chinese leaders next week

11 years ago

Stratfor Hacker Hammond Pleads Guilty

LulzSec and Anonymous-linked hacker facing 10 years in prison after admitting numerous attacks

11 years ago

Anonymous Targets EDL After Woolwich Unrest

The EDL is targeted by hackers again over its reaction to the murder of soldier Lee Rigby

11 years ago

PayPal Defends Denying 17-Year-Old His Bug Bounty

Payment giant says teen was too young and the bug had already been found

11 years ago

US Weapon Designs Stolen By Chinese Hackers – Report

China blamed for stealing some seriously sensitive information

11 years ago

Sky Removes Apps From Google Play After Hacks

Syrian Electronic Army at it again but no Sky mobile applications were hacked

11 years ago

Hackers’ Favourite Currency Liberty Reserve Downed After Arrest

Experts claim impact on the underground economy could be massive

11 years ago

Theresa May Bidding To Revive Snoopers’ Charter After Woolwich Killing

Home secretary wants controversial proposals back on the table and a crackdown on extremist websites

11 years ago

Zeus Malware Back With A Vengeance To Cause Carnage In May

Keep hold of your bank logins, Zeus is getting aggressive again

11 years ago

Google Researcher Slams Microsoft As He Reveals Windows Security Flaw

Tavis Ormandy says Microsoft treats vulnerability researchers with “great hostility”

11 years ago

US ‘Should Consider Hacking Back’ To Recover Billions From China Cyber Spies

IP theft is costing US billions so hacking back might help alleviate the losses, ex-US government officials claim

11 years ago

Lords Call To Revive Internet Monitoring Bill After Woolwich Killing

Lord Reid and others want Snoopers' Charter back on the agenda, but are accused of giving a knee-jerk reaction to…

11 years ago

Government-Backed Report Gets The Cost Of Cyber Crime Wrong

A claim that small businesses are losing £800m a year because of cyber crime appears to be based on dodgy…

11 years ago

Anonymous Hits North Korea Sites Again

As South Korea reportedly takes its nuclear plants offline, Anonymous launches fresh attacks on North Korean websites

11 years ago

News International Frets Over Spear Phishing Bombardment

Following attacks on rival publishers, News International CISO Amar Singh talks about his spear phishing nightmares

11 years ago

WordPress Sites Take Brute Force Battering

WordPress says security firms are hyping tales of attacks

11 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Voices Privacy Fears Over Civilian Drones

Google's chairman Eric Schmidt says drones operated by members of the public pose a privacy and security risk

11 years ago

Hidden App Locates Stolen Laptop In Iran

A man finds his stolen MacBook Pro in Tehran thanks to spy software

11 years ago

Botched Microsoft Windows 7 Security Update Kills Computers

Microsoft tells users to uninstall Patch Tuesday "fix"

11 years ago

Researcher Shows How To Hack A Plane With An Android Phone

More trouble with geeks on a plane? Hopefully not thanks to a researchers' findings

11 years ago

Massively Popular Porn Sites Thrust Malware At Machines

Xhamster and Pornhub found to contain links to lots of nastiness... as well as porn

11 years ago

South Korea Officially Blames North For Cyber Attacks

South Korea officially blames its neighbour for outages at TV stations and banks

11 years ago