security

Samsung Warns Of TV Eavesdropping

Users of Smart TV should be careful of what they say in front of it, according to Samsung

9 years ago

Chipotle Restaurant Apologises After Racist Twitter Hack Tweets

The Twitter account of a US restaurant chain was hacked over the weekend, with attackers using it to post offensive…

9 years ago

Microsoft Patch Analysis Shows Growing Vulnerability Fixes

Microsoft patched more Common Vulnerability Exposures in 2014 than any other year, but number of critical fixes falls

9 years ago

Mobile Biometrics ‘To Top £20bn By 2020’

Acuity study predicts that mobile payments and online banking will drive biometrics windfall

9 years ago

Quiz Of The Week – Hackers And Viruses

How much do you know about the biggest threats online?

9 years ago

Death Threats From Hacker Lead To Prison Sentence

A hacker who made a number of death threats in Japan has been jailed in a case that captured the…

9 years ago

Anthem Admits Data Breach After ‘Sophisticated’ Attack

US healthcare insurer admits 80 million customer and staff records compromised in a damaging cyber attack

9 years ago

NSA Reform Proposals Slammed As ‘Pitiful’

New proposals governing NSA data collection don't go far enough, campaigners complain

9 years ago

Google – We Blocked 524 MILLION Bad Ads Last Year

Search giant also banned 214,000 advertisers and removed 250,000 sites in fight against malware

9 years ago

Good For Samsung Knox Aims To Secure Android For Businesses

Good Technology and Samsung continue collaboration with Android integration

9 years ago

MobileIron Wants To Lock Down Work Data On Your Personal Cloud

Firm's shadow IT buster 'Content Security Service' will aim to secure work content even with BYOD workers

9 years ago

Insecure Browsers Causing Spike In Malware Damage

The cost to respond to and remediate one security breach resulting from failed malware detection technology is approximately $62,000 per…

9 years ago

US Military Recruits Gamers To Fly Killer Drones

Former gamers speak of carrying out thousands of killings through the CIA's Predator drone programme

9 years ago

User Data Compromised In Gamer Social Network Hack

User Data Compromised In Raptr Gamer Social Network Hack

9 years ago

Google To Pay Up-Front For Security Research

Google is supplementing its existing bug bounty programmes with a scheme that will pay top researchers to investigate key services

9 years ago

Francis Maude To Step Down At Next Election

Government IT leader will leave post as MP for Horsham at the next election

9 years ago

Couples Beware – Could Your Sex Toys Be Spying On You?

Talk about a ruined Valentines Day - hacked sex toys can be accessed to post images and even video

9 years ago

Governments Have No Idea How To Stop Cyberterrorists – Time To Call In John McClane, Says Eugene Kaspersky

Seen Die Hard 4.0? That’s what’s coming soon if you don’t shape up, Kaspersky warns world leaders

9 years ago

The Critic’s View: Data Privacy Day / Data Protection Day

Our round-up of the expert views concerning keeping your data safe online

9 years ago

Google To Change Privacy Policy, ICO Confirms

Google agrees to alter its UK privacy policy after escaping a fine by Information Commissioner

9 years ago

DDoS Attack Volume On The Rise

Arbor's 10th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report points to the growing attack bandwidth and application layer attacks

9 years ago

China Demands Technology Firms Hand Over Source Code

Protectionism or national security? China demands foreign firms hand over source code for inspection

9 years ago

How To Overcome The ‘Tech Deficit’ And Meet Your Data Centre Security Needs

Colt's John Hayday discusses security needs in today's data centre

9 years ago

Could Your Apps Be Putting Your Smartphone At Risk?

Smartphone users need to be aware of what data their mobile apps have access to, say Silent Circle and Blackphone

9 years ago

Taylor Swift’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts Hacked

"Hackers gonna hack hack hack hack hack", it seems, as Taylor Swift's Twitter account not able to “shake it off”…

9 years ago

Most Employees “Would Sell Company Passwords For £100”

How much do you trust your employees with the passwords to important documents?

9 years ago

Facebook Denies Hackers Caused Outage

Facebook, Instagram and Tinder were all affected by the outage, which left millions across the world unable to access the…

9 years ago

Kaspersky – Don’t Be Too Worried About The Security Of Mobile Payments…Yet

Kaspersky Labs' David Emm tells TechWeekEurope that the security threat to mobile payments is still in its infancy - but…

9 years ago

Apple Killed The Fingerprint Scanner On The Nexus 6

Ex-Motorola boss reveals how Apple stole the technology away to use in the iPhone

9 years ago

Sony Offers Users Compensation For 2011 PlayStation Network Breach

After settling a US class action lawsuit, Sony is offering affected US users game downloads or, in some cases, cash…

9 years ago