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Spooks Are Looking For Skeletons In The Closet

The US government may demand access to your data in the cloud. You can encrypt your data, but that limits…

12 years ago

WindData Plans Wind-Powered Data Centre In Texas

New wind power venture claims to offer long-term cheap power to businesses

12 years ago

British Businesses Lag US In Cyber-Worrying

Lloyds of London finds that UK firms should be more concerned about the cyber-crime threat

12 years ago

US Patriots v EU Liberals In 2012 Cloud Olympics

Cloud services could lose, in an Olympian contest over privacy between US patriots and EU human rights defenders, says Eric…

12 years ago

HP Seeks EU Help In Oracle/Itanium Support Case

European regulators have been asked to investigate Oracle's decision to end Itanium support

12 years ago

Pentagon: Military Action Acceptable Cyber Response

Pentagon sanctions military strikes as a suitable response to cyber-attacks targeting US battle zones

12 years ago

Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions

Syrian government sites hosted in the US, Canada and Germany may break internatiobnal sanctions

12 years ago

US Petition Demands Internet As Unalienable Right

US petitioners hope to vaquish SOPA by protecting Web access as a constitutional right

12 years ago

SOPA: An Act That Would Break The Internet

The US House Of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act would break e-commerce and still fail to prevent piracy, says Wayne…

13 years ago

Router Bug Crashes Networks Across US, Europe

Level 3's Juniper Networks routers crashed, causing disruption in North America and Europe

13 years ago

How Can Schmidt Claim Google Is Not Dominant?

Google's chairman has already said that the search giant is in the monopoly class. Clint Boulton is stunned to hear…

13 years ago

US Accuses China Of Being Biggest Cyber-Threat

A report in the US accuses China and Russia of being the major players in the espionage game against the…

13 years ago

EU-US Excercise Tests SCADA And APT Threats

Cyber Atlantic 2011, the first joint US-EU cyber security exercise, takes on the top new threats

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Office 365 Outage Hits US Customers

Microsoft’s Office 365 was hit by outages in North America but Europe and the Pacific Rim were not affected

13 years ago

China Bites Back And Links US to Cyber-Attacks

A Chinese report turns the tables and links US IP addresses to increased cyber-attacks on its websites

13 years ago

Nokia Betting The Farm On US Windows Phone Market

Nokia will not launch any Symbian phones in the US, doubling down on its Microsoft Windows Phone gamble

13 years ago

Data Smuggling Software Defeats China Firewall

Computer scientists in the US have successfully disguised data to evade Chinese censorship

13 years ago

Chinese Weapon Systems Vulnerable To SCADA Hack

Hackers could potentially gain control of Chinese weapon systems, US Homeland Security has warned

13 years ago

British Student Faces Extradition For Web Piracy

A student at Sheffield Hallam could be extradited to the US for linking to copyrighted content on his website

13 years ago

White House Publishes Cyber Security Plans

Obama administration sets out how to protect critical infrastructure, and calls for a data breach notification law

13 years ago

Iran Sees ‘Stars’ Virus As A Second Cyber-Attack

An Iranian military official accused the US and Israel of launching another virus to compromise Iranian systems

13 years ago

Security Researchers Uncover US-Based DDoS Botnet

The US-based Skunkx botnet carries out DDoS attacks, while also rooting out rival botnet clients on the host

13 years ago

Google To Test Android Near-Field Mobile Payments

Payments using Android Gingerbread smartphones rumoured to be going on trial in US stores

13 years ago

EC And US Agree On Health System Compatibility

European Commission and US have signed an agreement to harmonise interoperability of their health care systems

13 years ago

Microsoft Names US As Botnet Central

A Microsoft report has identified the United States as the main focus for computers infected with rogue botnets

14 years ago

Sophos Names US As Top Spam Relayer

A Sophos report has named the United States as the main culprit, relaying nearly a fifth of the world's spam

14 years ago

Details Of Worst Breach Of US Military Computers Revealed

A US Defense Department official discusses details of a formerly classified cyber-attack that he described as the worst breach of…

14 years ago

Study Dismisses Phone Mast Cancer Scare

A new study has found no cancer risk for children born near mobile phone masts, but many are still concerned…

14 years ago

US Extends Energy Star Rating To Data Centres

Data centres can now earn the familiar aqua-and-white Energy Star label if they pass the agency's qualification requirements

14 years ago

US Calls For Rules Of Engagement For Cyberwarfare

Gen. Keith Alexander, chief of the U.S. Cyber Command, told an audience the country needs clear rules of engagement to…

14 years ago