France says Facebook must face French law in nudity censorship case
Paris court says Facebook cannot mandate that its French users sue in California.
View ArticlePBX phone system hacking nets crooks $50 million over four years
A bloke has admitted laundering millions of dollars for hackers who ripped off US companies by hacking into their telephone systems. Miscreants in Bangkok and Pakistan wormed their way into American...
View ArticleBrit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies’ overseers
Blighty's spying nerve center GCHQ has a license to hack computers and devices at will, a UK intelligence oversight court has ruled. The judgment was handed down on Friday after Privacy International...
View ArticleThis is what it looks like when your website is hit by nasty ransomware
Malware appears to have hijacked the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)'s website – and held it to ransom. The front page of the site has been replaced with instructions on...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Security, availability, and compliance — by design
Our enterprise IT environments are complex and made up of many moving parts, including outsourced employees and legacy processes that slow us down. Complexity is dangerous for several reasons.First,...
View ArticleMalvertising Discovered on Skype App
Malicious ads that rely on browser vulnerabilities can be activated from within Skype, researchers find. Security researchers at F-Secure this week discovered malvertising within Skype. It displayed...
View ArticleKids, forget console gaming—play the FBI’s browser-based game instead
FBIAfter months of delay, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has unveiled an online educational site for children.The bureau's "Don't Be A Puppet: Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism" program...
View ArticleBig Data Analysis Makes Breaches a Greater Threat to Cyber-Security
NEWS ANALYSIS: While the theft of employee information is a problem for the staff at government agencies, the fact is that it's also a threat to national security once it's part of a big data research...
View ArticleWhy John McCain Is Wrong About Silicon Valley's Role in War on Terror
NEWS ANALYSIS: U.S. Senator John McCain wants to enlist Silicon Valley in the war on terrorism, but at the cost of eroding citizens' privacy and compromising U.S. technical superiority. U.S. Senator...
View ArticleBomb hoax server hoster reportedly cuffed in France
Log-less network service targeted in wake of global bomb threats. French police have arrested the operator of a log-free Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) service allegedly used by a...
View ArticleRoses are red, violets are blue, Valentine’s Day means DDoS for you
Net scum target florists on day of commercialised romance Net scum have bashed florists with distributed denial of service attacks over Valentine's Day in a bid to extract ransoms, security analysts...
View ArticleMetel malware pops bank, triggers 15 percent swing in Russian Ruble
ATM hacking tool used to place $500 million in orders. Hackers caused the Russian Ruble to swing 15 per cent in minutes by hacking a bank with a newly-discovered and highly capable malware. The "Metel"...
View ArticleBlackEnergy trojan also hit Ukrainian mining firm and railway operator
There be nasties out east, y'know Security researchers have linked attacks against Ukrainian power utilities in Dec 2015, which used the BlackEnergy trojan, to similar attacks against a mining company...
View Article2016 data breach blotter: The damage so far
Another day, another data breach There were 736 million records exposed in 2015 due to a record setting 3,930 data breaches. 2016 has only just started, and as the blotter shows, there are a number of...
View ArticleFacebook has paid $4.3m to bug-hunters since 2011
Trinidad and Tobago quite the bug-reporting hotspots, it transpires Facebook security engineer Reginaldo Silva says Menlo Park has paid out $4.3m (£3.8m, A$6m) for more than 2,400 vulnerability reports...
View ArticleThis Android Trojan steals banking creds and wipes your phone
Dial P for pwnage A new Trojan banker for Android is capable of wiping compromised smartphones as well stealing online banking credentials, security researchers are warn. The Mazar BOT Android malware...
View ArticleBridgeHead Software earns prestigious Frost & Sullivan industry award
European Customer Value Leadership Award recognises BridgeHead Software’s significant growth within the European healthcare content management market ASHTEAD, UK – 15 February 2016 – BridgeHead...
View ArticleLaser strike forces Virgin Atlantic flight to turn back to London
Adrian PingstoneA Virgin Atlantic aircraft was forced to abandon its flight from London to New York after it was "hit by a laser strike." Not long into the flight, a pilot on the aircraft—which had set...
View ArticleIT Pros Fall Short When Protecting Their Networks, Tripwire Finds
IT Pros Fall Short When Protecting Their Networks, Tripwire Finds A new survey by Tripwire finds that while IT professionals are proactive in their attempts to protect networks, they aren't as...
View ArticleIP freely? Your VoIP phone can become a covert spy tool…
Sod it, let's just go back to carrier pigeons VoIP phones running default or weak passwords can be used for secret surveillance, independent security consultant Paul Moore warns. Moore discovered that...
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