News

data protection

Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam
A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...
Article | 1/02/2013 Wall Street Journal says it too was hit by Chinese hackers
The Wall Street Journal said Thursday it had been targeted by hackers trying to monitor the newspaper's coverage of China, less than a day after a sim...
Article | 30/01/2013 Kaspersky Lab adds mobile and system management to its business security offering
Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday made its bid to reduce the complexity associated with managing IT security processes in corporate environments, with a new ...
Article | 28/01/2013 Privacy messaging tool Wickr adds Dropbox integration
Wickr, a mobile messaging application that electronically shreds communications, has added the ability to send documents from Dropbox, leave video mes...
Article | 25/01/2013 Twitter ordered to identify racist tweeters in France
A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over any data that could help authorities there identify people who posted racist and anti-Semitic tweets o...
Article | 23/01/2013 Reporters Without Borders website abused in malware campaign
The website for Reporters Without Borders was booby-trapped to deliver malicious software using the latest Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities,...
Article | 19/01/2013 Google sees one password ring to rule them all
Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form o...
Article | 18/01/2013 Malware masquerades as patch for Java
Trend Micro has spotted a piece of malicious software that masquerades as the latest patch for Java, a typically opportunistic move by hackers.
Article | 14/01/2013 Microsoft to release emergency Internet Explorer patch on Monday
Microsoft will release a patch on Monday for older versions of its Internet Explorer browser, deviating from its normal repair schedule due to the ser...
Article | 14/01/2013 Oracle patches latest zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
Oracle released two out-of-band patches on Sunday for vulnerabilities in its Java programming language, both of which pose a high risk to users browsi...
Article | 9/01/2013 Ruby on Rails patches more critical vulnerabilities
Those using the Ruby on Rails web application framework on their websites are being advised to update the software immediately after multiple new vuln...
Article | 4/01/2013 Rogue Google SSL certificate not used for dishonest purposes, Turktrust says
Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthoriz...
Article | 20/12/2012 FCC issues security guidance to smartphone users
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is advising smartphone users on how to protect their mobile devices and data from mobile security threats.
Article | 17/12/2012 Another data-wiping malware program found in Iran
A new piece of malware that deletes entire partitions and user files from infected computers has been found in Iran, according to an alert issued Sund...
Article | 17/12/2012 Egyptian hacker claims to find Yahoo vulnerabilities
A hacker in Egypt has released vague details of three vulnerabilities he claims to have found within Yahoo's website, the second time in two months he...