Just three months short after the General Services Administration removed Kaspersky Labs from the list of approved federal vendors, US Homeland Security has outright banned ...
September 13, 2017 at 11:39 pm by Ron Perillo
A proposal by the UK internet watchdog National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to filter internet content at the DNS level has been dubbed the “Great Firewall of Great ...
September 19, 2016 at 4:09 pm by Ashley Allen
A renowned security technologist has revealed that someone – possibly Chinese or Russian – is planning to take down the online infrastructures that effectively run the ...
September 13, 2016 at 10:45 pm by Ashley Allen
Kooky magnate John McAfee – businessman, US Presidential candidate, and alleged double murderer – has been flapping his lips again, this time to wax lyrical about his new ...
September 13, 2016 at 8:40 pm by Ashley Allen
If you’re a long-time Dropbox user, you’ll have noticed that recently the company distributed an email to a large number of its users recently, urging (and in some ...
August 31, 2016 at 8:00 pm by Alexander Neil
If you’re about to sell, trade, or throw away your storage device, it might not be a bad idea to purge everything on the drive. However, it looks like many of us leave ...
June 30, 2016 at 10:37 am by Michael Hatamoto
On the dark web, a hacker has come out to be selling the account details of 167 million users of the professional social networking site LinkedIn. The hacker announced his ...
May 18, 2016 at 10:20 pm by Alexander Neil
It is common advice: “change your passwords often!” The practice is designed to maintain the security of your online accounts, but UK intelligence service GCHQ has, ...
May 6, 2016 at 6:20 pm by Ashley Allen
Last month, we brought you the story of a group of hackers that managed to steal around $80 million from Bangladesh Bank – a figure which could have been closer to $1 ...
April 23, 2016 at 7:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Cybersecurity is a big issue this year, with people becoming more and more aware of the steps that both governments and companies are making to gain access to or stop others ...
April 14, 2016 at 10:40 am by Gareth Andrews
You’d have to be stupid to pick up a random USB drive off the ground and connect it into your PC, right? If the answer is yes (which it is), then there’s a whole lot of ...
April 7, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Hack the Pentagon, the US intelligence agency’s new bug bounty program, is set to begin this month, its organiser HackerOne has revealed. The challenge, which is open to ...
April 1, 2016 at 7:30 pm by Ashley Allen
Many organizations in the US that rely on networked printers got a rude awakening last week when white supremacist troll and hacker Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer sent ...
March 30, 2016 at 10:45 am by Alexander Neil
Crackpot plutocrat and self-professed “cybersecurity legend” John McAfee believes that the US is doing such a terrible job of protecting its cybersecurity interests, and ...
March 23, 2016 at 7:45 pm by Ashley Allen
A new vulnerability has been discovered by security researchers that could be used to allow eavesdroppers to spy on the traffic between users and as many as one-in-three ...
March 1, 2016 at 8:47 pm by Alexander Neil
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