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• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  More than 162,000 WordPress sites used in DDoS attack

  Security researchers have uncovered a DDoS attack that used more than 162,000 legitimate and unwitting WordPress websites

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Tim Berners-Lee calls for internet users’ "bill of rights"

  World Wide Web creator marks its 25th anniversary by calling for a “free, open and truly global internet” enshrined in a "bill of rights"

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  UK to help lead world fight against cyber crime

  The UK must exploit its unique position to build an international strategy on tackling cyber crime, says National Cyber Crime Unit head

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  BBC launches redesigned iPlayer video-on-demand service

  The BBC launches the latest version of its video-on-demand service with improved navigation and recommendation features and sign-in function

• March 11, 2014 11 Mar'14

  Internet of things cannot be about products alone, warn experts

  The UK technology industry has welcomed government support for the internet of things, but warns that security and infrastructure cannot be overlooked.

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  BBC starts search for new CTO

  The BBC is about to advertise the vacant chief technology officer (CTO) job to replace John Linwood, sacked after the DMI project failure

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Phishing attacks track mobile adoption, research shows

  Phishing attacks on mobile devices are increasing as adoption of internet-connected mobile devices and services grows

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Dark web key enabler for cyber criminals, say McAfee researchers

  The dark web is a key conduit for the malware industry to refine and distribute its products and services, say security researchers

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  UK more than doubles funds to build internet of things

  UK government more than doubles funding for technology companies making devices that communicate over the internet.

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  ICO fines charity £200,000 for data breach

  The ICO has imposed a monetary penalty of £200,000 on the British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS) for exposing thousands of personal details to a malicious hacker

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  Privacy groups call for review of Facebook Whatsapp deal

  Privacy groups are calling for a halt to Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp until it clarifies how it plans to use the personal data of WhatsApp's members

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  Europol issues public Wi-Fi security warning

  Europol has issued a warning about sending sensitive information over public Wi-Fi hotspots

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Security by design still not a reality, says security veteran

  In all the great technological innovation the world is seeing, security is still an afterthought, says Jarno Limnell, director of cyber security, Stonesoft

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Porn still most potent mobile malware channel, says Blue Coat

  Malvertising is putting mobile users at risk and has overtaken pornography as the highest volume delivery channel of mobile malware, study shows

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Ukraine and Russia locked in a cyber stand-off

  Security experts have warned that Ukraine and Russia are locked in a cyber stand-off amid diplomatic efforts to reduce political tensions

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Target’s CIO resigns after massive data breach

  Target’s chief information officer has resigned two-and-a-half months after a data breach impacting about 40 million credit and data debit cards

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  US holds hearing on data security

  The US House of Representatives subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit is to hold a hearing on data security

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Chinese mobile underground shows need for security, says report

  Chinese cyber criminals are increasingly targeting smartphone users through underground products and services, a report by Trend Micro reveals

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Channel 4 CTO Bob Harris leaves to set up consultancy firm

  Channel 4 chief technology officer Bob Harris is leaving the broadcaster at the end of March to set up his own consultancy business

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Clegg calls for transparency in UK security surveillance

  Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg calls for greater transparency and stronger oversight of the UK intelligence agencies

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Web-based attacks double in 2013, study finds

  Web-based malware attacks doubled in the second half of 2013 in comparison with the first half, according to the latest threat report from F-Secure Labs

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  IT threats top business concerns, report shows

  IT-related threats provide the greatest concern for businesses, a report has revealed

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Identity theft linked to 60% of UK fraud in 2013

  The misuse of the personal data of victims, accounted for more than 60% of all fraud in the UK in 2013, a study reveals

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Financial services sector attracts most cyber crime, says PwC study

  More than a third of financial sector organisations say they have been victims of cyber crime, compared with only 17% in other industries

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Blogger finds basic security flaw in UK Parliament’s website

  The UK Parliament's website contained basic flaws that left it vulnerable to hacking, a computer blogger has revealed

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  Team Cymru exposes SOHO router compromise

  Team Cymru has discovered a widespread compromise of consumer-grade small office/home office (SOHO) routers

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  RSA 2014: Malware rates linked to socio-economic factors

  Regional cyber vulnerabilities are not linked to any single factor, but to a variety of different socio-economic factors, says Microsoft

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  RSA 2014: Microsoft and partners defend botnet disruption

  Microsoft and its partners have defended disrupting criminal botnets at RSA Conference 2014

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  RSA 2014: FBI director promises surveillance with privacy

  FBI director James Comey tells RSA Conference 2014 that surveillance is necessary, but promises to ensure privacy

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  Labour to call for crackdown on cyber crime

  Labour is to call for a crackdown on cyber crime related to child pornography and terrorism

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Analysis: What is RSA’s relationship with the NSA?

  After RSA 2014, are we any closer to understanding RSA's relationship with the NSA?

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Microsoft urges businesses on Windows XP to migrate

  Organisations running Windows XP should migrate to a more recent version of the operating system for security reasons, says Microsoft

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  Microsoft takes aim at passwords

  Microsoft says it is determined to solve the problem of ineffective authentication that relies on usernames and passwords

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  RSA 2014: Principles key to digital world, says Microsoft

  The world needs to set norms around behaviour in cyber space, says Scott Charney, corporate vice president, Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  RSA 2014: Coviello rejects rumours of deal with NSA

  RSA tackles accusations of NSA collusion and calls for international co-operation on cyber security in the opening keynote of RSA Conference 2014

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  £3m UK grant to tackle malicious app collusion

  UK-based researchers are to use a £3m grant to investigate ways of countering malicious apps that collude with each other to infect smartphones

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Microsoft launches technical preview of Emet 5.0

  Microsoft has launched the technical preview of the latest version of its free enhanced mitigation experience toolkit (Emet)

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  RSA announces Managed Security Partner programme

  RSA has announced a programme designed to enable a new generation of managed security services

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Standardisation key to future security, say experts

  The adoption of security standards to enable automated self-healing systems is key to data protection in future

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Employee mobiles expose firms to attack, says Webroot

  Employees mobile devices expose companies to malicious applications and attacks, according to the latest mobile threat report from Webroot

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Adobe releases second critical security update for Flash Player in three weeks

  Adobe has released the second critical security update for its Flash Player plug-in in less than three weeks

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Businesses ignore unknown threats despite cost, study shows

  Many UK organisations are ignoring the next wave of unknown security threats despite the cost, a study shows

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  University of Maryland hackers access 300,000 records

  The University of Maryland has admitted cyber attackers have accessed records of more than 300,000 staff and students

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Facebook acquires WhatsApp in $19bn deal

  Facebook has acquired messaging service WhatsApp in a deal worth $19bn in cash and shares

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  Employee monitoring under the radar, says security expert

  Snowden has stirred national debate on internet surveillance, but employee monitoring barely gets a mention, says Weblife Balance chief David Melnick

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  UK firms see 1,000+ internal data breaches a day, study finds

  Internal threats are not a high priority for UK firms despite more than 1,000 internal data breaches a day

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  NHS England puts patient database on hold

  NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  ISF principal analyst Adrian Davis to join (ISC)2

  ISF principal analyst Adrian Davis is to Join (ISC)2 as head of the Europe, Middle East and Africa regional office

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  Cut Microsoft admin rights to mitigate 92% of threats, study shows

  Removing Microsoft admin rights from employees mitigates 92% of critical vulnerabilities reported in 2013

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Medical database could undermine privacy, says NHS risk assessment

  NHS England’s own risk analysis says the planned care data system could undermine patient confidentiality

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Kickstarter notifies users of data breach after four days

  Online crowdfunding website Kickstarter has admitted that attackers have gained access to user data

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Google acquires audio ID startup SlickLogin

  Google has acquired Israeli startup SlickLogin, which enables online services to authenticate a user with sound waves

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal

  The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Top banking botnets study victims' behaviour, Dell report reveals

  Five of the top eight banking Trojans capture snapshots of victims’ behaviour, profiling their online interactions, Dell research reveals

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Tesco.com deactivates accounts after hackers publish logon details

  Tesco.com has deactivated more than 2,000 customer accounts after hackers posted a list of usernames and passwords online

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  Software industry group welcomes US cyber security framework

  BSA, The Software Alliance has welcomed the launch of the US Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber security

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  EU should use US trade talks to win data privacy, say MEPs

  MEPs have approved an inquiry report that calls for a new EU-US trade deal to be blocked unless the US fully respects EU citizens’ data privacy

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Password-free online authentication a step closer

  The elimination of insecure passwords for online services is another step closer.

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  Annual global cost of identity theft as high as £3bn

  The annual worldwide impact of phishing and various forms of identity theft could be as high as $3bn a survey has revealed

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  NTP-based DDoS attacks a concern, says Cloudflare

  Security firm Cloudflare says it spotted and stopped a massive DDoS attack that exploited a vulnerability in the infrastructure of the internet

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  (ISC)2 expands online security awareness programme to Ireland

  The (ISC)2 Foundation has launched its Safe and Secure Online programme in Ireland, to commemorate Safer Internet Day 2014

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Rights groups call on White House to open privacy review

  A coalition of 25 rights groups is calling for a 90-day US government review of big data and the future of privacy to be opened up to the public

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  PCI DSS compliance still too low, says Verizon

  Compliance with the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) remains low, according to a study of assessments around the world

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  UK among targets of 'Mask' advanced cyber espionage campaign

  The UK has been hit more than 100 times in an advanced global cyber espionage campaign that has gone undetected for more than five years

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Dyson invests £5m in UK robotics

  Engineering firm Dyson invests £5m in a robotics lab to pit a UK team against Google to become world leader in artificial intelligence

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  NSA failed to detect Snowden’s unsophisticated insider attack

  The NSA failed to detect the relatively unsophisticated data mining activities of whistleblower Edward Snowden, it has emerged

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  Barclays bank leaks thousands of customer records

  Regulators investigate Barclays after a whistleblower claims the bank leaked 27,000 customer records

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  UK inquiry into spy agency laws flawed, say campaign groups

  Leading UK civil liberties and privacy groups have raised concerns about the ISC's planned inquiry into laws governing intelligence agencies

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Twitter wants more transparency on government data requests

  Twitter is considering taking legal action to establish the right to publish more details about government requests for user data

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Turkey seeks tighter internet control

  Turkey moves closer to even tighter government control of the internet after pushing new internet regulations through parliament

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  LinkedIn shares 15% down on latest financial report

  Shares in professional networking service LinkedIn dropped 15% in after-hours trading on the latest financial report

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Technological risks could undermine SME business confidence

  The threat of network failures, cyber attacks and data loss is overshadowing growing business confidence among UK SMEs, survey finds

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  GCHQ used DoS attacks against Anonymous, show Snowden documents

  UK spy agency GCHQ used denial of service (DoS) attacks against Anonymous, according to documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  UK critical infrastructure at risk of cyber attack, says IET report

  UK critical national infrastructure is at risk of cyber attack, says a report by consultancy Atkins for the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Twitter shares drop 12% on latest financial report

  Twitter has reported net losses of $511m for the last quarter of 2013 and $645m for the full year, but investors take flight on poor growth figures

• February 05, 2014 05 Feb'14

  The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?

  The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Bevan Gibson named as CTO of ITN

  Former BskyB head of operations and technology, Bevan Gibson, has been named as the new chief technology officer (CTO) of ITN

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  NHS site malicious redirects are a warning to developers

  A coding error that redirected NHS website visitors to malicious content should be a warning to developers, say security experts

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  BBC DMI row continues as Linwood defends “working technology”

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood was scrutinised by a public accounts committee yesterday during a hearing about the failed BBC Digital Media Initiative

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Web app security fixes down to 11 days in 2013

  Suppliers of web apps improved the rate of delivery for security fixes in 2013, but still take 11 days on average

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  BBC insists former CTO John Linwood's claims are wrong, in ongoing DMI row

  The BBC has responded to former CTO John Linwood’s claims about its failed digital media project, insisting there were still considerable IT problems

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Zeus variant by-passing security, say researchers

  A variant of the data-stealing Zeus Trojan best known for targeting online banking uses a new technique to bypass security systems.

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Apple faces $840m e-book damages claim

  Apple faces an $850m damages claim after the company was found guilty in July 2013 of conspiring with five publishers to raise the prices of e-books

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Hackers access Yahoo Mail with stolen passwords

  Yahoo has revealed that hackers have tried to access some Yahoo Mail accounts with stolen passwords

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Amazon shares fall despite strong Q4 results

  Amazon reported record revenues of $25.6bn in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 20% on the previous year, but below analyst expectations

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Google Q4 revenues and profits up 17%

  Google reported fourth quarter revenues of $16.86 and profits of $3.38bn, both up 17% compared with the same period in 2012

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Information security salaries set to rise in 2014

  Salaries for information security professionals are set to rise across the board in 2014 as demand increases

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Alleged SpyEye mastermind pleads guilty to fraud

  The alleged mastermind of the SpyEye banking Trojan has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in a US court

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Hacktivists hit Angry Birds website after spying claims

  Hacktivists have attacked the wesbite of Angry Birds maker Rovio over UK and US spying revelations

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Facebook reports record quarter driven by mobile sales

  A record fourth quarter for Facebook has proved the firm can tap into the rapidly growing mobile market

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Lenovo buys Google’s Motorola Mobility in $3bn deal

  Google has announced the sale of its Motorola Mobility unit to Chinese computer maker Lenovo in a $3bn deal

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Cyber security quest strong in UK, says Isaca

  There is a strong interest in cyber security in the UK, says Rob Stroud, international president-elect for Isaca

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Angry Birds maker wants industry response to mobile app spying

  Angry Birds maker to re-evaluate its relationship with ad networks after revelations that spy agencies can access user data

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Yahoo shares down after disappointing fourth quarter

  Yahoo’s share price dropped 5% on disappointing fourth quarter financial results

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Privacy considered a shared responsibility, survey shows

  Users of online services believe responsibility for privacy is shared by governments, technology suppliers and individuals, a survey has revealed

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Transparency deal fails to meet all surveillance demands

  Tech firms win greater transparency on government data requests, but no reductions in how much is collected

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  FBI cracks down on hacker-for-hire websites

  The FBI has arrested five people in connection with several websites offering hacking services

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Apple shares down on flat profits

  Apple share fell almost 9% in after-hours trading despite reporting record quarterly revenue of $57.6bn for the quarter ending 28 December 2013