Orange ‘shares data with French intelligence agency’
France has reportedly been giving its data to France’s main intelligence agency, the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, for years.
View ArticleSyrian hackers allege FBI pays Microsoft hundreds of thousands to access...
Hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army alleges it has stolen documents that prove the FBI regularly pays Microsoft hundreds of thousands of dollars for access to its customer data.
View ArticleContent Distribution Networks Fuel Rising Threat of Digitally Signed Malware
According to a recent report from McAfee, the number of digitally signed malware samples tripled in 2013, driven largely by the abuse of automated Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) that wrap...
View ArticleObama Meets Internet Bosses on Surveillance
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama meets Internet bosses on Friday to discuss his latest plans to overhaul US spy agency surveillance practices which have infuriated the industry. Obama was...
View ArticleReport: NSA Targeted Chinese Tech Giant Huawei
German weekly Der Spiegel reports that U.S. intelligence agencies hacked into the email servers of Chinese tech giant Huawei amid concerns the company was a threat to U.S. national security.
View ArticleEuropean Hackers Test Their Skills in Geneva
GENEVA – Hackers from across Europe flocked to Geneva this weekend, not to play havoc with Swiss computers but to test their ethical hacking skills. The sixth annual Insomni’hack ethical hacking...
View ArticleEuropean hackers test their skills in Geneva
Hackers from across Europe flocked to Geneva this weekend, not to play havoc with Swiss computers but to test their ethical hacking skills.
View ArticleVerizon email mistake prompts worries about private info being hacked
A suspicious email about a delinquent cellphone bill led Paul Newton to think his account information might have been hacked Wednesday night.
View ArticleAndroid bugs leave every smartphone and tablet vulnerable to privilege...
Six new bugs uncovered in Google’s mobile platform shows how every Android-powered device – more than a billion devices in all – are vulnerable to malware thanks to privilege escalation issues.
View ArticleOn 10th Anniversary of Sheikh Yassine Assassination, Palestinian Hackers...
Pro-Palestinian hackers engaged in a delicious round of one-upsmanship when they hacked the Israel Defense Magazine’s subscriber e mail list.
View Article‘Holy hackers’ target Tyrone parishioners in scam
MOORTOWN parishioners have been advised to ignore any emails purporting to be from their Parochial House after it was revealed messages asking for money were received by locals.
View ArticleNSA Spies on China Telecoms Giant Huawei: Report
WASHINGTON – The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New York Times and Der Spiegel reported on their websites Saturday....
View Article[Newsmaker] Online authentication reforms in the offing
What does it take for both domestic and foreign consumers to log in and buy items on Korean e-commerce sites? The answer is “patience.”
View ArticleNSA hacked into servers at Huawei headquarters, reports say
The U.S. National Security Agency has hacked into Huawei Technologies servers, spied on communications of company executives and collected information to plant so-called backdoors on equipment from the...
View ArticleSouth African SMEs need to strengthen their Information Security…
IT Governance SA recommends that all SMEs should strengthen their Information Security Management Systems to avoid data breaches and cyber crime.
View ArticleVirtualization 2014: Are we still having this conversation?
It’s hard to believe we’re still having this conversation in 2014, but it’s true. There are still companies that haven’t made the technological leap to virtualized infrastructure. But there’s an easy...
View ArticleChina’s Xi Challenges Obama on Telecoms Spying Report
THE HAGUE – China’s President Xi Jinping questioned his US counterpart Barack Obama about reports that Washington had secretly tapped Chinese telecoms giant Huawei for years, a top security aide said...
View ArticleNew Microsoft Word Zero-Day Used in Targeted Attacks
Vulnerability CVE-2014-1761 in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution, Microsoft Warns Microsoft warned on Monday of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) in Microsoft Word...
View ArticleMicrosoft reveals zero-day attacks against Word
Malicious RTF files could execute code. Microsoft has released a “Fix it” temporary workaround which disables RTF support in Word.
View ArticleStanford Hospital, Contractor to Pay $4.1 Million for 2010 Data Breach
The breach exposed 20,000 emergency room patients’ medical information.
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