It's hard to say goodbye ... With some sadness we took te decision to no longer update this website. We started it as a way to inform people about IT Security related topics, and in our first … [Read more...]
Stanford lawyers say that legal initiatives might cripple DNS in the future
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 By
Legal experts are warning that the proposed PROTECT IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, currently working their way through Congress, will damage the world's DNS system, cripple … [Read more...]
Iran takes measures to safeguard websites
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 By
Iran has moved most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting companies to new computer facilities inside the country, to protect them against cyber attacks, a senior official said on … [Read more...]
Windows 8 will offer picture password signon
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 By
The experience of signing in to your PC with touch has traditionally been a cumbersome one. In a world with increasingly strict password requirements—with numbers, symbols, and capitalization—it … [Read more...]
Twitter followers of Lady Gaga tricked by iPad scam
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 By
When Lady Gaga speaks, her millions of die-hard "little monsters" listen. So when a message appeared on the pop icon's official Facebook page this morning offering the chance to receive a free iPad, … [Read more...]
Actively exploited flaws plugged by Adobe
Monday, 19 December 2011 By
Adobe has released updates for its Reader and Acrobat applications that fix two vulnerabilities that attackers were exploiting to seize control of Windows-based machines. Version 9.4.7 of the … [Read more...]
East European Visa breach results in 17000 suspended credit cards
Monday, 19 December 2011 By
Our friends from Sophos Labs are reporting that Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans. Although Visa hasn't disclosed which … [Read more...]
Young employees don’t care about IT security says Cisco
Monday, 19 December 2011 By
Cisco researchers uncovered a startling lack of concern about security and privacy along with a willingness to break IT policy in a survey of college students and young professionals. Younger … [Read more...]
Classified files found on WikiLeaks linked to Bradley Manning
Monday, 19 December 2011 By
Classified files downloaded to the computer of Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning matched those that later showed up on WikiLeaks, an investigator testified on Sunday, the first time the … [Read more...]
CIA lost stealth drone captured true GPS navigation spoofing ?
Friday, 16 December 2011 By
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now … [Read more...]
Apple’s iCloud and iTunes store have “Fatal internal errors”
Friday, 16 December 2011 By
Apple fanbois have been shut out of their iTunes store and iCloud accounts since last night as their login details fail to work as expected. Attempts to access the services are thwarted with either … [Read more...]
Beijing government tightens controls on blogs
Friday, 16 December 2011 By
The Beijing city government said on Friday it would tighten control over popular microblogs that have vexed authorities with their rapid dissemination of news, giving users three months to register … [Read more...]
UK computer science student hits 9th place in US digital forensics challenge
Friday, 16 December 2011 By
A computer science student from Lancaster University has become the UK winner of the digital forensics challenge, a global competition designed and hosted by the US Department of … [Read more...]
Russian cyberchief says the internet must have “reasonable regulation”
Thursday, 15 December 2011 By
The Internet must be subject to "reasonable regulation," the head of Russia's Security Council said in remarks published on Wednesday, a fresh sign of Kremlin concern about the use of social networks … [Read more...]
Globalsign releases security incident report on Comodo hacks
Thursday, 15 December 2011 By
In relationship to the security incident that the self-titled attacker "Comodohacker" caused to security providers, in particular Certificate Authorities, Globalsign didn't find any evidence of … [Read more...]
