Security- The Inquirer

Chinese military denies hacking allegations

Says not us, please go away

Thu Feb 21 2013, 12:33

Google’s data privacy policy is in European sights

French CNIL is not happy with changes

Tue Feb 19 2013, 11:46

Adobe will issue Reader and Acrobat patches this week

Following Fireeye's findings last week of PDF files tainted with malicious software

Mon Feb 18 2013, 09:38

90 percent of INQUIRER readers don’t trust Paypal

Don’t use it, 'have never trusted it'

Wed Feb 13 2013, 13:35

US TV station hacked with hoax zombie broadcast

People watching KRTV were told 'bodies of the dead are rising from their graves'

Tue Feb 12 2013, 13:01

Defence software predicts users' movements via social media

System was not supposed to be revealed

Mon Feb 11 2013, 16:57

Microsoft and Symantec shut down Bamital click fraud botnet

Shutting the barn door

Thu Feb 07 2013, 15:54

EFF wants a rewrite of US e-crime laws

First is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Tue Feb 05 2013, 14:40

Kim Dotcom puts €10,000 bounty on Mega bugs

Vulnerability reward programme will pay exploit busters

Mon Feb 04 2013, 09:42

New York Times attacked by Chinese hackers

Could be military

Thu Jan 31 2013, 09:42

Mozilla’s Firefox starts autoblocking web plugins

Browser is viewed as ‘most trusted’

Wed Jan 30 2013, 14:18

Google challenges hackers to crack Chrome OS in Pwnium 3 competition

Will reward up to $3m for successful hacks

Tue Jan 29 2013, 11:55

Anonymous defaces US government website in memory of Aaron Swartz

Takes over DoJ sentencing website

Mon Jan 28 2013, 12:37

Open letter asks Skype to be more open about snooping

Wants a transparency report

Fri Jan 25 2013, 11:30

Three men indicted for multi-million dollar cybertheft

Trio used a virus to steal from banks

Thu Jan 24 2013, 10:06

Microsoft Surface users are experiencing update issues

Can't patch apps in Windows Update

Tue Jan 22 2013, 11:46

London kids win UK’s code cracking challenge

National Cipher Challenge winners get a cool grand

Mon Jan 21 2013, 15:42

Apple employees and Mac software hacked

Systems were infiltrated

Wed Feb 20 2013, 11:13

Burger King says its Twitter account was hacked

Hijackers romped on fast food firm

Tue Feb 19 2013, 09:59

Adobe looks into a zero day vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat

Found by Fireeye in Adobe PDF Reader 9.5.3, 10.1.5 and 11.0.1

Thu Feb 14 2013, 11:52

Microsoft issues 57 patches for February Patch Tuesday

Addresses flaws in Internet Explorer

Wed Feb 13 2013, 11:45

Canada kills its internet snooping bill

Government says it listened to the people

Tue Feb 12 2013, 11:01

Facebook deletes facial recognition data in the EU

Irish DPC confirms removal

Mon Feb 11 2013, 11:15

Government spooks want more internet and mobile data to fight crime

Can't get enough data from spying on Facebook chats alone

Wed Feb 06 2013, 16:00

Google’s Schmidt lays into China about the internet

Thinks China is becoming too powerful

Mon Feb 04 2013, 11:41

Symantec rejects blame for New York Times cyber attack

Says its security tools must be used properly

Fri Feb 01 2013, 14:19

Kaspersky launches its latest business security software

Nothing groundbreaking here

Wed Jan 30 2013, 19:00

Megaupload lawyers press for case dismissal

Say government is playing judge, jury and executioner

Wed Jan 30 2013, 09:57

Tim Berners-Lee warns about snooping governments

Talks of ‘dynamite’ information

Tue Jan 29 2013, 11:37

Google faces UK legal action over Safari tracking

So far, so bad

Mon Jan 28 2013, 09:43

Anonymous members jailed for Paypal web attacks

Prison for downtime

Fri Jan 25 2013, 09:43

Sony fined £250,000 for spilling millions of gamers’ data

2011 hack remains bad news for firm

Thu Jan 24 2013, 09:40

Google is criticised for weak Android Play store security

Sophos not happy with the surroundings

Tue Jan 22 2013, 11:21

A developer is caught outsourcing his own job to China

Verizon discovery gets dev sacked

Wed Jan 16 2013, 11:28

China’s army linked to cyber spying by security report

Group allegedly stole hundreds of terabytes of data from 141 companies

Tue Feb 19 2013, 15:18

Facebook is hit with a 'sophisticated' attack

Engineers trapped on mobile developer website

Mon Feb 18 2013, 10:01

Europol picks up ransomware criminals

Cops bust complex cybercrime network

Thu Feb 14 2013, 10:28

President Obama announces cybersecurity executive order

State of the Union speech addresses computer protection

Wed Feb 13 2013, 10:45

UK is vulnerable to cyber attacks due to lack of skills

Must improve security awareness and response

Tue Feb 12 2013, 09:41

Mega bug hunters are drawing mostly blanks

So far nothing to worry Kim Dotcom

Mon Feb 11 2013, 10:02

Wall Street Journal is still suffering from Chinese data takeaway attack

Rupert Murdoch is being hacked

Wed Feb 06 2013, 15:20

Fourth 'Anonymous' Paypal activist avoids jail

Too much, too young

Mon Feb 04 2013, 09:49

HMV starts headcount cuts, Twitter account reveals

Rogue tweeter shut down

Thu Jan 31 2013, 15:45

Ticketmaster drops Captcha verification to beat off ticket bots

Makes way for adverts and clarity

Wed Jan 30 2013, 16:45

Whatsapp is slammed by regulators for storing users’ contacts

Storing data on its servers in hashed form is illegal

Tue Jan 29 2013, 13:59

Google and Twitter open transparency reports for inspection

Happy Data Privacy Day

Mon Jan 28 2013, 16:16

Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Column There is no sense in electronic crime sentencing

Fri Jan 25 2013, 13:43

Kim Dotcom calls out his Mega detractors

Security and rights called into question

Thu Jan 24 2013, 15:33

Lookout updates Android security software with Lock Cam

Takes a photo of an unauthorised user and emails it to the victim

Wed Jan 23 2013, 11:00

College student expelled for reporting security vulnerability

Feels the wrath of academia

Mon Jan 21 2013, 16:13

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