Does your ISP promise security and protection? As a network or connection to the Internet will, on average, be attacked from at least 240 different locations within each 24-hour period, you need to know. Common threats like DoS attacks, brute-force attacks and port scanning can...
One of the biggest web attacks ever seen has been aimed at a security blogger after he exposed hackers who carry out such attacks for cash. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was aimed at the website of industry expert Brian Krebs. At its peak, the attack...
A researcher has earned a significant bug bounty after finding a severe vulnerability in Facebook’s Rights Manager copyright management tool. Rights Manager is designed to allow publishers to protect their content by helping them identify videos posted on Facebook without permission. Publishers who complete an approval process...
Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP on April 8, 2014. Yes, the popular platform has been officially dead for over two years now, but that hasn’t stopped companies and consumers from trucking along with the decrepit operating system as usual. You’d be surprised by...
Google Splits July Android Security Update Into Two Parts Google on Wednesday published an advisory for its latest security updates for the Android operating system (OS), revealing that a total of 108 vulnerabilities were resolved in the popular mobile platform. The Internet giant decided to split this month’s...
The first task of Britain's new cybersecurity centre will be to work with the Bank of England, the government has announced. The work will involve setting standards for the financial sector in terms of resilience to the type of cyber threats which could undermine the UK...
A court order demanding that Apple Inc help the U.S. government unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters is shaping up as a crucial test case of how far the government can go in forcing technology companies to help security and...
A security researcher discovered that some SOHO routers from ASUS can be accessed from the Internet even if the WAN access feature is disabled. The vendor has prepared a firmware update to address the issue. David Longenecker noticed last month that ASUS routers running ASUSWRT firmware...
British police said Friday they had arrested a teenager on hacking charges, as media reports said the youth was suspected of cracking the personal accounts of top US intelligence officials. The news followed a series of bold hacking attacks for which credit was claimed by someone...
Due to the increasing demand of technology across the UK, IT jobs have survived the economic crisis better than any other profession. An analysis of ONS and professional industry data carried out by Randstad Technologies ranked each occupation by the change in aggregate wage bill for...
