Security

Kim Dotcom is a busy man. He's been preparing for his impending extradition trial, playing gamers for charity, announcing a new name for his music service and starting his own political party. Now, on top of all that, he's also got plans for an encrypted email service. The announcement was …

The online, tor-accessible drugs marketplace, Silk Road, looks to have been taken down by US federal authorities, with a notice posted up on the main page stating as such. Further reports also suggest that the notoriously anonymous admin of the site, Dread Pirates Roberts (DPR) has been identified and arrested …

More than two thirds of IT professionals agree that hiring an ex hacker to handle cyber security for a business is the way forward. Research by recruitment firm CWjobs makes for interesting reading. 40 percent of those surveyed said that there was a lack of skilled candidates available to fill …

John McAfee wants to protect us from the NSA, with a d-central device that communicates directly with your devices to create a private network – this network would be inaccessible to the government. The technology has been planned for a few years, but with the recent NSA leaks, work on …

Finally, the future is here. The UK is set to recruit a new generation of cyber soldiers, digital warriors and hacking heroes, in an effort to counter current and future security problems in the digital sphere of combat. No longer will the British isles lag behind countries like the US …

Have you recently switched over from IOS and found yourself lost without IMessenger? Well there is an app now in the Google Play store that can emulate the experience and connect to your Apple ID. However, there is a compromise: your security and privacy. This app has been a bit …

It only took two days before Apple's fingerprint sensor got hacked. Germany's Chaos Computer Club cracked the protection around the Apple fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S, only two days after the device went on sale worldwide. The group posted on their site saying that their biometric hacking team …

The popular open source software company, Mozilla, has officially released the latest version of its well-known internet browser Firefox, bundling the program with 17 fixes to the original security system. Firefox 24 was released to the public earlier today and is downloadable from the Mozilla website now. This version of …

Media lobby groups like the MPAA and RIAA in America and the BPI over here in the UK, have been using all sorts of nefarious tactics over the past few years, to try and block sites related to piracy. They've used DMCA takedown requests – that have even targeted their …

Legally embattled Kim Dotcom, founder of Megaupload, worker on Baboom and one day possible political driving force, has announced that his cloud backup service MEGA, has won a prize for security and privacy in 2013, from the Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards. Known as the ANZIA, these prizes are …

Police in Argentina have arrested a 19 year old man who has been accused of leading a gang of hackers. They targeted international money transfer and gambling websites. He has been nicknamed the ‘superhacker'. Police claim he was raking in around $50,000 (£31,500) a month from his bedroom in Buenos …

In the latest in a long line of leaked information from ex CIA Edward Snowden it seems that the NSA is in collaboration with the US, Canada, New Zealand and the British GCHQ. They have an active and aggressive programme for obtaining encryption keys and more worryingly, they have also …

The GTA V release is very close now. Less than two weeks away in fact. But don't let that tempt you into trying to download some torrented version to give you a chance to play a leaked version of the game before anyone else, as pretty much all of them …

Use of the anonymising Tor network has increased exponentially in the past couple of weeks, leading to not only the highest tracked user numbers since the birth of the service, but the largest growth spike too, leaving many people wondering what's been behind it. One of the suggested reasons, are …

A new piece of malware has been discovered by the crew over at Malwarebytes, which not only specifically targets important file types for deletion, but once it's complete it doesn't stop harassing you. In-fact it waits for one of the affected programs or files to attempt to start and then …

The New York Times was subjected to a ‘malicious external hack' yesterday, according to a spokeswoman. The attack crippled the website, making it unavailable to many users from around 3pm ET. This is the second time the website has gone offline in the last two weeks. Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman …

Almost one in five people in the United Kingdom have had their online accounts hacked, according to a recent survey on cybercrime. More than 1,500 people were surveyed for the study which will become the first of many over the coming years. Around 2.3 percent lost more than £10,000 due to …

Foxtons are currently reeling from an apparent hack attack. The list of 10,000 account holders was leaked anonymously on Pastebin, a website often associated with leaked information earlier this week. PCPro said it was removed afterwards. The list of names and partially hidden passwords and email addresses is still available …

Riot games has admitted via its official site that unfortunately, a portion of its North American user base, has had their account details exposed in what we can presume was some sort of hack. However, Riot never explicitly states this, saying that instead data was “compromised,” so either it's avoiding …

Google went down on Saturday, dropping over a third of the world's web traffic in the process. Amazon has followed suit just a few days later, with its 40 minutes of inactivity purportedly costing the company as much as $5 million. When sites get this massive, are teething problems expected …

Companies which are classified as being critical to the infrastructure of the United Kingdom are going to receive support to prevent serious cyber attacks. A new service is starting which will combine industry experts with the services of a British eavesdropping agency. Yesterday the two cyber incident response units launched …

A group of Chinese hackers called the ‘Comment Crew' have resumed their attacks against dissidents. FireEye, a security organisation who specialise in stopping sophisticated attacks have documented attackers who are using a new set of tools and evasion techniques. The company cannot name their clients but Rob Rachwald, director of …

As if we didn't have enough security concerns at the moment, here comes another one to make the situation worse. HTTPS, long the staple of website logins, is now said to be vulnerable to a new Department of Homeland Security debuted vulnerability, that allows those using it to potentially steal …

Security researchers at Trustwave have revealed a vulnerability with high tech Japanese toilets. The issue means that anyone who downloads the Inax Satis application can control any high tech toilet. According to Trustwave all Inax Satis Bluetooth toilets have the same Bluetooth Pin (0000) hardcoded. Anyone who downloads the application …

The Internet Watch Foundation has warned that legitimate, innocent websites are being hacked to serve images of child sex abuse. The charity has announced that in the last six weeks they have received 227 reports of internet users being directed from completely legal porn sites to web pages hosted on …

At least half of all Dark Net websites using the TOR network have been compromised, infected with FBI sanctioned malware that can potentially track a site visitor's IP address and the owner of the Freedom Hosting company that provided a lot of the back end storage for many of the …

To help spread their latest viruses and trojans, malware creators are turning to legitimate content distribution platforms – meaning no one should trust downloads from any site without having a quick check first. The latest infection was picked up by the guys over at digital security solution firm, Zscaler Inc, …

We've all heard about PRISM at this point and we're all suitably terrified. Unfortunately, the scares don't stop there, as new documents released today have detailed one of the NSA's tools of the trade. Known as X-Keyscore, the metadata and content analysis tool is able to track down a person's …

Despite being declared dead by Marc Zuckerberg back in 2010, privacy is still alive and kicking in some circles and thanks to recent PRISM revelations, it's a hot topic for some people. However, government spying was hardly the first warning we had – hackers have been telling us to tighten …

You'd think with Sony's big security hiccup last year, where most PlayStation 3 owners had their details stolen by hackers, that companies would have learned their lesson. Virgin, despite having a founder who I heartily agree with on a few things, seems to be one of those companies, as according …