London clinic leaks HIV status of patients
A London sexual health centre mistakenly leaked the details of nearly 800 patients who have attended HIV clinics, bosses have admitted. The 56 Dean …
Popular Belkin Wi-Fi routers plagued by unpatched security flaws
If your Wi-Fi network is using the popular Belkin N600 DB router, be warned: it may have several vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to …
Intel says GPU malware is no reason to panic, yet
Malware that runs inside GPUs (graphics processing units) can be harder to detect, but is not completely invisible to security products. Researchers from Intel …
Russia’s Kaspersky threatened to ‘rub out’ rival, email shows
In 2009, Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of one of the world’s top security companies, told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival antivirus …
Internet company Web.com hit by credit card breach
Hackers breached the computer systems of Internet services provider Web.com Group and stole credit card information of 93,000 customers. According to a website set …
DDoS attacks double as criminals leverage home routers, WordPress plugins
The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter of this year was more than double that of last year, according to a …
DRM could be making a comeback in the enterprise
Digital rights management might be coming back to the enterprise, experts say, as long as usability issues don’t get in the way. You might …
New IP address blacklist based on Web chatter
Traditionally, blacklists of malicious IP addresses are assembled using honeypots and intrusion detection systems but a new approach, analyzing chatter on the dark and …
Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach
Personal details of up to 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says. Up to …
New malware turns your computer into a cellular antenna
A group of Israeli researchers have improved on a way to steal data from air-gapped computers, thought to be safer from attack due to …
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