security

Those of us who lose sleep about whether our systems are sufficiently secure can all feel a little smug relieved that even the guys who look after our national security can get it wrong. Really wrong.

The GCHQ careers website stores passwords in ...

Given all of the bad news on security related incidents, it is refreshing to see some positive news for a change.  Google announced recently that it had reduced account takeovers by 99.7% recently following the implementation of tighter securit...

What are your personal details worth? I'm sure most of us would like to think they are priceless, but we have all seen reports of people who ware happy to give away their personal information to a stranger doing as survey for for the price of a cup ...

Samsung, what on earth were you thinking?

A few days ago we heard some dire news for owners of Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phones when a security researcher demonstrated some gaping security holes at an event called Ekoparty 2012.

These high end A...

You may have thought that Zeus was the god of the sky, rather than a financial fraudster and you would be right.  However, his name has been taken by a piece of financial malware that does exactly that.

 

Zeus is malware that isn...