Skyhigh Networks takes VC cash to patrol corporate networks
Skyhigh Networks has trousered $ 20m from VC firms keen on the security company’s tech for snooping on corporate networks and locking down banned apps.…
US power grid the target of ‘numerous and daily’ cyber-attacks
Report finds utilities vulnerable, threatened
The US electricity grid is under near constant attack from malware and cyber-criminals, yet most utility companies implement only the barest minimum of security standards, according to a new report released by Congressmen Ed Markey (D-MA) and Henry Waxman (D-CA).…
Report: China IP theft now equal in value to US exports to Asia
Stricter security testing, sanctions and legal counterhacking needed
China is responsible up to 80 per cent of US intellectual property theft, which a government report has estimated accounts for $ 300bn in lost exports, roughly the equivalent of the current American trade balance with Asia.…
Spam and the Byzantine Empire: How Bitcoin tech REALLY works
Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Analysis Why does Bitcoin work? Fraudsters should have left it in cinders years ago, and might have done, if it wasn’t for two things: spam and the Byzantine Empire.…
Aha, I see you switched on your mobile Wi-Fi. YOU FOOL!
PNL bug still leaving door open to hackers – security bod
Security expert Raul Siles has warned that years after it was first identified, the Preferred Networks List (PNL) Wi-Fi bug remains unaddressed on many an iPhone, Android phone, and Windows or BlackBerry handset.…
INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham’s cottage industry
‘If this nerve centre didn’t exist, neither would I’ says Reg man
Geek’s Guide to Britain For staff at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, there’s an air of Fight Club about the place. The first rule about GCHQ is you don’t talk about GCHQ.…
Microsoft exposes green users’ privates in web quiz snafu
Web design 101 guys, this is basic stuff
Microsoft has plugged a flaw in its Greener IT Challenge website that leaked the names and email addresses of users who took a quiz on the site.…
Experts: Network security deteriorating, privacy a lost cause
One suggestion: ‘Don’t armor the sheep, hunt the wolves’
Ethernet Summit Internet and network security is bad, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. To make it better, CIOs and IT admins need to rethink the way that they approach protecting their networks from hackers and other miscreants.…
Security Twitteratti: Twitter’s 2FA does sweet FA for biz
Shared accounts? #FacebookIsBetter
Security-watchers don’t appear overly impressed with Twitter’s introduction of two-factor authentication (2FA) to its service.…
Kim Dotcom threatens to sue Twitter, others over patent
The controversial MegaUpload founder claims he holds the patent for two-factor authentication and all he wants from the tech companies is money for his defense.
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