Computer hackers who created malware that stole about $100m (£70m) have been given long jail sentences in the US. Russian Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in…
Month: April 2016
Hackers wanted: Pentagon tests US cyber defences in first programme of its kind
Hackers wanted to break into the Pentagon. No you’re not misreading that: in the first ever programme of its kind the US government has launched the initiative to test the…
Google: Android security is stronger than ever
The company scanned 6 billion apps per day in the last year as part of its effort to secure Android’s far-flung landscape. By Derek Walter Android security is often portrayed…
Tomorrow's Buildings: Help! My building has been hacked
In 2013, Google – one of the world’s pre-eminent tech companies – was hacked. It wasn’t its search engine that was attacked or its advertising platform or even its social…
Four bugs bait hooks in Asian phishing trip
Human rights activists, journalists targeted. Darren Pauli Malware writers are exploiting four RTF vulnerabilities, in a long-running campaign to target journalists, human rights activists, and Tibetans across Hong Kong and…
Apple complies with greater proportion of US data demands
Apple is consistently more compliant with US requests for access to users’ information than with the rest of the world on average, it has emerged. By Kevin Rawlinson Its own…