GCHQ: change your passwords now even if Uber says it contained the breach
Australians Uber users should take note!
Australians Uber users should take note!
Google has an Android patching problem and it has hatched a plan pressure Android partners into resolving it.
WikiLeaks publishes stolen Sony info... IBM opens up threat data... China suspends rule on foreign IT vendors... and more tech news
IDG News Service staff | 17 Apr | Read more
For years, RadioShack made a habit of collecting customers' contact information at checkout. Now, the bankrupt retailer is putting that data on the auction block.
Jared Newman | 26 Mar | Read more
Financial data and news company Bloomberg has developed in-house access controls and embraced several other technological fixes after it emerged last year that the company's journalists had routinely accessed data on how Wall Street clients were using the company's computer terminals.
Grant Gross | 27 Feb | Read more
Fortunately for the iOSphere, Bloomberg found a "person familiar with Apple's plans" to spill the beans and provide a week's worth of rumour cud-chewing over the iPhone 6 display.
Confronted with the latest revelation from the Snowden disclosures, Gen. Keith Alexander says that the NSA obtains data from tech companies only through a court order.
Kenneth Corbin | 31 Oct | Read more
Samsung made a lot of headlines this week, though probably not for the reasons it would like.
An external review of Bloomberg's data policies and procedures has recommended that stronger measures are needed to ensure journalists are unable to view client information through its financial data terminals.
Matthew Finnegan | 23 Aug | Read more
Canonical's ambitious attempt to crowdfund $32 million (£21 million) for the Ubuntu Edge might be falling short but the concept has at least found a symbolic business backer with the news that Information firm Bloomberg has pledged $80,000 to the cause.
John E Dunn | 09 Aug | Read more
Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program would bolster federal continuity, as well as boost security practices at state, local level
Antone Gonsalves | 25 Jul | Read more
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a team of legal experts has called on the U.S. Court of Appeals to free Andrew Auernheimer, a computer hacker recently sentenced to 41 months in prison for illegally accessing data from AT&T's networks.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 02 Jul | Read more
Windows users know it's a good idea to apply security fixes to their PCs as soon as patches are publicly released to prevent malicious actors from infiltrating their machines. But what if, before a patch was issued, the U.S. government was able to exploit those vulnerabilities using information fed to it by Microsoft?
Advanced persistent data theft at QinetiQ linked to Chinese hackers
John P. Mello Jr. | 03 May | Read more
One of the US’s critical military and espionage contractors QinetiQ North America (QNA) was successfully pillaged for huge amounts of top-secret know-how by the infamous Chinese ‘Comment Crew’ or PLA 61398 hacking group in a campaign stretching over years, Bloomberg has reported.
John E Dunn | 03 May | Read more