Greek researchers have found a security loophole within the way that computer memory functions and could be used to retrieve password and other data from it even when it is in standby mode. The researchers warn that the security loophole could also be used by criminals to obtain personal information, however it could also be […]

GCHQ will provide advise to Britain’s senior business leaders on how best to counter the threat of cyber attacks within a program that is the first pairing of Government intelligence services working in such a way directly with the private sector. The Cyber Security for Business Forum The Cyber Security for Business forum follows the […]

Spear-Phishing Campaign Identified on Facebook A “spear-phishing” campaign has been identified by Facebook that used compromised email accounts to scrape information from Friends Lists on the site. Affected Facebook users have reported receiving targeted spam messages that had been sent to personal email addresses registered to their Facebook account. The “spear-phishing” emails posed as messages […]

Arrests after Malicious Tweets Sent to Tom Daley In 2012, a 17-year old boy sent a malicious tweet to diver and gold medal hopeful, Tom Daley. The malicious tweet read, “You let your dad down I hope you know that.” Tom Daley’s father had died of cancer the previous year and the boy who had […]

The Blizzard battle.net hack exposed the email addresses of millions used to access games such as World of Wardcraft, Starcraft and Diablo. Blizzard battle.net reported the breach in a message posted to its battle.net account management service and requested that players should change the account login details, however, it had not identified any evidence to […]