Wi-Fi hack caused TK Maxx security breach
The biggest loss of credit-card data in history was brought about largely because of lax wireless LAN security, it has emerged
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Researcher demonstrates SSL attack
Moxie Marlinspike has demonstrated a man-in-the-middle attack that could allow an attacker to intercept login details for supposedly secure websites
London tenants' data left in pub on USB
Thousands of tenants of two London housing associations had their data exposed after a contractor left an unencrypted memory stick in a London pub.Banking details of 800 Lewisham Homes tenants were on the unencrypted USB drive, which contained personal information of 20,000 tenants of the housing association in total, data protection authority the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said on Thursday.
GCHQ pioneers on birth of public key crypto
Two men who played a role in developing public key cryptography, Clifford Cocks and Ralph Benjamin, talk to ZDNet UK about the invention of the important encryption technique
TomTom admits it shipped malware on devices
Satellite navigation and services company has admitted shipping two Trojans on a number of its devices.
British teen cleared in 'e-mail bomb' case
Judge rules that denial-of-service attacks are not outlawed by the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act.
BP: Cyberterrorism threat is increasing
Attacks on the critical national infrastructure are becoming increasingly likely, claims BP's manager of digital security services
Symantec to block exploits in IE
Security vendor Symantec has launched a project aimed at plugging holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).Project 'Canary' will run alongside IE "looking for attempts to exploit the browser", according to Adam Bromwich, senior manager for the development of advanced concepts at Symantec.
U.K.'s Home Office admits to database breaches
The government agency says four of five incidents involved members of staff accessing databases for unauthorized purposes.
McAfee: Yahoo search most 'risky'
Search company has not sought to refute research from McAfee that claims Yahoo returns the riskiest results of the top five search engines