Academics Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund from Ruhr University Bochum have reverse-engineered and cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 voice ciphers used by many satellite networks.
03 February 2012
Following Symantec’s weekend claim that up to five million Androids may be infected with Counterclank, other researchers suggest that the code is adware rather than malware.
02 February 2012
More than half of policy makers and global cybersecurity experts believe that an arms race is taking place in cyberspace, according to a new report by McAfee and the Security and Defence Agenda think tank.
01 February 2012
PandaLabs’ 2011 report puts facts and figures to what really happened last year: rising malware, cyber-activism, cyberwarfare, increasing mobile malware, more attacks on social networks and the “first large-scale attack on Mac”.
31 January 2012
The iPhone 5 is expected to hit the market sometime this year, but scammers are looking to give you one for "free" right now.
30 January 2012
Symantec describes an Android trojan delivered as malware attached to downloaded game apps.
29 January 2012
New figures from a YouGov survey shows a discrepancy in security awareness between use of public WiFi and home WiFi in the UK, supposedly putting more than £2 billion at risk.
27 January 2012
More than two-thirds of those surveyed by Sophos believe that malware is on the rise, and 61% feel user error is the biggest threat on the internet.
26 January 2012
Mobile operator O2 has apologized for a technical problem that resulted in subscribers' phone numbers being included in header information sent to websites they visited.
26 January 2012
January 28 is the US is Data Privacy Day (it’s also the European Data Protection Day). To mark the event, a new report on users’ attitudes toward and understanding of mobile security issues has been published.
26 January 2012