Security

The history of online drug marketplaces, darknet markets, tor markets, however you want to term them, has been a rocky one. While the original Silkroad had a very long run, it was eventually downed by old fashioned police work, then its successors fell to hacks, scams and exponential growth and …

Synology's NAS devices have usually reviewed quite well here at Kitguru, which is why it was a real shame that a few days ago to learn that its Diskstation Manager software had some major security vulnerabilities that had yet to be fixed. Fortunately now a patch has been released and …

Popular crowd funding site, Kickstarter, was hacked last week and the attackers managed to get away with some of the company's customer data although no payment information was compromised. However, during the breach, some passwords, phone numbers and email addresses were taken. The company was very open and honest about the …

Barclays bank and its customers had a nasty shock yesterday, when it was revealed that the information of people that use the bank, was being sold on black markets and used for all manner of criminal activity, from fraud, to blackmail and other scams. While the bank has a looming …

Dell, a leading maker of personal computers, servers and other hardware that is trying to diversify its businesses these days, has quietly formed a research division for the first time in its history. Traditionally, Dell approached research and development (R&D) in a very minimalist way since for years it had …

Despite having anonymity as their namesake and practice, there are localised version of the hacking movement Anonymous all over the world, and one of them – in this case the Slovenian branch – is claiming to have hacked the FBI, revealing details about its director and login information for many …

Barack Obama might have been pretty non-committal in his response to the Edward Snowden leaks about NSA and GCHQ spying on native and international citizens, but David Cameron has shrugged them off, suggesting that they shouldn't be a surprise to everyone, since TV detective shows are always using potentially illegal spying …

In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks from early 2013, the western world and specifically US and British citizens, have come to accept that the NSA and GCHQ have no doubt snooped in our conversations, metadata, Facebook posts and more, with the excuse that they're protecting us from terrorism. …

For a long time we've seen companies do everything from express apathy towards those that come up with workarounds for their DRM and other console anti-piracy systems, to full blown taking them to court over it and attempting to track down their fans via IP address. However those same companies …

Remember those David Cameron porn filters we talked about potentially causing problems for gaming? Well that could already be happening with certain games, most notably League of Legends and its patcher, which contains files that due to their nomenclature contain the word sex and could therefore be blocked by these …

We all have that one game that we've poured enough hours into that we almost wish Steam would stop reminding us just how many: for me it's Mount and Blade: Warband but for many gamers, it's League of Legends. Of course with any such game, especially one that's 100 per …

Are you 100 per cent happy with your security? According to a recent Kaspersky survey most people are, usually because anyone that's aware of a problem with their system gets it fixed or shored up. It's the ignorant among us that need to be given a backhand and a quick …

Digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is often at the forefront of defending consumer rights and the privacy of individuals online, so it's no surprise that in the wake of increasing NSA snooping revelations and the ongoing lack of consequences for those actions, it's calling for a full scale …

Intel has decided to move past the McAfee name and all that it entails, while at the same time explaining how ubiquitous Intel Security will be in the future.

The Pirate Bay has been shaking up the internet for over a decade at this point, first by helping popularise torrents, then by its founders continually fighting charges that they're responsible for what their user base does and most recently for releasing the Pirate Browser, which helped people circumvent the …

Evidently fed up of parents contacting it to say that their kids have taken their credit card and run up hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their behalf, Blizzard has now enacted a new policy, whereby all Battle.net accounts that have parental controls enabled, will have the ability for …

Despite the glut of gaming no doubt going on in the wake of all the winter and Christmas sales most game distribution channels have been offering for the past couple of weeks, the last few days haven't been an easy time to be a PC gamer. Just a few days …

Earlier this week at the 30th annual Chaos Communication Congress, Dell, among other US based tech firms, was accused of leaving deliberate backdoors in its software and hardware, to make it easier for the NSA to install malware and viruses on the machines and gain access to the information stored …

With Lulzsec betrayed and downed and Anonymous set to cruise speed at the moment, it's been a while since a hacking group has made headlines, but today that changes with DERPTrolling, a group that has systematically downed several gaming services with DDOS attacks, seemingly to spite – or troll at …

The last time I legitimately saw someone hack into an ATM cash machine was John Connor in Terminator 2, but apparently that's still going on, as earlier this year a spree of thievery took place at different cash machines, with the people behind it using memory sticks to upload their …

The administrator of the second iteration of drug marketplace Silkroad, Dread Pirate Roberts, (DPR) has entered “exile” according to another of the site's admins, DefCon, who in a lengthy blog post over the weekend talked about the problems that was causing, as well as the solutions his team had come …

If you had a few spare sheckles around on Christmas Day and consider yourself a bit of an (anti)security buff, then perhaps you shelled out a portion of that for access to a BBC server? This was all possible thanks to a Russian hacker who on Christmas Day managed to …

Late last week, 10 men from a hacking group responsible for stealing and defrauding 10,000 World of Warcraft accounts, were found guilty and dealt sentences as high as two years in a Chinese prison. The first five to be arrested were named Chen, Ma, Zhu, Zhi, and Wang. The operation started off …

It's Christmas time, so in the holiday spirit a lot of websites, including ours, are doing plenty of giveaways and contests, but that doesn't mean you should trust every Facebook page out there.  In the lead up to this festive period, Kaspersky Lab has seen scammers trying to interest Facebook …

If you ever needed an incentive to vote with your wallet on censorship, now's the time to do it. BT has one of those filters that David Cameron loves to much and it's live now, so if you're an existing BT customer, your internet experience is set to be censored …

Despite it being over two years since the original Internet Explorer 6 Aurora exploit was discovered, Microsoft notified and patches issued, new exploits using the very same vulnerability are being discovered, which of course isn't Microsoft's fault, it's the fault of all those IT managers that haven't updated their company's …

In an effort to foster a respect for cyber security within many of the UK's largest businesses, the British government has now introduced a new Kitemark scheme, which will force any companies that want to do business with the government to meet a strict set of digital security guidelines. Understandably, …

Sony is sending out emails to users across the world recommending that they change their passwords. Two members of staff at The Verge received these warning emails, which included the following statement from Sony: “The Sony Entertainment Network team routinely monitors for any irregular activity, and if such activity is …

The overreaching of the US government's domestic and international spy programs continues to be theorised in the latest revelations from Kim Dotcom's extradition trial, with the Megaupload founder and expert witnesses suggesting that the FBI may have used a fake mobile phone tower to record his phone calls, as late …

Anti-malware firm, Kapersky Labs, has released some new data on a survey it conducted that suggests the average user that is hit by an encryption scam malware attack, will face losing around £255 worth of media – and that's if they don'y pay. If they did, it could end up …