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Degree in ‘digital fingerprints’

BBC News Search: computer security — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:04:10 +0000

A new degree in digital forensics will teach students how to recover deleted files and unravel coded messages on social networking sites.

Cyber crime ‘more than doubled’

BBC News Search: computer security — Wed, 05 May 2010 05:16:43 +0000

An online safety group says electronic crime in Wales has more than doubled since last year.

UK seeks cyber security experts

BBC News Search: computer security — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:14:15 +0000

A government-backed competition has been launched to find Britons who can help protect the nation from cyber threats.

Are Social Bookmarking Buttons Hijacking AdSense Publisher IDs?

annabelt — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:10:02 +0000

Something has been hijacking the Adsense Publisher ID on some of my pageloads, inserting someone else’s ID in the Google ads instead of mine and stealing Adsense revenue. I’ve been investigating this with some members of the Google Help forums and the Fiddler HTTP debugger.

Security update hits Windows PCs

BBC News Search: computer security — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:52:35 +0000

Thousands of PCs around the world have been paralysed by a security update that wrongly labelled part of Windows as a virus.

MI5 dumps staff lacking IT skills

BBC News Search: computer security — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:19:27 +0000

MI5 is ditching staff who lack computer skills in a programme of compulsory and voluntary redundancies.

‘Cyber attacks’ on Vietnam sites

BBC News Search: computer security — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:34:17 +0000

Web giant Google says malicious software has been used to spy on online critics of bauxite mines in Vietnam.

Inside the mind of a Russian hacker

BBC News Search: computer security — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:40:40 +0000

BBC News travels between Siberia and Cyberspace to uncover why Russia is the home of hacking.

US lifts lid on cyberwarfare plan

BBC News Search: computer security — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:53:09 +0000

The White House lifts the lid on a secret plan outlining how the government will protect US networks from cyber warfare.

Green burial charity rents bunker

BBC News Search: computer security — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:51:33 +0000

A former Hampshire nuclear bunker which can house 30 people becomes the HQ for a charity promoting green burials.