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The TorrentTags database aims to provide a reliable website where users can go and check for "dangerous" torrents, files that are being watched by copyright holders and might lead to legal troubles further down the road. View full story

Digital Constitution, a website devoted to how Microsoft is fighting government surveillance and working to protect online privacy in a digital world, was hacked to promote online casinos. View full story

Heading into the weekend, we learned the Chinese hackers who hit the Office of Personnel Management had a whole year to root around in the security clearance database. Now we find out they were “root” while they were doing it. View full story

Datacentre operators are putting the integrity of their facilities at risk by prioritising the physical security of their sites over safeguarding them from cyber attacks. That was the view of several speakers at a datacentre security event held by trade association TechUK, who warned facilities are increasingly seen as a lucrative target for hackers. View full story

Are executives at Britain’s biggest companies ‘cyber-literate’? It turns out to be a tough question to answer according to a new survey of board-level members at FTSE 100 firms by security firm tripwire. View full story

During testimony today in a grueling two-hour hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta claimed that she had recognized huge problems with the agency's computer security when she assumed her post 18 months ago. View full story

Security researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way thousands of popular mobile applications store data online, leaving users' personal information, including passwords, addresses, door codes and location data, vulnerable to hackers. View full story

Email records on computers in Downing Street are subject to automatic deletion within three months through a system which makes it almost impossible for the public to view them under the Freedom of Information Act, former staff have disclosed to the Financial Times. View full story

Companies spanning retailers, travel companies, media & entertainment, gambling firms and banks have far more mobile apps owned by them or referencing their brand than they are aware of, many of which come from a new breed of hacker intent on compromising their digital assets and putting their customers at risk. View full story

Snoops are exploiting vulnerabilities in China’s most frequented websites to target individuals accessing web content which state censors have deemed hostile. Even users who run VPN connections to access websites that are blocked by China’s censorship technology, often called the Great Firewall (GFW), are potentially being tracked. View full story