GCHQ is to splash out research funds to eight UK universities, who have been picked to help tighten up the UK's cyber-security levels. The universities will benefit from an initial cash handout of £50,000, followed by...

Long time British game developer Codemasters has announced its plans to hire 100 new staff members at its Birmingham and Warwickshire studios. Three quarters will be heading to the latter, while 25 will be joining the former....

Arm has announced that it is forming a joint venture with two other European firms, in order to push the adoption of a common security standard across mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, as well as on game consoles and...

This summer sees the beginning of the Center for Copyright Infringement's (CCI) crackdown on Internet piracy, with major ISPs coming on board to monitor citizens that use peer to peer file sharing applications. Those found by the...

Just before the weekend TweetDeck experienced an outage, with a tweet informing users that: "TweetDeck is currently down while we look into an issue. Apologies for the inconvenience." Rumours quickly arose that the issue in...

The government is planning to put another piece of the surveillance state jigsaw into place as soon as next month. New legislation will allow UK intelligence services to tuck into real-time monitoring of browsing, email and phone...

Ryan Cleary, the alleged LulzSec hacker, is back behind bars having broken the conditions of his bail. Cleary, who is accused of hacking activities including attacking the SOCA website, and running IRC rooms that facilitated...

Speculations of a Microsoft and Nokia partnership to buy RIM have been floating around since 2011, but a couple of days ago WSJ uncovered another twist to the story. It seems that if the rumour was to become a reality, then...

Visa and Mastercard have confirmed in communications with major banks that between 21st January and 25th February, over 50,000 credit card details were stolen from the Global Payments Inc. US payments processor. It was initially...

Future EU data protection legislation is set to increase the risk of huge fines for businesses who utilise the cloud. That was the warning delivered by Vinod Bange, a top London-based IT lawyer, as the EU proposes new laws to...

To celebrate World Backup Day, ITProPortal has teamed up with Trend Micro to give ten lucky readers the chance to win a year's subscription to SafeSync, worth £24.95 each. Trend Micro's SafeSync is a cloud-based storage...

The latest publicised and warned off attack by the hacktivist movement known as Anonymous is just around the corner. Operation Global Blackout, set to occur on 31st March, will target the world's 13 main DNS servers in an effort...

Micro Systemation, a Swedish security company, has released a video revealing how easy an intruder can break the passcode protection of an iPhone or Android device. The demonstration video "Recovering the Passcode from an...

It seems that LulzSec, the hacktivist collective, has been reborn, having struck at a military dating site. While the LulzSec boat isn't officially sailing anymore, a group called LulzSec Reborn - claiming to be the new...

AVG has announced the addition of a Do Not Track feature to its security products. Users of AVG's 2012 security products, both paid and free versions, will benefit from the technology which is added via a service pack. It's...