Security

Gartner Touts Reprovisioning For Threat Protection

Analysts at Gartner are advocating workload reprovisioning as the best protection against advanced attacks

13 years ago

MoD Videos Warn Of The Perils Of Twitter

The MoD has begun a video campaign warning of the dangers of social networking sites such as Twitter

13 years ago

Adobe Update Patches 36 Critical Bugs

Adobe's security update has patched some critical vulnerabilities for Reader, Acrobat, Shockwave and Flash

13 years ago

APT Detection Appliance Launched By Trend Micro

Trend Micro adds real-time, network monitoring and remediation tools to detect advanced persistent threats

13 years ago

NHS Researchers Lose Laptop With 8m Patient Records

Researchers for London Health Programmes have lost unencrypted records of 8.63 million NHS patients

13 years ago

Facebook Juror Faces Prison For Contempt Of Court

Juror Joanne Fraill, who used Facebook to contact a defendant, is now facing up to two years in prison

13 years ago

PCI SSC And Cisco Guides On Securing Virtual Systems

The PCI Council's latest guide explores virtual environment security while Cisco shows how to achieve compliance

13 years ago

Anonymous Targets Head Of US Federal Reserve Bernanke

Anonymous has identified the US Federal Reserve as a potential target and urged its boss to stand down

13 years ago

HMRC To Use ‘Web Robots’ To Hunt Down Tax Cheats

Tax cheats beware: HM Revenue & Customs is planning to use web bots to crack down on tax evasion

13 years ago

Government Services Could Go Onto Facebook

Users could use Facebook or Twitter to access government services in the future, according to the Cabinet Office

13 years ago

US Plans Investment In Building Secure Smart Grid

The White House announced a smart grid proposal, as a PwC report underscored threats facing utility firms

13 years ago

IMF Breach May Be Nation-State Phishing Attack

A major attack on the International Monetary Fund appears to have been triggered by a spear phishing attack

13 years ago

Security Summed Up: Gullible Users Need Protection

Hackers embarrass the companies they exploit but the victims who need better protection are their customers, says Eric Doyle

13 years ago

Juror Faces Charges For Contacting Defendant Via Facebook

A juror in a major drugs trial is facing contempt charges after contacting one of the defendants on Facebook

13 years ago

EU Readies CERT Team To Fend Off Cyber Attacks

The European Union has created its own taskforce to counter the growing threat of cyber attacks

13 years ago

Spanish Police Website Hacked By ‘Anonymous’

The Anonymous group has carried out a DDoS attack in response to the arrest of three alleged hackers in Spain

13 years ago

Google Removes More Android Malware

Google has removed 10 spyware-bearing applications from Android Market, as malware sophistication rises

13 years ago

User Data Stolen In Codemasters Hack Attack

Codemasters has closed its Website after substantial customer Information was stolen over a week ago

13 years ago

Turkey Arrests 32 Anonymous Hacker Suspects

Thirty-two people have been arrested in Turkey on suspicion of involvement with hacktivist group Anonymous

13 years ago

Miscreants Fined For Selling T-Mobile Customer Data

Two men have been fined a total of more than £70,000 for illegally selling lucrative customer data to third parties

13 years ago

Illegal Spam Firms Run Like Legitimate Businesses

Spam operations are run like legal business enterprises and rely on banks’ merchant services to function

13 years ago

Spanish Police Arrest Anonymous Operation Hackers

Spanish authorities claim capture of three members of the Anonymous denial-of-service hacker group

13 years ago

Former Ofcom IT Chief Jailed For Fraud

Ofcom's ex-IT services chief has been jailed for defrauding the organisation out of more than £500,000

13 years ago

Adobe Readies Reader, Acrobat Fixes

Adobe's quarterly update will see fixes for security flaws in all versions of Reader and Acrobat

13 years ago

O2 Admits East London Network Outage

O2 customers are once again experiencing network difficulties, this time in East London and Essex

13 years ago

IPv6: Pathetic Tools And Poor Hardware Support

World IPv6 Day proved there is a lot of IPv6 out there, but adoption is still disappointing. The industry needs…

13 years ago

Lulzsec Hackers Warn NHS Over Security

The hacker group Lulzsec has fired a warning shot across the bows of the NHS over its network security

13 years ago

Surrey Council Hit By Biggest ICO Fine To Date

Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 for sending sensitive data to taxi firms, among other breaches

13 years ago

Microsoft Preps 16 Security Fixes For Patch Tuesday

Microsoft will release 16 bulletins next week for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Excel, IE and SQL Server

13 years ago

Citigroup Breach Exposes 210,000 Customer Details

Citigroup has confirmed it has been hit by hackers who have exposed the details of thousands of customers

13 years ago