Security

Public Calls For Stronger Data Breach Penalties

Consumers would be in favour of stronger regulations for organisations that lose their personal data, according to a new survey

14 years ago

European Parliament Adopts Pro-ACTA Resolution

MEPs have voted in favour of the controversial ACTA agreement, paving the way to its final adoption

14 years ago

Researchers Uncover Palm webOS Security Bugs

Researchers discovered several webOS security flaws, including a bug that could help attackers create botnets

14 years ago

Social Disease: Facebook, Google Track NHS Site Visits

Facebook and Google know about what illnesses you looked up on your visit to the NHS Choices site

14 years ago

Security Vendor Reports Sharp Rise In Malware

Panda Security has found that more than 20 million new malware strains have already been created this year

14 years ago

LANDesk Targets Automation And Mobile Device Security

Acquisition by Thoma Bravo has focused LANDesk on its expansion into providing mobile device management services

14 years ago

Most Employees Would Pilfer Company Secrets

Seventy percent of employees plan to steal secret information when leaving their job, according to security firm Imperva

14 years ago

Will High-Speed Malware Crash The Internet?

How do we avoid the collapse of the Internet under the strain of more malware attacks at higher speeds, asks…

14 years ago

Exploit Code For Stuxnet’s Unpatched Target Goes Public

Exploit code for one of the zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Stuxnet has been posted online

14 years ago

ICO Issues First Data Loss Fines

A county council and an employment agency are first to feel the wrath of the Information Commissioner

14 years ago

NATO, EU And US Plan Action Against Cyber-crime

European countries are to form their own Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to fight Internet threats

14 years ago

Scottish Hacker Gets 18 Months Prison Sentence

The Scottish spammer who pleaded guilty last month to charges of distributing malware has been jailed

14 years ago

Google Rushes Out Patch For Gmail Security Flaw

Google has quickly fixed a vulnerability that could allow someone to send spam to Gmail users after they visited a…

14 years ago

‘Digital Vaccine’ Needed To Beat Botnets

A government-backed vaccination scheme is needed to tackle the huge number of infected PCs, say researchers

14 years ago

Twitter Bomb Joker Takes Battle To High Court

Paul Chambers' appeal against conviction goes to the High Court, while Britain's senior Judge warns Twitter could disrupt jury trials

14 years ago

Malware Infected Malware Challenges Antivirus Detection

Malware exists that infects other malware on a system making detection more complicated for antivirus software

14 years ago

Invincea Protects By Virtualising PDF Reader Environment

Invincea moves Adobe PDF files into a sacrificial virtual environment to prevent infection from Reader malware

14 years ago

More Than A Million Web Sites Infected By Malware

The number of infected web sites doubled during the last quarter, according to Dasient's latest quarterly malware report

14 years ago

Facebook Messages: The Security Fall-Out

Facebook Messages is the end of email, according to Mark Zuckerberg. Peter Judge thinks it's going to have privacy issues

14 years ago

IT Departments Struggle With Downtime And Security

Network downtime concerns most IT, security and operations professionals but only two-thirds have a planned response

14 years ago

Experts Say China Web Traffic Hijack Was ‘Overhyped’

Data analysis of the China Telecom Internet traffic hijack show claims are incorrect and overhyped, experts say

14 years ago

Most Businesses Failing To Erase Sensitive Data

Most businesses are failing to 'retire' their sensitive data, according to a new survey from Kroll Ontrack

14 years ago

Google To Delete UK WiSpy Data

Google has signed a commitment to improve data handling following the infamous 'WiSpy' incident, says the ICO

14 years ago

Chinese Web Hijack Poses Huge Security Risk

The apparently innocuous rerouting of Internet traffic through a Chinese ISP is a warning that next time it could be…

14 years ago

China Telecom Denies Internet ‘Hijack’ Intent

The ISP claims that an incident in April, where 15 percent of the world's Internet traffic was re-routed through servers…

14 years ago

Adobe Secures Reader X With Sandboxing Technology

The new sandboxing capabilities in Adobe Reader X arms Windows users with PDF-flaw protection, the company says

14 years ago

IT Managers Struggle To Tackle Emerging Threats

IT security is a high priority but staff struggle with emerging threats from social networking, mobiles and the cloud

14 years ago

Facebook Fault Prevents Women From Logging On

Women were briefly locked out of their Facebook accounts earlier this week due to a bug in the social network

14 years ago

Smartphone Security Is The Elephant In The Boardroom

Using business phones for personal use presents security challenges that few firms can meet effectively, claims Ovum

14 years ago

Dell Integrates Data Protection And Encryption For Windows

Dell adds file-level encryption to protect data on laptops, desktops, USB drives, external drives, and optical storage

14 years ago