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Chariots on Fire for White Hat Rally

Register now for the security industry’s 4th annual driving challenge in support of Barnardo’s
10 February 2012

UK attitudes to online safety and personal safety are different

A YouGov survey commissioned by SAS shows that the UK public are likely to trade privacy for security on the streets, but are wary of giving up privacy on the wire.
10 February 2012

UK security skills are ‘wholly inadequate’

Baroness Neville-Jones, the government’s special representative to business on cyber security, and a former security minister, says that the UK lacks adequate cyber security expertise.
10 February 2012

Google Wallet vulnerable to brute forcing the PIN

Security researcher Joshua Rubin has published details of his research showing a vulnerability in the Google Wallet near field communication payments system for Android.
10 February 2012

Google fixes 20 flaws with latest version of Chrome browserGoogle fixes 20 flaws with latest version of Chrome browser

Google is keeping up its fast-and-furious Chrome development pace with the release of version 17, just two months after version 16 came out and one day after Chrome for Android was introduced.
09 February 2012

Feds should provide industry with cybersecurity data and incentives, experts testifyFeds should provide industry with cybersecurity data and incentives, experts testify

The US communications industry needs better information sharing, tax breaks, and liability protection from the federal government to improve cybersecurity, experts told a House panel on Wednesday.
09 February 2012

New Android malware bags millions in revenuesNew Android malware bags millions in revenues

A new piece of Android malware, named Android.Bmaster, has infected hundreds of thousands of devices in China and is able to generate millions of dollars in annual revenues.
09 February 2012

ODVA publishes cybersecurity guidelines for industrial automation networks

ODVA, an organization set up to improve industrial automation processes and security, has issued a set of cybersecurity guidelines for manufacturers and vendors to follow.
09 February 2012

Bigger is not better when it comes to DDoS attacks

Small-scale targeted distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can cause more damage to an organization that large-scale bandwidth-gobbling attacks, concludes a recent report by application security provider Radware.
09 February 2012

Source code for Symantec's pcAnywhere published after failed extortion attemptSource code for Symantec's pcAnywhere published after failed extortion attempt

A hacker associated with an Anonymous affiliate has released source code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere security software onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an apparent attempt to extort $50,000 from the security vendor.
09 February 2012

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