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End point security webinar scheduled for Tuesday It's about three weeks before the new ICO penalties for serious data losses and leaks will begin, so Infosecurity is pleased to be hosting a webinar at 3pm on Tuesday titled: 'End point security – How to stay out of the headlines and avoid a £500 000 fine.'
15 March 2010 HSBC reveals Swiss data theft affects 24 000 high rollers HSBC's Swiss banking operation – operating in an industry that is reknowned for its secrecy – has been rocked by revelations that details on as many as 24 000 of its wealthiest clients have been leaked.
12 March 2010 RSA: M86 introduces one-stop appliance technology and launches into cloud M86 Security has taken the wraps off a one-stop integrated security appliance that combines its threat analysis technology with a drill-down dashboard interface. At the same time the company has extended its web gateway technology into the cloud computing environment.
02 March 2010 Report reveals growth in information security industry Recruitment consultancy specialist, Barclay Simpson, has revealed that the Information Security market is growing.
19 February 2010 Microsoft investigates potential privacy glitch on Windows Live Reports are coming in that recent update to the Windows Live feature of Windows platforms may have triggered a glitch, causing some users to be able to view other users' information.
17 February 2010 Astaro slashes UTM hardware pricing by more than 50% Following the success of offering its firewall software for free late last year, unified threat management specialist Astaro has cut pricing on its UTM hardware systems by more than 50%.
16 February 2010 Research shows more laptops get stolen from homes than anywhere else A study from laptop security vendor Absolute Software claims to show that around a third of UK laptop thefts happen at home. Interestingly, this appears to be a higher ratio of home thefts than elsewhere in the world.
16 February 2010 Thales publishes free guide to securing data centre connectivity With cloud computing and data centre connectivity high on the hot topics list at the moment, data security vendor Thales has published a guide on best practice in the secure data centre connectivity stakes.
15 February 2010 Chip and PIN systems `broken' claim university researchers Ross Anderson and his team at Cambridge University have been reporting on security and operational flaws on the UK's Chip and PIN card authentication system for some time, but now they have published their full report on the technology.
12 February 2010 Data loss concerns over online dating Life assistance company, CPP, is warning online daters about the dangers of giving out personal information this Valentine's day
12 February 2010 Facetime survey reveals rising use of web 2.0 services in companies A major survey of company internet usage, focusing on staff use of social networking sites, instant messaging and internet telephony services, has revealed a significant gap between the perception and the reality as far as IT managers are concerned.
11 February 2010 Serious Fraud Office warns on social networking data harvesting The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has warned that Facebook and Twitter – two of the most popular social networking sites – are actively being used by criminals to harvest users' personal financial details.
11 February 2010 ScanSafe reports expose cyber-criminal malware activity Web security company, ScanSafe, has released its annual report; findings reveal that cyber-criminals are targetting energy companies, pharmaceutical companies and government assets.
11 February 2010 Is your IT security hardware up to high-speed networking? Infosecurity is hosting a 60-minute webinar at 3pm on Thursday, looking at the issues relating to secure high-speed networking and appliances.
10 February 2010 Imperva introduces discovery and assessment services Data security specialist Imperva has launched its discovery and assessement services - essentially an in-depth IT security audit process - in Europe, following its rollout in the US.
10 February 2010 Fourty-four percent of employees steal hardware and intellectual property when leaving their employers Research just release by Landesk claims that 44% of employees have stolen IT hardware and intellectual property – including software and databases – when leaving an employer.
08 February 2010 Council multiple laptop theft highlights security problems The saga of St Albans' council and four stolen laptops – containing the details of more than 14 000 postal voters – is coming to an end, but the security consultants that carried out the investigation say there are still security policy lapses at the council's offices.
04 February 2010 Sophos records a 70% surge in malware and spam on web 2.0 services Research just published by Sophos claims to show a 70% increase in the number of companies reporting spam and malware attacks via social networks.
02 February 2010 Trend Micro and Wipro team up on virtualised security Trend Micro has linked up with Wipro Technologies to develop next-generation virtualisation security systems for data centre users, most notably those operating in public or private cloud networks.
02 February 2010 O2 taps Crossbeam for mobile data security After experiencing an 18-fold increase in mobile data traffic over the last 12 months, O2, one of the UK's five cellular carriers, has installed Crossbeam's X-Series security platform on its network.
02 February 2010 HMRC phishing attacks offer cash rebate as lure Yesterday was the last day in which UK taxpayers could file their 2008/2009 tax returns online – without getting fined for being late – and HMRC reports that tens of thousands of fraudulent phishing emails were sent out last week.
01 February 2010 Disparities in how firms manage their physical and electronic records International research just published claims to show that a growing number of organisations are having to invest heavily in IT systems in order to comply with data management requirements.
01 February 2010 Data breach report reveals need to boost internet security Research carried out by the University of Bedfordshire in conjunction with 7Safe, the IT forensics specialist, has found that there are a number of areas where organisations are commonly neglecting internet security and being rewarded with a data loss incident.
29 January 2010 Third annual UK Ponemon study shows costs of data breaches The third annual UK report into data breaches – sponsored by PGP and carried out by the Ponemon Institute – claims to show that each lost customer record cost organisations an average of £64 in 2009.
29 January 2010 New ransom trojan takes data hostage A new trojan has been spotted that makes users pay a $90 ransom to regain access to their own files and data – and say IT security vendors, it may even leave you feeling grateful.
28 January 2010 Checkmarx identifies new web browser vulnerability Israel's Checkmarx, a company that specialises in program code analysis, claims to have identified a relatively new type of web browser vulnerability called cross-site history manipulation.
27 January 2010 2010 Virtual Conference on Endpoint Security - Beyond the Perimeter - Full conference programme revealed Infosecurity US magazine is excited to announce the 2010 virtual conference on endpoint security, to be held on February 25, 2010. This one-day event brings a series of topical keynote sessions direct to your computer, giving you the flexibility to learn about the latest information security trends and challenges from wherever you are in the world.
26 January 2010 Pogoplug may be the answer to small business' cloud security Cloud Engines has developed a device that turns up to four USB-connected external hard drives into a cloud-accessible data storage resource, allowing anyone with the right credentials to access the data on the drive.
25 January 2010 Social work records found in council's second-hand filing cabinet, according to ICO The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) says it has found Lancashire County Council in breach of the Data Protection Act after social work records containing sensitive personal data were found in a filing cabinet purchased second-hand by a member of the public.
22 January 2010 Data hung out to dry as 4500 USB sticks left in dry cleaners Research just released suggests that as many as 4500 USB memory sticks may have been left in dry cleaners across the UK in the last year, as careless owners left the USB sticks in their clothing sent for cleaning.
21 January 2010 ISACA welcomes strengthening of UK penalties on data breaches ISACA, the not-for profit international association of 86 000 IT security, audit and governance professionals, has welcomed news that the UK government has beefed up the penalties the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) can impose on errant companies causing major data breaches.
21 January 2010 Microsoft slashes IP address storage on Bing to six months Microsoft has announced it will shorten the time it stores internet users' IP address from web search engine queries on its Bing portal down to six months.
20 January 2010 $100 000 cracking prize goes unclaimed at CES Despite 45 teams trying for up to two hours at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it seems that the latest USB drive-equipped Swiss Army Knife - which sports an encrypted (Elliptical Curve and AES) data storage feature - was uncracked.
20 January 2010 Webroot joins the EuroCloud cloud services community Fresh from unveiling a number of cloud security services, notably a software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving solution late last year, Webroot has joined EuroCloud, which is billed as Europe's most influential cloud computing network.
08 January 2010 South Yorkshire police officers investigated over alleged computer misuse It has been revealed that 56 police officers - including eight senior staff - were investigated in South Yorkshire over the last four years, for alleged misuse of computer systems.
08 January 2010 BDO warns firms of security risks of cut-price outsourcing According to the results of a survey just released, almost 80% of UK CEOs and financial directors believe their business is at risk during the current recession, yet few realise that this risk includes potential litigation following cost cutting measures.
08 January 2010 Lawsuit alleges corporate negligence over loss of 30 million social networking usernames and passwords A major lawsuit - stemming from a hacker attack on the RockYou social networking applications software portal - has been filed in the US.
31 December 2009 Secure USB drives have flaws, warns Kingston Kingston Technology, the memory and secure drives specialist, has warned users that some of its DataTraveler secure USB drives - under the right conditions - "a skilled person" can access the data on the drive.
30 December 2009 CA identifies fakeware, search engines and social networks as major information security threats of 2009 In its year-end report on the state of IT security, Computer Associates (CA) has noted that fake security software (fakeware), poisoned search engine results and social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, were the major information security threats of 2009.
18 December 2009 Secure USB sticks help to defend Royal Marsden hospital data The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, whose hospital was one of the first to develop cancer treatments back in the 1850s, is using secure USB sticks as part of a managed security solution to protect patient records.
17 December 2009 Encrypted MoD laptop stolen – along with encryption key The UK Ministry of Defence says one of its encrypted laptops was stolen from its headquarters in Whitehall, central London in November – along with the laptop’s encryption key.
14 December 2009 Mobile data continues to be a security threat - report A report out today claims to show that 92% of UK organisations are failing to fully secure their mobile data.
01 December 2009 Lost naval USB stick triggers investigation The loss of a USB stick - apparently containing data on naval manoeuvres and staff around the UK - has reportedly triggered a major investigation by the government.
01 December 2009 ICO to make data protection compliance easier The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has released a new guide on data protection containing practical advice on data protection compliance. New Information Commissioner Christopher Graham also talked to Infosecurity on the challenges facing ICO.
27 November 2009 100 000 New Zealanders hit by payment card skimming fraud More than 100 000 debit and credit card holders in New Zealand are reportedly having their cards replaced as a result of a potentially major fraud involving a skimming device installed at an Auckland car park.
26 November 2009 One in three workers would steal their employer’s computer data Whilst most IT security systems seem to protect a business computer resource against external attack and hackers, a survey of office workers in London and New York has concluded that around one in three of them would cheerfully steal their employers' computer data to help a friend find a job.
25 November 2009 EastEnders Christmas special scripts subject to data loss A laptop containing the scripts for the EastEnders Christmas special has been stolen in a burglary at the home of one of the script writers, exposing the BBC soap to the risks associated with data loss.
23 November 2009 Webroot reports on fake Verified by Visa phishing scam IT security vendor Webroot says that a phishing scam purporting to come from Visa, the international card issuer, is scamming internet users as they start their online shopping for Christmas.
20 November 2009 Report suggests discrepancy between reported and actual data loss incidents A study released by the Ponemon Institute suggests that the number of reported data loss incidents in the UK is significantly higher than 415 reported to the Information Commissioners' Office.
20 November 2009 Hackers hit leading UK climate research unit Reports are coming in that hackers have breached the servers of one of the world's major climate research units (CRU), posting around 61 megabytes of emails and documents to an FTP server in Russia.
20 November 2009 T-Mobile confesses guilt over customer data theft In what some communication security experts are calling a classic data theft resulting from one or more rogue employees, T-Mobile has admitted its staff sold private details of customers to a third party for use when selling mobile phone deals.
18 November 2009 Verbatim introduces AES-256 equipped Secure ExpressCard solid state drive Verbatim has taken the wraps off a Secure ExpressCard-based solid state drive (SSD) with onboard 256-bit hardware encryption.
17 November 2009 Browser developers scramble to fix major security flaw in SSL technology Reports are coming in that a major security flaw in the way secure sockets layer (SSL) technology renegotiated user sessions across the internet, with software developers reportedly scrambling to develop a fix for the issue they have known about for some weeks.
05 November 2009 Social engineering attacks on agenda at DeepSec conference The DeepSec international IT security conference opens in Vienna, Austria, for a four-day run on 17 November, and social engineering issues are top of the agenda at the event.
05 November 2009 DeviceLock reduces data loss via iPhone and Blackberry local synchronisation DeviceLock, a provider of endpoint data loss prevention software solutions, has said that version 6.4.1 of its DeviceLock software delivers “highly granular, interface-independent control over local data synchronisations” between iPhone, iPod touch mobile devices and corporate endpoint computers.
04 November 2009 UK public lacks confidence in firms' ability to keep data secure Research just released by Symantec claims to show that the UK public lacks confidence that businesses can keep their personal data secure.
29 October 2009 A-Server's cloud-based backup service rolls out in the UK Building on an announcement made at Channel Expo 2009 earlier this year, Belgium's A-Server has announced that the first 70 of its customers in the UK are now hooked up to its cloud-based data backup service.
29 October 2009 Outsourcing providers should prove IT security credentials Outsourcing providers should prove their IT security credentials, said NCC Group, as research commissioned by the IT assurance specialist has found that 89% of large companies in the UK outsource at least one IT system or business process.
28 October 2009 Economic climate increases fears of identity theft Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
28 October 2009 51 000 reasons for data encryption hit Zurich Insurance Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
27 October 2009 UK CIOs reported 356 data loss incidents last year A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss incidents in the period October 2007 to November 2008.
27 October 2009 From pizza delivery to ATM hacker to criminal in two years An Australian pizza delivery man who stumbled on an ATM repair manual on the internet has been sentenced to 100 hours of community service, as well as handed a two year suspended prison sentence, after the hacker obtained more than AU$30 000 (about £18 000) by using the default passwords on certain types of cash machines.
26 October 2009 Hackers successfully target Guardian Jobs site Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.
26 October 2009 RSA Europe: The challenges of data protection There are several reasons why organisations appear not to take data protection seriously, Mike Smart, EMEA product marketing manager at McAfee said at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
26 October 2009 RSA Europe: Card and healthcare protection driving encryption Research released at this week's RSA Europe conference in London claims to show that credit card and healthcare data protection are driving encryption security projects in the public and private sector.
23 October 2009 RSA Europe: Gateway data threatens identity and sensitive information In his keynote at RSA Europe in London, 20 October 2009, Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist, People Security, declared gateway data the next biggest threat to identity and valuable resources.
21 October 2009 RSA Europe: CA-sponsored research reveals bad practice on privileged user accounts A pan-European study of IT and associated professionals has revealed that organisations are neglecting their security options on so-called privilege user accounts.
21 October 2009 Finjan introduces hybrid cloud web security Finjan has taken the wraps off Vital Cloud and Vital Cloud Hybrid, two cloud security offerings that it claims allow businesses to extend their IT security to the "borderless enterprise".
20 October 2009 Data thieves could face jail, not just fines People stealing, selling and using other people's personal data could soon be sent to prison for their crimes rather than just facing fines.
19 October 2009 Sophos ID theft experiment proves UK public are careless with personal data Research carried out with interviews on the streets of Bristol last week has revealed that the public are too careless with their personal data, with too many being prepared to share their private information with complete strangers.
19 October 2009 Half of UK firms lack knowledge on security breaches Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year.
16 October 2009 File encryption software from Security IP protects against company data loss Security IP has released an application prtecting companies against data loss through the protection and control of sensitive data using strong encryption.
16 October 2009 Sophos introduces data loss prevention technology Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss.
16 October 2009 Data loss prevention now a priority says research A report released at Storage Expo in London yesterday claims to show that most organisations are treating data loss prevention as a priority, especially given the media hype about high-profile losses.
15 October 2009 Loss of main user accounts cause anger and bewilderment among Apple Mac Snow Leopard users Apple Computer has been criticised for failing to address a potentially major code flaw in copies of Snow Leopard, its new Mac operating system, which means users' main accounts can get wiped.
14 October 2009 Preparations for ISACA Europe conference get under way Preparations for a three-day ISACA conference in Amsterdam, which opens on 9 November, are now under way and, say the organisers of the event, it promises to be a major event in the European information security calendar.
14 October 2009 QSA system is broken, says Heartland CEO In a session titled ‘Enhancing payment security in 2010’, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems - the subject of potentially the world’s biggest data security breach earlier this year - declared that the model used by quality security assessors (QSA) is “broken”.
14 October 2009 Origin Storage to unveil one terabyte secure drive on 14 October Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.
13 October 2009 Fraud on UK-issued payment cards down 23% Research just released by Financial Fraud Action UK notes that fraud losses on UK payment cards fell by nearly a quarter during the first half of 2009, as criminals apparently targeted cards issued abroad.
12 October 2009 Stolen NHS laptops recovered – no data breach thanks to remote wiping Four stolen laptops belonging to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, which provides mental health services, have been traced and recovered. According to the NHS Trust, no confidential data was compromised due to remote wiping.
12 October 2009 German cybercrime soaring as criminal gangs move in Reports from Germany suggest that almost half of all internet users in the country have been victims of cybercrime as criminal gangs move in on potentially lucrative online scams and phishing expeditions.
12 October 2009 Web 2.0 branding and reputational risks webinar tomorrow Infosecurity is pleased to announce its first webinar on the topic of Web 2.0 branding and reputational risks, which will be held at 3pm (UK time) this Thursday.
07 October 2009 Virtualisation security problems will grow says panel A panel of experts - assembled in London on Tuesday by Check Point Software Technologies - concluded that virtualisation security is a problem that will not go away and, if anything, will grow as more organisations migrate their IT systems to the technology.
07 October 2009 Industry-wide web email attacks spreading Reports are coming in of web-based email services from the likes of Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo being hacked, and large numbers of user account details being posted to the internet.
07 October 2009 Absolute Software introduces ThinkPad recovery technology Absolute Software has taken the wraps off `Lost & Found,' a recovery technology designed for Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. In use, the security software is said to make it easy for anyone finding a ThinkPad laptop to return the unit to its owner.
05 October 2009 Government behind on information security – Eleanor Laing As more and more fundamental tasks in society are carried out online, information security is becoming increasingly important, but the government is not moving fast enough, according to Conservatives MP Eleanor Laing.
02 October 2009 New types of trojan malware appearing says Finjan Computer security researchers say that a new type of trojan horse software has been used to steal money from consumers' bank accounts in Germany.
01 October 2009 Microsoft, security and a digital Britain Ed Gibson, CSO at Microsoft UK explored risks posed by criminals to the digital economy and security at the Security for a Digital Britain conference in Nottingham on 24 September.
30 September 2009 US email archiving software comes to the UK Security IP, the value-added IT security distributor, has announced it is importing and supporting MailArchiva, an email archiving and compliance suite of software from the USA.
29 September 2009 Threats posed by the digital world – data loss and privacy Speaking at the Security for a Digital Britain conference in Nottingham last week, Lord Erroll warned the audience of the security pitfalls of a digital society such as data loss and privacy questions.
29 September 2009 SOCA: cybercrime is global and organised Cybercrime is both global and organised, Mike Humphrey at the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), told the audience at the Security for a Digital Britain conference on 24 September in Nottingham.
29 September 2009 West Midlands Ambulance Service adopts secure, encrypted USB sticks West Midlands Ambulance Service has contracted with Blockmaster, the encrypted and secure USB stick vendor, for the supply of more than 300 SafeSticks for use across its workforce.
28 September 2009 Data loss in the perimeterless zone The increasing blurring of network perimeters has accelerated as a direct result of the introduction of cloud computing to the corporate IT mix, but can your IT security handle the challenge?
28 September 2009 British businesses risk customer data loss as data backup is overlooked Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are putting data at risk of data loss, according to research published by Buffalo Technology, by ignoring data backup.
26 September 2009 BCS launches taxi campaign to publicise data loss The British Computer Society (BCS) has launched a campaign to publicise the issue of data loss, which it said has become a major problem with people leaving portable devices behind in London taxis.
24 September 2009 Ponemon and Imperva survey shows firms struggling on payment data security Research released today by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Imperva, the data security specialist, claims to show that companies are still struggling to protect consumer credit card data.
23 September 2009 Confidela introduces SaaS document control technology Following a beta test of its WatchDox software-as-a-service document control service - which started in June of this year - Confidela has quietly launched the highly secure document control service on both sides of the Atlantic.
22 September 2009 Real-time hackers beating two-factor security An incident in which a US construction firm lost $447 000 in a matter of minutes - despite using two-factor authentication when accessing the company bank account - has highlighted the dangers of `piggy-back' malware which can run in parallel, stealing data and using it alongside the legitimate user.
21 September 2009 Microsoft developing shield for critical Windows flaw Microsoft is reportedly developing a security shield utility that disables a vulnerable component of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and early versions of Windows 7. The release of the IT security tool is expected within the next few days.
21 September 2009 MoJ admits losing 2,000 personal records The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has lost the personal information of more than 2 000 people in the past year, according to the department's annual financial accounts published last week.
21 September 2009 Conservatives unveil plans to reduce the surveillance state Fulfilling earlier commitments by David Cameron, the leader of the party, the Conservatives have published plans to reduce the role of surveillance and protect the public's right to privacy.
18 September 2009 Mobile/cloud workforce security issues covered in webinar recording An informative webinar - in which BigFix, Trend Micro and one of their joint customers in the healthcare sector looked at some of the problems in the mobile workforce and allied IT security sectors - was a great success this Thursday.
18 September 2009 Security and privacy high on agenda of potential enterprise cloud users Research just completed by Unisys claims to show that security and data privacy concerns remain the most significant impediment to the adoption of cloud computing among enterprise users.
17 September 2009 Businesses must rethink security spending to keep hackers out Businesses are prioritising unimportant security fixes while leaving their IT systems open to sophisticated hacking attacks, a major study released today reveals.
16 September 2009 Job seekers at risk of ID theft Andy Gooday, founder of MrBrandAcademy.com, a job seeker training company, says that three percent of job seekers are at risk of ID theft because of the data they include in their CVs. To help job hunters with their data security, Gooday has teamed up with Phil Butler, the well-known cybercrime expert, to publish a free training guide.
14 September 2009 One third of businesses failing to protect sensitive data transfers Research just released by Computerlinks, a UK distributor of IT security and internet technology products, shows that a sizeable number of businesses are failing to protect their most sensitive data.
14 September 2009 Only one week left: Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 Infosecurity Magazine’s Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 is only a week away – sign up now!
14 September 2009 Wigan council lost personal data on children and teenagers Wigan Council has been been forced to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following the theft of a laptop, which resulted into the personal data on around 43 000 children and teenagers being potentially open to abuse.
11 September 2009 NetBenefit adds virtual firewall Hard on the heels of launching a range of dedicated servers based on Intel's Nehalem architecture last week, NetBenefit, the managed internet hosting firm, has added a virtual firewall - based on Fortinet's firewall technology - to its range of security offerings.
10 September 2009 Card spending research reveals UK electronic fraud hotspots Research by the 3rd Man, an electronic fraud and security specialist, has uncovered some interesting statistics about cardholder-not-present transactions, as well as fraudulent mail order plus online card purchases in the UK.
08 September 2009 More awareness needed to combat ATM crime As the annual cost of ATM crime in Europe approaches €500 000, and the number of ATM fraud and attacks increases 149% in a year, more security awareness among consumers is needed, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
08 September 2009 Microsoft IIS security flaws cause a stir A steady stream of security flaws in the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) software is causing a stir in security researcher circles, with hackers reportedly issuing details of the flaws faster than Microsoft's R&D staff can patch them.
07 September 2009 How is the information security industry coping in the economic downturn? As the recession continues to chew into budgets, and cybercriminals see increased opportunity for looting, CISOs need to ensure that their information security defences remain strong but affordable. Find out more for free!
07 September 2009 Eight million chip and PIN users at risk of ID fraud Research carried out by LV (formerly Liverpool & Victoria) Home Insurance claims that, over the last 12 months, eight million adults in the UK have given their cards - plus their PIN details - to someone else to make a purchase on their behalf or get cash from an ATM leaving the vulnerable to ID fraud.
04 September 2009 Many people use same password on all websites says CPP More than 1.7 million people are at risk of falling victim to internet fraud because they use exactly the same password every time they go online, a report from card security insurer CPP has warned.
04 September 2009 Mac Snow Leopard operating system poses security risk due to Flash plugin Users of the latest version of the Apple Mac operating system - Snow Leopard - are recommended to check their version of the Flash plugin as soon as possible, as Sophos' security consultant Graham Cluley has warned that the software silently downloads a copy of an older, and potentially less secure, version of the Flash extensible video player.
03 September 2009 Can the IT department survive Web 2.0? Risk-averse IT departments that are too cautious in their approach to Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, online applications and cloud computing could be signing their own death warrants.
26 August 2009 Accidental insider security incidents more frequent than malicious attacks Accidental security incidents caused by company insiders are more frequent and could potentially have a greater impact on information security than malicious insider attacks, according to research by IDC, commissioned by RSA.
26 August 2009 DWP does not keep track of CIS security breaches The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has admitted that it does not keep a running total of security breaches committed on its sensitive Customer Information System (CIS) database, prompting accusations that it is not taking adequate steps to protect personal data from intruders.
24 August 2009 Data breaches: Who has been named and shamed in the last year?: Find out more on 24 September! Infosecurity Magazine’s 2009 Virtual Conference on Information Security will look at recent data breaches in both public and private sectors in a session headed by Bloor Research, CheckPoint and the Open Security Foundation.
24 August 2009 Motorola tackles problem of wireless LAN security Motorola has taken the wraps off a remote wireless security testing package that the company says can pro-actively assess the security posture of wireless networks.
21 August 2009 Rogueware is the new cybercrime threat says PandaLabs Research just released by PandaLabs claims that a new category of malware has arrived in the information security threats industry. Known as rogueware, the threat has, the company says, become a thriving business area for cybercriminals because the industry is "not even close" to winning the battle to stop it.
20 August 2009 Storage Expo event gearing up for cloud security advice Storage Expo - the IT data storage event that takes place at London Olympia between October 14/15 - has ramped up its education programme this year.Cloud security appears high on the agenda at this year's show and conference
20 August 2009 Hackers steal unpublished Leona Lewis songs Hackers have broken into the IT system at Simon Cowell’s record label, Syco Records, stolen three unreleased Leona Lewis songs, and leaked them online.
20 August 2009 19% of online attacks targetting social networking sites Research just released says that 19% of all hacking incidents centered on social networking sites during the first half of 2009. The study, from Nebulas Solutions Group, noted a 30% rise in the percentage of online attacks compared with the first half of 2008.
19 August 2009 US man charged with stealing 130 million payment card details In what security experts are calling 'the largest ever identity theft case in modern history', a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards.
19 August 2009 Charities Security Forum looks for new members The Charities Security Forum (CSF) is looking for new members in the charitable sector, following its creation just over a year ago.
18 August 2009 Campaign Monitor hit by hacker server incursion Campaign Monitor, the Australia-based email marketing software developer, has warned users of compromise to its servers that took place over last weekend.
17 August 2009 Fortify warns on Ministry of Defence XSS site flaw The ongoing industry security problem of cross site scripting (XSS) flaws has hit the Ministry of Defence, Fortify Software, the application vulnerability specialist, has reported.
17 August 2009 Web-based malware attacks soaring says ScanSafe In its second quarterly report on IT security threats of 2008, software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist ScanSafe reported that web-based malware had surged by over a third when compared to the first quarter of the year.
17 August 2009 Smartphones to become major hacker target says Google expert Contrary to the views of many of his colleagues in the IT industry, Rich Cannings, Google's Android security leader, thinks that smartphones are now a primary target for malware and hacker attacks.
17 August 2009 More firms monitoring their outbound email communications. Research just published claims to show that companies are at last waking up to the security threat of outbound email.
17 August 2009 Unauthorised local authority staff access to personal data is inevitable Reports in Computer Weekly that a number of local authorities are sacking or disciplining staff for viewing personal data on the Department for Work and Pension's Customer Information System (CIS) comes as no surprise, says Cyber-Ark, but merely serves to highlight the need for highly privileged access to this kind of data.
17 August 2009 Digital data security stakes in healthcare rising The issue of data security in healthcare circles has never been higher on the agenda of health managers, and the problem is getting more of a headache all the time, says a white paper from Frost & Sullivan.
11 August 2009 ICO seeks to place a value on privacy protection The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has appointed Watson Hall and John Leach Information Security (JLIS) to undertake a three-month research project with the aim of producing a comprehensive business case for investing in proactive privacy protection.
11 August 2009 UK phones and email subject to surveillance more than 1300 times a day A minor privacy furore has blown up after it was revealed by the Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, that police and other government agencies tapped into phone calls and emails as part of surveillance cases at the astonishing rate of 1381 times a day, every day, throughout 2008.
11 August 2009 Koobface social networking worm gets a facelift Koobface, the first - and arguably the most successful of the social networking worms - is back, having been significantly tweaked by black hat hackers on the internet, reports Kaspersky Lab, the anti-malware and IT security vendor.
10 August 2009 Saudi partnership uncovers next-gen mobile phone malware A partnership between two communications companies, designed to allow mobile phone users in Saudi Arabia to have access to improved mobile phone security, has already uncovered a new and potentially virulent piece of smartphone malware.
10 August 2009 Competition will drive down NHS IT costs, say Conservatives The Conservative party is to reveal plans to cut NHS IT spending by scrapping the government's planned central database for medical records.
10 August 2009 What’s going wrong with information security in government? – Infosecurity’s Virtual Conference Infosecurity is pleased to confirm further details of the 2009 Virtual Conference on Information Security, which takes place online on 24 September.
10 August 2009 PCI-DSS compliance does not always guarantee security Newswire reports that some of the firms who have experienced data breaches in recent months were PCI-DSS-compliant highlights the fact that - even if a company has passed the standard on the regulatory front - this does not guarantee the integrity of their IT security systems, says Tufin Technologies, the security lifecycle management specialist.
07 August 2009 Fibre optic networks not secure without encryption Fibre optic networks are not secure enough to transmit information that has not been encrypted, according to a recent report from IDC Research.
07 August 2009 Twitter goes down under a sustained DDOS attack At around 3:00 pm on Thursday afternoon, Twitter, the extraordinarily popular microblogging portal, fell silent, apparently the victim of a sustained distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.
06 August 2009 Does weak cloud password security mean local storage is best? Hard on the heels of researchers at last week's Black Hat security briefings showing how easy it is to recover third party passwords on Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Office Online services, Andy Cordial, Origin Storage's managing director, said that this highlights the fact that local storage technology is far more secure than the cloud.
05 August 2009 Programme available for the Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 The programme for Infosecurity Magazine’s Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 is now available with an exciting line-up of speakers from the IT security industry.
03 August 2009 Black Hat: major iPhone hack to be revealed today You could never describe the Apple iPhone as totally secure, given the number of jailbreaks that crackers have developed to unlock the popular handset from its partner networks, but researchers at the Black Hat security conference are scheduled to reveal a serious chink in the mobile's armour today.
30 July 2009 Black Hat: Security is not the security team’s problem says Black Hat keynote speaker Douglas Merrill This morning, 29th July 2009, at the Black Hat briefings in Las Vegas, Nevada, keynote speaker Douglas Merrill, told his audience that CISOs are getting information security wrong.
30 July 2009 MI5 website hacked The website of the UK counter-intelligence and security agency MI5, has been hacked with the result that the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded to their computers.
30 July 2009 Black Hat: Legal issues come free with cloud computing The complications and concerns around cloud computing should not be underestimated, argued Alex Stamos, co-founder and partner of iSEC Partners, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, 30 July 2009.
30 July 2009 Network Solutions hit by major card data breach A major data breach - potentially impacting more than 570,000 cardholders around the world - has been discovered by Network Solutions, the internet hosting and systems company.
27 July 2009 Free white paper and webinar explain how to source access assurance technology on a tight budget Access assurance is fast becoming a hot topic in regulatory and best practice circles, for the simple reason the technology that drives it can save a company a significant fine for failing to comply with the latest data protection.
25 July 2009 HSBC hit by three million pound fine A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC's divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.
24 July 2009 Twitter email account hack highlights cloud dangers Imperva, a data security specialist, says that last week's hacking of a Twitter senior executive's email account - details of which are now fully emerging - was the result of a combination of poor security practices and safeguards.
23 July 2009 Google promises 'the end of viruses' with Chrome operating system Google has made the claim that its Chrome operating system - which is designed to flesh out its web browser of the same time into a fully fledged PC system environment - will spell the end of viruses and malware as we know them.
22 July 2009 Twitter company files leaked in Cloud Computing security failure Twitter has once again been hit by a lapse of security, this time with a hacker posting a set of internal company documents from the Twitter site and service, lifted from the GoogleApps online data sharing and collaboration system.
16 July 2009 iPhone may be weak link in company information security defences Research commissioned by DeviceLock, the end point security company, claims to show that many firms are failing to act on the information security risks that the Apple iPhone poses to their IT resources.
15 July 2009 NHS hit by over 8000 viruses in one year The NHS was infected by over 8000 (computer) viruses over the last year, many of which could have been avoided if information security policies and technologies were properly adopted.
14 July 2009 Net hacks and hoaxes more sophisticated than ever says Network Box Network Box, the managed security internet service provider, has published a free guide explaining - in plain English - a guide to spotting common hoaxes, hacks and other internet horrors.
10 July 2009 Most UK organisations hit by data breach Seventy percent of UK organisations have been hit by one data breach or more in the last year compared to 60% the year before, according to a Ponemon Institute survey on encryption and information security commissioned by enterprise data protection firm PGP Corporation.
09 July 2009 Facebook profiles ruin chances of becoming a spy Facebook and other social networking sites are coming under fire for ruining the spy industry as finding new recruits without an online trail is becoming next to impossible, according to IT security specialist NCC Group.
08 July 2009 Quocirca releases encryption value analysis report Quocirca, the business and IT research analysis company, has released a report looking at how encryption can add value to an organisation.
06 July 2009 Data leakage webinar coming up Data leakage - one of the IT security hot topics of the moment - is on the agenda of a joint Cyber-Ark/Websense webinar being broadcast live at 3pm today, and available via the Infosecurity web site on a recorded basis after that time.
02 July 2009 Cryptography breakthrough paves way to secure cloud services A research student who had a summer job at IBM, has cracked a cryptography problem that has baffled experts for over 30 years. The breakthrough may pave the way to secure cloud computing services.
30 June 2009 The information security industry needs to offer more than just security, says Secerno COO The information security industry needs to adapt to cloud computing, not the other way around, says Secerno’s founder and COO, Paul Davie, who talks to Infosecurity about how offering security is no longer enough
30 June 2009 Iceman pleads guilty in Carders Market card data theft case Max Butler - aka Max Vision and Iceman - has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases.
30 June 2009 Study shows high vulnerability of social networkers Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter users are more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infection than they realise, a survey has revealed.
26 June 2009 SMEs hit by increasing spear phishing attacks A European-based gang behind sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks on small and medium enterprises has returned after a five-month break, says security firm iDefense.
24 June 2009 Facebook hack steamrollers privacy settings Social networking site Facebook has fixed a potentially major security bug on its social networking portal software on Monday that, for more than two weeks, allowed hackers in the know to bypass user privacy settings on the service.
23 June 2009 ISACA backs power increase for Information Commissioner ISACA, the not-for-profit organisation that seeks to encourage best practice in the IT security industry, has given the `thumbs up' to plans to significantly increase the powers of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) later this year.
23 June 2009 Peter Wood to present at FaceTime webinar on Tuesday Infosecurity is pleased to report that Peter Wood, chief of operations with First Base Technologies, the penetration testing specialist, is presenting at the FaceTime-sponsored webinar taking place at 10am on Tuesday of this week.
22 June 2009 Parcelforce customer data revealed Parcelforce customers' names addresses and postcodes were available online after a system related to the company's mail tracker service failed.
22 June 2009 Microsoft wireless keyboard cracking technology revealed Users of Microsoft's Optical 1000 and 2000 keyboards should now take extreme care what data they enter using their wireless keyboards, as Dreamlab has taken the unusual step of publishing a 49 page presentation on how to `sniff' any keystrokes out of the ether.
18 June 2009 PBX hacking moves into the professional domain as arrests stack up PBX hacking - the act of cracking into a company PBX and selling long distance/international telephone time to third parties at a discount - is alive and well, despite several years of being out of the news.
15 June 2009 Learn about document security LockLizard investigates the best approaches to document security depending on what clients want to achieve, in its white paper Document Security - a Guide to Securing Your Documents.
15 June 2009 PC infections on the rise due to botnets Research from IT security vendor McAfee suggests that PC infections are on the rise once again, largely as a result of botnet operators rebuilding their swarms of infected machines in the wake of the recent McColo ISP shutdown.
12 June 2009 More analyis on the ATM phantom withdrawal court case ruling Hard on the heels of last week's long-awaited ruling on the first ATM phantom withdrawal case to pass through the courts, Alistair Kelman, a barrister and presenter on Infosecurity's webinar programme, has posted an interesting report and analysis on his website.
11 June 2009 Learn about securing high-privilege system access management British security and risk management specialist, Brookcourt Solutions, looks at how to secure high-privilege system access management in the white paper Turning the Spotlight on IT’s Dirty Little Secret: Securing the Common Point of Failure in IT Risk Controls.
11 June 2009 Apple releases Safari 4.0 to counter security flaws Apple Computer has released v 4.0 of its increasingly popular Safari web browser for Windows and Mac OSX-based computers. The release counters the recent security flaws reported in CFNetwork, CoreGraphics, ImageIO, International Components for Unicode, libxml, Safari, Safari Windows Installer, and webKit
10 June 2009 Majority break information security policies – survey The majority of employees admit to serious non-compliant workplace behaviour when it comes to information security, according to a study from the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Californian secure flash drive provider IronKey.
10 June 2009 Learn about information security and USB devices Lumension looks at the information security risks with USB devices – and how to overcome them – in its latest white paper Portable Panic: Evolution of USB Insecurity.
09 June 2009 Judge rules in favour of bank in first UK phantom ATM withdrawal case A judge has ruled in favour a UK bank after a customer took the bank to court regarding eight ATM withdrawals that he claimed he did not make.
05 June 2009 Aussie bank customers hit by advanced phishing techniques Customers of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia are being targeted by a new breed of phishers, who seem intent on scamming them out of their e-banking and payment card details.
03 June 2009 Unencrypted laptop with 109 000 records on pension schemes members stolen An unencrypted laptop containing details on 109 000 pension schemes members with UK pension funds service provider, The Pensions Trust, has been stolen from a third-party office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
03 June 2009 Guide to handling personal data launched by BCS and ISAF The British Computer Society (BCS) has linked up with the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) to launch a professional code of best practice when handling personal data.
02 June 2009 3ami extends the audit envelope to support memory sticks Technology start-up 3Ami has enhanced its Monitoring and Audit Security (MAS) software to support USB and similar memory sticks.
01 June 2009 Google indexes details on thousands of credit and debit cardholders Police in Victoria, Australia are investigating a potentially major security incident in which the stolen personal details of thousands of credit and debit card holders from Australia, Germany and the UK were posted to a blogging site and auto-indexed into the Google search engine.
29 May 2009 RAF data loss included sensitive vetting data The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has omitted information that the theft of hard drives in September 2008 with data on RAF personnel also included highly sensitive RAF vetting records.
27 May 2009 Learn about how to protect against data-stealing malware Data-stealing malware that can evade current security systems could cause serious harm to an enterprise. Trend Micro’s eBook ‘Outthink the Threat’ offers information on data-stealing malware and how to fight it.
19 May 2009 Thirty-two MoD PCs went walkabout in first 131 days of 2009 Statistics from the UK's Ministry of Defence show that a total of 28 laptops and four desktop PCs have been lost or stolen in the period of January 1 to May 11 this year.
17 May 2009 Paypal registration page vulnerabilities revealed Methodman, a so-called 'grey hat' hacker specialising in discovering cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws, claims to have uncovered a number of XSS security flaws in various Paypal registration pages.
15 May 2009 Unlimited online backup from F-Secure An unlimited online backup solution, which works automatically in the background, has been launched by Finnish IT security service provider F-Secure.
15 May 2009 Learn about how to protect data, assets and IP With an increasingly complex legislative and regulatory landscape, ensuring compliance can be difficult. Overtis Systems’ white paper ‘Realising Compliance’ shows how its integrated protection solution VigilancePro™2 can make the task easier.
11 May 2009 BT investigation into eBay hard drives reveals US air defence launch secrets The latest annual BT investigation into the sale of second-hand hard drives on the internet has turned up trumps, with researchers buying a hard drive on the internet auction website eBay, containing the launch procedures for a US military air defence system.
08 May 2009 Information security technology not enough Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.
08 May 2009 RSA: Splunk’s sales benefit from economic downturn Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
06 May 2009 Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics It's not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achieved this.
01 May 2009 Infosecurity Europe: Employee awareness of security is “dangerously immature” says (ISC)2’s Colley John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 EMEA lamented the lack of security is company culture in his talk ‘Are we getting the basics right’ at Infosecurity Europe this year.
30 April 2009 Infosecurity Europe: Lord Erroll calls for greater punishment for cybercrime Lord Erroll stole the limelight, and the audience’s attention on the ‘Who got caught out the last 12 months’ keynote panel at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, 28 April 2009, by calling for greater penalties and repercussions for cybercrime.
28 April 2009 RSA: Lumension and Microsoft ink whitelisting deal Endpoint security company Lumension teamed up with Microsoft at the RSA show to launch a software whitelisting service. The move, which sees the companies sharing information about legitimate software applications, lends increasing credence to the idea that blacklisting malicious software by signature is becoming less tenable as the number of malware variants increases.
22 April 2009 RSA: Symantec CEO Enrique Salem calls for automated information security In his keynote at RSA in San Francisco, Symantec CEO Enrique Salem called for a significant shift in the way vendors and end-users approach information security. Change, said Salem, is needed to fight the current targeted threat landscape.
22 April 2009 Learn about smartphone security with one of the industry's leading IT security experts Infosecurity is proud to announce that Professor Peter Sommer, a leading forensic and IT security specialist, will be participating in the Check Point Software Technologies-sponsored webinar, which takes place at 2:30pm UK time (3:30 CET) on Tuesday, April 21.
17 April 2009 Skype - not as secure as you might think Although VOIP afficionadoes are wont to promote the encrypted nature of Skype Internet telephony calls, it's now becoming accepted that the use of a compressed data mode within Skype opens the gates to pattern recognition and slow, but steady, text-based decoding of the voice transmissions as a result.
15 April 2009 Symantec report observes surge in malicious code for 2008 Security provider, Symantec, found that malicious code activity continued to grow at a record pace throughout 2008, with the most prominent target being confidential information, according to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIV.
15 April 2009 Infosecurity gets twittered up Infosecurity magazine are now on Twitter. Please ‘follow’ us to receive our latest news, views and industry comments.
08 April 2009 “Truly depressing”: GFI laments lack of insight into current IT needs from UK SMEs Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are underestimating the security danger posed by their employees, especially in light of the current recession, according to network security software developer, GFI.
31 March 2009 TelTech intros pay-as-you-use lie detector phone service TelTech has launched what appears to be the industry's first pay-as-you-use telephone voice analysis (lie detection) service.
26 March 2009 One quarter of British databases ‘almost certainly’ illegal A report published this week condemns the growing number of databases in Britain holding information from health and education to welfare, law enforcement and tax.
25 March 2009 (ISC)2 SecureLondon event highlights the importance of getting the basics right Training, education and awareness topped the list of ‘basics’ for information security management in a panel debate held at (ISC)2’s SecureLondon Security Leadership Seminar on Tuesday. The full –day conference, focussed on content security, illustrated that the human factor is becoming a key information security concern in a data-centric world.
05 March 2009 Council staff breach security of National ID database The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have admitted that 33 public sector workers across 30 local authorities have accessed the Customer Information System (CIS) “without business justification”.
26 February 2009 Check Point to revolutionise network security At Check Point Experience in Paris this week, Gil Shwed, co-founder and chief executive of Check Point, announced the company’s intention to fundamentally alter network security with the launch of a software blade architecture.
25 February 2009 Six out of ten employees steal company data A study of US workers has revealed that six out of every ten employees surveyed stole company data upon leaving their job in the last year.
24 February 2009 Obama orders review of cyber security following FAA hack President Obama has requested a 60-day review of the ‘plans, programmes and activities’ in place to combat hacking in federal computer systems, following the recent breach at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) when 48 file systems were accessed.
20 February 2009 First arrests in Heartland Payment Systems data breach The first arrests in connection with the recently disclosed breach at Heartland Payment Systems have been made in Florida.
16 February 2009 UK government agencies changing approach to data security Amidst all the reports of data breaches and intrusions in recent months comes a spot of good news, namely that a report from BeCrypt claims to show that UK government agencies are adopting a positive attitude to data security.
11 February 2009 Adobe/Forrester research reveals web 2.0 not so pervasive A major European study commissioned by Adobe and carried out by Forrester Research shows that `knowledge workers' within European organisations are far less keen on collaborating with each other using Web 2.0 and other advanced internet technologies than was previously thought.
10 February 2009 PGP research highlights crippling data breach losses Research just released by crypto specialist PGP Corporation claims to show that the average cost of a data breach soared by 28% during 2008, with typical costs weighing in at an astonishing £1.7 million per incident.
05 February 2009 Ukrainian ISP servers shut down UkrTeleGroup, an infamous internet service provider in the Ukraine, has had its primary IP connection "depeered" by FiberNet, the Miami-based uplink provider.
04 February 2009 Child protection database will be accessible to 390 000 staff. The controversial child protection database, to house the contact details for all under 18 year olds in England, is to be accessible to 390 000 staff, according to ministers.
30 January 2009 Obama Administration publishes agenda for cybersecurity The newly-appointed Obama administration has wasted no time in fulfilling one of its mainstay election promises by publishing an agenda for cybersecurity.
27 January 2009 Despite all the warnings, IT users still not using encryption Research just published by crypto specialist Steganos has revealed that - despite all the well-publicised data losses in the last few years - technology users have still not embraced encryption to protect their personal information.
27 January 2009 Monster slain by hackers Careers website Monster.com and USAjobs.gov, the careers site for the US federal government, have been targeted by hackers, who have harvested user information including IDs, passwords and addresses.
26 January 2009 Infosecurity magazine work with Tories on infosec policy The UK government should be demonstrating best practice when it comes to information security, said Eleanor Laing, MP, in a meeting with Infosecurity magazine on Monday 22nd January.
26 January 2009 Heartland card payment system breach bigger than TJX? Reports are coming in that a New Jersey-based payment processor's IT systems have been compromised in what experts are calling the biggest payment card data breach ever.
21 January 2009 It’s hammer-time for discarded computers says Which? Magazine Which? Computing magazine has encouraged the smashing of computer hard drives after buying eight second-hand hard drives from eBay and finding confidential information on each.
09 January 2009 Lumension survey predicts ITsec trends for 2009 End of year research commissioned by enterprise endpoint security specialist Lumension has found that outsourcing is likely to be a major IT security talking point in 2009.
12 December 2008 Infosecurity work with Tory MPs to develop data security working group Infosecurity magazine were honoured to receive an invitation from MPs Eleanor Laing and Nick Herbert to visit the Houses of Parliament this week, to discuss the Conservative party’s data security agenda.
13 November 2008 Information Security awards recognise honour excellence, leadership, and vision Executive Alliance, provider of premium leadership recognition forums worldwide, has announced the winners of the Information Security Executive (ISE) and Project of the Year United Kingdom and Ireland Awards for 2008.
24 October 2008 Top Secret Iraq and al-Qaeda documents left on train Top-secret documents, containing information on al-Qaeda and Iraq, were found on the seat of a commuter train, according to BBC news reports released today.
12 June 2008 Government meets with cynicism after revealing plans for ‘giant database’ The government faces sceptisicm after revealing plans to implement a huge database storing citizens’ phone and web records.
23 May 2008 ‘Highly confidential’ Home Office laptop sold on eBay Police are investigating a possible Home Office security breach after the discovery of an encrypted laptop containing a scrambled disc with the words ‘Home Office, highly confidential’ written on it. The laptop was found in a computer shop near Bolton, after a customer had taken it in for repair. The laptop was said to have been brought on eBay.
28 February 2008 Doctors encourage patients to opt-out after NHS data losses A letter for patients to use to opt-out of the English NHS’s nascent central database of medical records, written by doctors and medical privacy campaigners, has reached more than 200 000 downloads. Meanwhile, nine NHS trusts have admitted data breaches, in the wake of HM Revenue and Customs’ loss of 25 million people’s data.
04 January 2008 Big phish-hunters make small tank vulnerable PhishTank, a mass-participation website used to track phishing sites, is susceptible to voting fraud by criminals, according to researchers at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory.
21 December 2007 UK government loses data on 25m Britons The UK government has lost personal data on every child in the country, as well as national insurance numbers and bank account details of parents and carers claiming child benefit, on two password-protected CDs sent through an internal mail service.
20 November 2007 Infosec ignorance is a barrier to security in America's Cup This year, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan as they challenged the Swiss defender Alinghi, in the 32nd America’s Cup.
25 June 2007 Renault Formula 1 deploy IRM to protect car designs At the British Grand Prix in 2006, over four gigabytes of data was created over the weekend, including 150 documents containing car designs, technical specifications and other important testing and race data. Under pressure to keep their sensitive information secure, the Renault Formula 1 team chose Oracle content management (formerly Stellent) to manage, share and secure critical documents and information across the organisation, remotely and trackside.
20 June 2007 Lloyds TSB turns fraud-detection software on staff Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
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