It looks as though the smart energy meters that energy companies in the UK and US are committed to installing in the years ahead will be WiFi-enabled, as the ZigBee Alliance and the WiFi Alliance are linking up. 18 March 2010
Trusteer, the internet authentication, encryption and security specialist, has taken the wraps off a real-time malware analysis and remediation technology for banks and other financial institutions. 16 March 2010
Whilst the industry seems transfixed by a tablet computer that does not currently appear to multitask, Apple Computer is also up other things than selling iPads, releasing a major update to its Safari web browser. 16 March 2010
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
The steady stream of vulnerabilities discovered in Internet Explorer has continued with the revelation that a zero-day issue with IE 6.x and 7.0 allows a trojan that can steal personal and sensitive data to sneak on to a user's PC. 15 March 2010
Research just published claims to show that usage of Twitter, the social networking site, is taking off into the mainstream, but that large numbers of users are not using the service for the purpose it was originally designed for. 11 March 2010
The tricky task of password management strategies has been reviewed and discussed in a successful webinar with analyst Nigel Stanley and password specialist Stuart Harrison of Quest Software. 10 March 2010
CIFAS, the UK's fraud prevention service, has reported a surge of almost a third in identify theft fraud during 2009, something that it says points to collusion between criminal gangs and staff working inside financial services companies. 09 March 2010
A new VBScript vulnerability that is apparently being exploited by hackers in the wild has caused Microsoft to warn Windows XP users to avoid hitting the F1 function key if requested to by a website. 08 March 2010
Hard on the heels of announcing a free website infection scanning service, Qualys has teamed up with fellow IT security vendor Imperva to integrate some of their respective software offerings. 03 March 2010
In his keynote at RSA 2010, San Francisco, RSA President Art Coviello spoke of the industry’s latest and greatest challenge: securing cloud computing. 02 March 2010
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
Check Point Software Technologies has taken the wraps off a secure USB drive system. Known as Abra, the unit is designed to offer PC or Windows-based terminal users a secure virtualised workspace that is highly portable between machines. 02 March 2010
According to the Veracode ‘State of Software Security’ report, between 58 and 88 percent of all applications submitted to Veracode for verification did not achieve an acceptable security score upon first submission. The exact percentage depends on the standard applied, based on application criticality. 02 March 2010
HSBC has joined Santander, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest in offering online banking customers free copies of Trusteer's Rapport password protection software. 24 February 2010
A consortium of more than 30 major customers of software vendors have called for more secure development of their applications, and for the developers to adhere to best practice at the earliest opportunity. 23 February 2010
Hard on the heels of problems with Adobe's security update strategies identified this week, it now seems that the installation software used by Adobe for its Reader and Flash applications has a security flaw. 19 February 2010
Recruitment consultancy specialist, Barclay Simpson, has revealed that the Information Security market is growing. 19 February 2010
Microsoft is set to takeover Yahoo!’s internet search and search advertising businesses after the deal was given the green-light by US and European competition committees. 19 February 2010
Adobe has issued a security bulletin warning users of its PDF and Acrobat applications against two widely publicised vulnerabilities but, in the haste to get the relevant patches out of the door earlier this week, one of the two URLs in the update was incorrect. 18 February 2010
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
Security solution developer, Cloudmark, has announced it has entered an agreement to takeover message processing platform developers, Bizanga. 17 February 2010
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
The latest 3GS iPhone is a valuable piece of kit and, as you might expect, a number get stolen every day, but Ian Kellett of Cumbria managed to harness his iPhone's global positioning system (GPS) when his handset went missing one Saturday last month. 12 February 2010
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
Panda Security held its second annual security blogger summit in Madrid last week, at which more than 200 security professionals attended. Discussion highlights of the event included internet mafias, the risks they pose to both consumers and businesses, and how law enforcement should be involved to stop cybercriminals from acting with impunity. 10 February 2010
A start-up firm has come up with an interesting virtual/cloud data storage service that links a VMware virtualised server environment with cloud-based services such as Amazon S3 (simple storage service), adding in encryption to the mix to boost security levels. 09 February 2010
3ami has announced that Lancashire Constabulary is using its Monitoring and Audit System (MAS) software to comply with new data security regulations from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). 09 February 2010
Trend Micro has set up a new company – TCloud Computing – to develop a cloud operating system for release in the second quarter of this year 08 February 2010
Internet security firm, Lumension, is warning IT departments to prepare for Microsoft’s heavy patching activity this month. 05 February 2010
Intel has finally unveiled its long-awaited update to the vPro processor platform, adding a variety of security and advanced management services for company PC users. 05 February 2010
PGP Corporation, the encryption specialist, has diversified into the world of digital certification, thanks to the acquisition of TC TrustCenter, the digital certification authority, for an undisclosed sum. 02 February 2010
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
Earlier reports that Microsoft knew about the critical Internet Explorer security flaws that forced it to release an out-of-band patch last Thursday evening have been confirmed - by Microsoft. 26 January 2010
Social networking service Twitter has temporarily disabled a Flash widget on its site after a Florida-based IT security researcher revealed the widget was subject to a widely known vulnerability in Adobe's Flash programming language. 25 January 2010
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
IT security vendor BitDefender claims to have discovered separate, critical zero-day exploits in two of the most heavily used applications in the world: Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader. 19 January 2010
A complex attack on the Google Gmail accounts of human rights activitists – apparently from hackers based in China – has now been indirectly blamed on Microsoft, after McAfee Labs announced last night that the attacks appear to exploit a little-known vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. 15 January 2010
After several years of vendors offering IT security applications for so-called mobile smartphones, it seems that the market's adoption of this technology is about to take off in the year ahead. 11 January 2010
A politically-motivated hacker has apparently developed a multi-thread, thin-client denial of service attack application that effectively allows him to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on a website from a single linux server. 11 January 2010
Analysis published by Symantec claims to show that South Africa is set to become a cybercrime hub during the coming year, largely due to the introduction of new broadband internet capacity. 05 January 2010
Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and penetration tester with Israel's Avnet, claims to have discovered a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities with Twitter, the popular social networking portal. 05 January 2010
It's a new year, so time for those resolutions and, says Which? Magazine, it's also time for a few security resolutions for your computer. 04 January 2010
McAfee's AvertLabs' annual research predicts that the Google Chrome `on-net' operating system will be targeted by hackers when it is released in the New Year. 30 December 2009
In a move that will surprise its reseller channel, Sun Microsystems has unveiled a portfolio of open source applications for its clients that are looking for secure cloud computing options. 29 December 2009
Cisco has warned users of new vulnerabilities in its Webex conferencing system, the firm which it acquired in March 2007. 21 December 2009
The IT industry's increased reliance on cloud computing will result in new types of security threats, says Trend Micro in its just-released 2010 predictions report. 18 December 2009
AppGate and Signify have announced they are able to offer clients unified secure access to protected information with strong, cloud-based, two-factor authentication. 17 December 2009
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
File-sharing could be the big cyberthreat in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab’s 2010 Cyberthreat Forecast. 16 December 2009
Symantec Security Response has issued a warning about a possible wild zero-day security vulnerability in Adobe's Acrobat and Reader software. 15 December 2009
Just when the UK banks have started issuing two-factor authentication devices to a growing number of account holders, a report from the Gartner group claims to show that fraudsters have started to raid user accounts by beating the same technology. 14 December 2009
A subscriber to the Amazon pay-as-you-use EC2 cloud computing has had their website hacked, and a command and control (C&C) system installed for the Zeus botnet, which continues to be a problem for PC users, despite the worm being almost two and a half years old. 11 December 2009
With interest in cloud computing taking off, especially now that Microsoft is about to formally open its Azure cloud service on 1 January, the EMEA director of (ISC)2, the not-for-profit IT security education and certification body, has warned about the dangers of the technology 11 December 2009
Microsoft and Adobe both had a busy day on Tuesday, releasing multiple security updates to address various product vulnerabilities. 10 December 2009
Cisco has released its annual information security report for 2009 and the year-end analysis makes for some interesting reading, not least because it highlights the impact of social media on network security and the critical role that people - not technology - play in creating opportunities for cybercriminals. 10 December 2009
After several months of testing with a few clients, Fortify has rolled out a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its application vulnerability technology, Fortify 360. 10 December 2009
Adobe has been hit by a number of security flaws on its software this year, with most of the flaws being reported by third-party organisations - after, of course, they have notified the software vendor of the problem. 07 December 2009
A report from Forrester Research claims to show that concerns over the security of cloud computing are preventing many companies from considering the adoption of the technology. 04 December 2009
After several days of investigations regarding allegations that Microsoft security patches and updates had caused a `black screen of death' under Windows 7 and earlier editions of the operating system, Microsoft says its updates are not to blame. 03 December 2009
Tufin Technologies, the security management specialist, is advising companies to beef up their IT security defences - and in particular, their firewall - in good time for the Christmas and New Year holidays. 02 December 2009
After several weeks of rumour, IBM is reported to be acquiring Guardium, the enterprise database security specialist, for $225 million. 01 December 2009
Reports are coming in that a set of security patches for Windows XP, Vista and 7 may be causing problems for large numbers of PC users. 01 December 2009
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
Launchpad Europe, the IT vendor marketing company, claims its latest survey shows that security plays an important role as to whether organisations will choose to adopt cloud technologies. 25 November 2009
Corsaire, the international security consultancy, claims to have identified a potentially serious flaw with most popular web browsers. 25 November 2009
Research just released by digital certificate specialist Verisign claims to show that, whilst UK online shopping is expected to rise significantly this Christmas, worries about security will hold many shoppers back from making most of their purchases online. 25 November 2009
Check Point Software Technologies has announced plans to add information security controls for over 50 000 web 2.0 widgets and more than 4500 internet applications, following the just-announced acquisition of FaceTime's application classification and signature database. 24 November 2009
Bit9, which operates in the enterprise application whitelist information security space, has unveiled a free software auditing application for the enterprise. 24 November 2009
Hard on the heels of an apparent `proof of concept' worm for the Apple iPhone that loaded a picture of Rick Astley onto users' mobile phones, a new and more serious virus has appeared. 23 November 2009
The first cracked copies of Windows 7 are now on retail sale in Asia, as well as via download websites also apparently located in the region. 19 November 2009
PandaLabs, the malware labs division of Panda Security, has encountered a fake Facebook page designed to steal passwords from users of the social networking portal. 17 November 2009
Four and half years after it moved into the appliance mail filtering business, Clearswift has hopped on to the rapid-accelerating bandwagom that is cloud computing security. 12 November 2009
According to Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Group, software development and secure cloud environments are all about best practice. 12 November 2009
Understanding what goes on at the various secret service divisions such as MI5 and MI6, as well as GCHQ, has been helped with the news that Qosmos, a network intelligence specialist, will unveil an LI (lawful interception) edition of its ixMachine at Milipol in Paris next week. 11 November 2009
Trend Micro has uncovered that the Koobface botnet is now abusing Google Reader, the web-based data aggregation service, routing internet users to infected websites via seemingly innocent Youtube videos. 10 November 2009
It's taken a while, but the first real iPhone worm has appeared, although its payload appears to be relatively benign - unless that is, you dislike Rick Astley, the 1980s pop star from Newton le-Willows in Lancashire. 09 November 2009
TCL Crowdsourcing - the sponsors of the increasingly popular `Zappers' events, which see teams of software testers to gather and complete to find the most bugs in a chosen piece of software - has announced its next competition will take place in Leeds on 12 November. 06 November 2009
Clearswift, the web and email security appliance specialist, has discussed modern IT security threats with Infosecurity. 06 November 2009
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
A blog report from IT security vendor Sophos concludes that Windows 7, the newly-released Microsoft operating system, is vulnerable to 80% of viruses. 05 November 2009
Cisco, EMC - the parent company to RSA Security - and VMware have formed the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration designed to boost the adoption of virtualisation in the cloud. 04 November 2009
AVG Technologies has released AVG Internet Security Business Edition 9.0 and AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition 9.0. 30 October 2009
Cisco Systems has announced plans to acquire ScanSafe, the privately held security software company for around US$183 million. 28 October 2009
Trend Micro will next month take the wraps off an updated version of its Deep Security software that is billed as spanning the physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. 27 October 2009
The WiFi Alliance is putting the finishing touches to a peer-to-peer version of its popular WiFi standards. Known as WiFi Direct, the proposed standard allows WiFI devices to link directly to each other, without the need for a router or access point, something which poses a potentially serious security threat to companies with WiFi networks, according to Fortify. 22 October 2009
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 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
Last night saw Stephen Howes, the CEO of Gridsure, the pictorial authentication security specialists, talk to an ISACA meeting in Leeds, where he spoke about the perils of phishing and social engineering, which he defined as "the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information they would not normally release." 20 October 2009
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
Symantec has released software that allows companies to create file-based cloud storage infrastructures capable of eventually distributing up to 50 petabytes (50 000 terabytes) of data from a single domain name. 15 October 2009
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 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
To help computer users on Tuesday of this week - which is Microsoft Patch Tuesday - Check Point Software Technologies will be offering a free and fully functional version of ZoneAlarm Pro 2010, a security suite that normal sells for around £30. 12 October 2009
Trend Micro has launched a range of security threat management services that provide enterprises with what the company calls "a network security overwatch". 12 October 2009
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
Automation should be the main focus of enterprise IT departments if they want to discover their network security vulnerabilities, said experts at the recent Security Risk & Compliance Forum, held in London at the Royal Exchange Theatre 08 October 2009
Gerry Gebel, vice president at the Burton Group took the audience at ISSE 2009 in The Hague on 6 October 2009 through the ups and downs of cloud computing exploring pitfalls and benefits. 07 October 2009
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
Just as social networks such as Facebook are seeing advertisement targeted depending on users’ settings and geographical location, so could malware and other threats be targeted specifically, said Stefan Tanase, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, Romania, at the ISSE 2009 conference on 7 October. 07 October 2009
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
FaceTime Communications has upgraded its Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance to v3.0 firmware, adding content control security for blogs, wikis, webmail and social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to the mix. 02 October 2009
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
McAfee is linking up with Adobe to jointly develop security software for their customers. 29 September 2009
A group of IT security companies are hosting Launchpad Europe - a security summit / showcase taking place in London on 13 October - and are conducting an online research poll in preparation. 29 September 2009
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
DeviceLock, the endpoint security specialist, has announced that the Gazpromneft-Khantos branch of Gazprom Neft, the high-profile Russian oil company, has selected its software for endpoint security. 25 September 2009
Websense Security Labs has found a spam operation targeting players of the old game favourite, Monopoly, via social networking methods. 24 September 2009
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 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
Yahoo has warned users of its Yahoo Mail service about a two-year-old security flaw that appears to allow hackers to gain access to their accounts via a back door. 21 September 2009
Thales has announced that its Datacryptor high-speed SONET/SDH and Ethernet Layer 2 hardware-based network encryptors have received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 3 certification. 21 September 2009
Cloud computing service providers have yet to address enterprise concerns around data security, according to CA and Symantec. 21 September 2009
NetBenefit, the managed hosting provider, has taken the wraps off Ultra-V, a high availability virtualisation platform that sits behind a firewall security layer and supports virtual environments ranging from single servers to complete virtual systems. 18 September 2009
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
Microsoft is releasing new tools to expose security vulnerabilities in new and updated software. 17 September 2009
In-depth research into botnets from Trend Micro has found that industry estimates that compromised machines are compromised for an average of around six weeks, is significantly less than the reality. 17 September 2009
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 are prioritising unimportant security fixes while leaving their IT systems open to sophisticated hacking attacks, a major study released today reveals. 16 September 2009
Nokia has taken a pro-active stance towards the white hat hackers and code crackers that are developing add-ins and - sometimes - wholesale replacements for the firmware of the latest generation of smartphones. 15 September 2009
Apple has come in for criticism on user forums for a new anti-fraud and anti-phishing warning system seen in its Safari Mobile web browser for the iPhone. Forum users report that the feature - seen in v3.1 of the iPhone's operating system - is less than consistent. 14 September 2009
Gemalto, the French digital security firm, has acquired Trusted Logic, a provider of security software for mobile devices. 14 September 2009
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An Edinburgh-based company has developed a relatively low-cost security tag that alerts users when a linked mobile phone moves more than 25 metres away. The Bluetooth-enabled keyring tab - known as Nio - comes with its own USB-rechargeable battery and sells for around £40. 11 September 2009
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
A row is developing between Sentrigo, a database security specialist, and Microsoft, over the security of Microsoft's SQL Server software. 10 September 2009
After four years in gestation, the Home Gateway (HG) - an intelligent broadband/networking interface device designed to act as a hub for homes and small offices - is reaching fruition. 10 September 2009
Stonebranch has unveiled Scribbos, a secure business file transfer service that operates on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis on the internet. 09 September 2009
The total number of web applications with at least one high risk security issue has reached 27%, an increase of 10%, according to IT security testing, auditing and consultancy company NTA Monitor. 09 September 2009
Skype, the internet telephony and instant messaging service currently being sold off by parent company eBay, has moved swiftly to meet the well-publicised security threat of the Peskyspy trojan, which reportedly allows hackers to remotely monitor and record Skype voice calls. 07 September 2009
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
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
Desktop PCs are expensive. They need upgrading every few years and require constant patching and IT management to ensure they remain secure and function correctly. 03 September 2009
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
Whilst Web 2.0-driven websites and services have made the mobile internet almost as popular as the desktop web, the technology is an information security manager's nightmare, with code extensibility, IP interactions and website flexibility driving a steamroller through traditional information security systems. So what are IT managers to do? 01 September 2009
Windows XP single sign-on applications will fail on Windows 7, businesses were warned today. 28 August 2009
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
Symantec has published the first set of results from the Norton Safe Web system - a database of potentially bad websites compiled anonymously by the 20 million-plus users of its IT security software. 21 August 2009
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 - 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
Reports are coming in from Australia that two ISPs - aaNet and EFTel - having been subjected to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack for the last two weeks, are taking action. The attacks have resulted in many users of the ISPs being restricted in their access to the internet. 20 August 2009
Reports are emerging that IT security software from Computer Associates and Kaspersky Lab have registered false positives on legitimate files and websites. 18 August 2009
A Microsoft report just released concludes that Internet Explorer 8 is the world's most secure web browser. 18 August 2009
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
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
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
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
Applications on the Apple iTunes website are arguably what makes the iPhone so popular in mobile phone circles, but a growing number of users are unlocking (jailbreaking) their iPhones, for the simple reason that it opens up the mobile to third-party applications. This means the iPod and iPhone could be used for hacking. 12 August 2009
As many readers of Infosecurity may have noticed, Web 2.0-driven social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become attractive targets for phishing and scamming attacks as online criminals follow the latest internet trends that are attracting the most users. 12 August 2009
Microsoft has issued a security note about a flaw in Windows ASP.NET that it says could allow a DDOS security situation. 12 August 2009
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
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
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, 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
The hacker attack on Twitter on Thursday afternoon UK time - which appears to have also spilled over to the Facebook social networking site - is now thought to have been the work of political activists who wanted to stop a pro-Georgian blogger - Cyxymu - from making his/her postings on the sites. 10 August 2009
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
Kaspersky Lab has announced plans to host an international student cybercrime conference at the University of East London on 21-22 November. The Russian-headquartered IT security vendor is inviting papers for presentation at the event. 07 August 2009
Research just released by Virus Bulletin in its August issue claims to show that 12 out of the top 35 IT security vendors are failing to protect users of Microsoft's Windows Vista. 06 August 2009
A study just released by ABI Research predicts a period of healthy growth for managed wireless security solutions, with growth averaging 27% a year for the period 2008 to 2014. 06 August 2009
The PR offensive by Karen Todner, Gary McKinnon's lawyer, has escalated this week, following the decision by the High Court to allow the extradition of the so-called `UFO hacker' to the US. 06 August 2009
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
Programmers with the Mozilla Foundation have moved rapidly to patch one of the two SSL security flaws in web browsers, such as Firefox, identified by researchers at the Black Hat security briefings in Las Vegas late last week. 05 August 2009
Twitter has quietly started checking URLs entered into tweets (user messages) on its microblogging service and immediately flown into a barrage of criticism about its checking methodology. 05 August 2009
Researchers have been busy over the last few days tracing where the Zeus botnet is being controlled from, following investigations by the University of Alabama in the US, which tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the internet. 04 August 2009
It now seems that the hacking of the servers of the SquirrelMail open-source email project in late June may have been worse than originally reported. 04 August 2009
Team Elite, a `grey hat' hacker group blamed for revealing a potential hack on MI5's website last week, is reportedly very angry at reports in the national press that it was responsible for what some papers are reporting as a site hack attack. 03 August 2009
A potentially serious iPhone security flaw identified by researchers at the Black Hat security briefings in Las Vegas last week has been quickly patched by Apple Computer. 03 August 2009
Clever hackers are exploiting a number of loopholes in US credit reporting systems to substantially improve their credit rating and so gain access to zero percent loans and low-cost credit cards, an information security researcher said over the weekend. 03 August 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
Researchers at the Black Hat security briefings in Las Vegas this week revealed a number of flaws that affect the secure sockets layer (SSL) system for secure internet web browsing. 31 July 2009
Cybercrime is at the top of the Information Security Forum's (ISF) Threat Horizon list for 2011, which highlights the growth of `crimeware as a service' offered by criminal gangs, along with infiltration into organisations to carry out insider attacks. 31 July 2009
McAfee has continued its cloud computing strategy with the acquisition of privately-owned MX Logic, a US provider of cloud-based email, web security and email archiving services. 31 July 2009
Should vendors include programme code from third parties, is the question experts are asking, now that Adobe has acknowledged that it used Microsoft's allegedly flawed development code in its products. 30 July 2009
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
Research just released by MX Logic suggests that spam as a percentage of overall email has reached its highest point ever, currently accounting for 94.6% of all email. 30 July 2009
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
Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates. 29 July 2009
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs. 29 July 2009
Jonathan Zdziarski, a data forensics specialist, has come up with a novel way of explaining iPhone security flaws by posting how-to videos on the YouTube video portal. 28 July 2009
The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime - a two-day security conference - opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success. 28 July 2009
RSA, the security division of EMC, has unveiled SecurID Software Token for iPhone Devices which it claims allows the Apple cellular handset to be used an RSA SecurID authenticator. 28 July 2009
Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue - and possibly even card details - from unsuspecting web users. 27 July 2009
Cloud computing, along with the growing number of web 2.0-enabled sites and services many of us now access on a regular basis, is changing the face of IT security. 27 July 2009
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
Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player 24 July 2009
Cambridge academics have revealed that social networks that promote their security controls are likely to deter users from joining, and as a result privacy guidelines are inaccessible. 24 July 2009
If you ever wondered how to start Windows XP without a password and without going down to source code level, wonder no more, as Butterscotch's content producer Stacey Reed has posted an informative video tutorial showing how it's done. 23 July 2009
California's TriCipher has announced plans to unveil its myOneLogin authentication and identification technology on day three of the Cloud SSO event in San Diego on July 29th. 23 July 2009
Panda Software has confirmed its Cloud AntiVirus software will be launched in the second quarter of next year. And the good news for Cloud Computing users is that it is now available in beta test and is free to all users. 22 July 2009
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
Information security vendor Kaspersky Lab has joined the ranks of Symantec - whose yellow-cased IT security applications are sold by Currys, PC World and other retail vendors of computers - thanks to a deal with the Comet chain of stores. 21 July 2009
IT security administrators will have to deal with more than 10 security patches from Oracle and nine from Microsoft this week. 16 July 2009
The reputation of Mozilla's popular Firefox web browsing software - now into version 3.5 - took a battering this week as the Secunia security research advisory team revealed a flaw in the way the browser handles Javascript calls. 15 July 2009
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
Check Point Software Technologies has released a new suite of end point software - R72 - to its range of software-based security offerings. 14 July 2009
Most mid to large European companies plan to consolidate network security on a single hardware appliance in the next year, a survey has revealed. 14 July 2009
As Google announced the future launch of its Google Chrome operating system (OS) based on an open source Linux kernel, it also claimed that “users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work”, but is that possible? 13 July 2009
A signature update for McAfee's security software, released late last week, has been causing problems for Windows users around the world and particularly for users of O2's mobile broadband service, Infosecurity can reveal. 07 July 2009
Anywhere and anytime working is a Godsend for most business people, but it's also a potential technical nightmare for IT security managers in major enterprises. 07 July 2009
Microsoft has taken the unusual step of warning about a potentially serious security flaw on Internet Explorer that has not yet been patched. 07 July 2009
UK telecoms giant BT has secured a prestigious deal to provide officers and staff at London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with new identity and access management services 06 July 2009
If you thought appliance-based IT security was old hat, Infosecurity has some news for you - we have an entertaining webinar coming up on July 07 that will detail the benefits that this revitalised technology can now bring to the table. 02 July 2009
Twitter has again hit the IT security headlines, this time over the increasing widespread practice of automated retweets - automated repostings - by users of the social networking site/service. 25 June 2009
As reported previously by Infosecurity, Microsoft has started beta testing of its free anti-virus software, but only to people based in the US, China and Israel. 24 June 2009
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
Reports are circulating that Microsoft is planning to beta test its Morro/Security Essentials software as early as this week. 22 June 2009
Companies are embracing new web and mobile technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation, social networking and mobile communication at a faster rate than their information security strategies are updated. 17 June 2009
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
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
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 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
As part of its Web2.0@Work™ global research project, security specialist Websense Security Labs has found that many organisations in the UK are ill equipped to protect themselves from Web 2.0 threats. 10 June 2009
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
Seventy three percent of IT professionals admit their software applications are vulnerable to hackers in a survey conducted by application security specialists Fortify Software at this year’s Infosecurity Europe in London. 08 June 2009
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
Users of Office 2000 should start preparing for Microsoft’s withdrawal of its security update service for Office 2000 from 14 July this year, warns California-based security software provider Fortify Software. 03 June 2009
Microsoft has warned about hackers starting to use DirectX-enabled files to give them remote access to users' PCs across the internet. 01 June 2009
Technology start-up 3Ami has enhanced its Monitoring and Audit Security (MAS) software to support USB and similar memory sticks. 01 June 2009
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released two reports on how and if Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) could improve the resilience of communication networks. 01 June 2009
Panda Security has uploaded the first beta test of its next-generation IT security suite, Global Protection 2010, to its website. 27 May 2009
Hard on the heels of unveiling Cloud Cube, its four-dimensional best practice model for cloud computing security in April, security industry association the Jericho Forum has linked with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit vendor group. 27 May 2009
After a number of security problems with its software that required patching, Adobe has apparently decided it is time for regular security updates. 26 May 2009
A succession of errors - at the programme code development level and human error when inputting the data - are reported to have resulted in a New Zealand couple being credited with NZ$10 million (£3.9 million) rather than a much smaller sum as the proceeds of a bank credit line. 21 May 2009
McAfee will acquire Solidcore Systems, a whitelisting specialist, in a US$33m deal which will allow McAfee to integrate Solidcore's technology into its blacklisting malware detection and prevention products, as well as to bolster its high-end corporate IT security offerings. 20 May 2009
Phil Zimmerman, the founder of PGP - and inventor of the Pretty Good Privacy technology after which the firm is named - will be speaking about voice over internet protocol (VOIP) security at the ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa next week. 20 May 2009
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
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
With the economic downturn, cloud computing is seen as a way to improve operational efficiency, reduce headcounts and help with the bottom line, but according to the report from Massachusetts-based Forrester Research on cloud computing, organisations should not jump on the ‘cloud wagon’ before considering security and privacy concerns. 12 May 2009
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
Web 2.0-driven websites are now a premier target for hackers, amounting to 21% of all reported hacking incidents, according to an IT security report from the Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum. 08 May 2009
Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security. 07 May 2009
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
The guys on the Blackberry stand at the Infosecurity Europe show weren't willing to talk specifically about it, but it looks like the White House has taken delivery of a custom Blackberry smartphone for President Obama. 28 April 2009
You might not think it, but junior's Playstation Portal (PSP) and Playstation 3 games consoles are capable of compromising the security of a home (and office) IT network resources. 27 April 2009
Tufin Technologies has announced a policy and security network API (application programming interface) initiative and has enlisted the support of several IT security vendors for the program. 23 April 2009
Predictions made by Professor Peter Sommer, a leading IT forensics specialist, in a Check Point-sponsored Infosecurity webinar earlier this week, have become reality with the release of a report at a conference in Prague. 23 April 2009
AVG, the producers of one of the most popular free anti-virus applications, is now offering a free URL checking utility. 21 April 2009
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
It's been a complicated take-over, apparently, but Check Point Software Technologies has at last completed the acquisition of Nokia's security appliances business which was announced last year. 15 April 2009
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
Email and web security vendor Marshal8e6 has acquired Avinti, a behavioural analysis specialist, for an undisclosed sum. 15 April 2009
Infosecurity magazine are now on Twitter. Please ‘follow’ us to receive our latest news, views and industry comments. 08 April 2009
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
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
The security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google's online word processing service - Google Docs - may have shared their data with unauthorised users. 10 March 2009
Bob Tarzey, service director with Quocirca, the business research analysis firm and a regular contributor to Infosecurity's Webinar series, has written a feature on the issues relating to content security and how they relate to the modern world of mass storage. 04 March 2009
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
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
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
The annual report from IBM's X-Force security operation shows what many IT managers have suspected for some time, namely that Web application vulnerabilities represent the major risk for most organisations. 03 February 2009
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
Research just released by Panda Security claims that just 8.6 per cent of email that reached companies last year was non-malicious. 30 January 2009
If you've had a high company phone bill recently, spare a thought for Martin & Hillyer, a law firm in Burlington, Ontario. 29 January 2009
Finnish IT security vendor F-Secure reports that a worm that exploits a months-old Windows flaw has infected more than 1.1 million PCs in space of 24 hours. 16 January 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
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
The government faces sceptisicm after revealing plans to implement a huge database storing citizens’ phone and web records. 23 May 2008
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
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