If you're a follower of government cybersecurity matters you may have heard that the UK government's Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) was due to open about now. 12 March 2010
Active network forensics company Solera Networks announced its partnership with EMC at RSA Conference 2010 on March 2 in San Francisco. 03 March 2010
A report just issued says that 40% of organisations are increasing their security budgets this year, with 60% of businesses having moved, or are planning to move, their IT systems into the cloud. 23 February 2010
Recruitment consultancy specialist, Barclay Simpson, has revealed that the Information Security market is growing. 19 February 2010
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
Information technology research and advisory company, Gartner, has named Komercní banka as the winner of its Business Intelligence Excellence Award, in Europe, Middle East and Africa. 09 February 2010
Internet security firm, Lumension, is warning IT departments to prepare for Microsoft’s heavy patching activity this month. 05 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
Just as the switch to the new millennium caused havoc with computer systems a decade ago, the switch to the new decade has caused technology problems once again. 07 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
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
Many small businesses in the UK are not ready for the current snow fall, according to remote access provider LogMeIn of Massachusetts, USA. 18 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
The House of Lords has heard evidence from a number of high-ranking IT experts about the risk of cyberattacks to the IT and communications infrastructure of the UK, and what might happen if a natural disaster interrupts the internet in a major way. 10 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
A new online backup service - Livedrive - is billed as offering home and small business PC users an always-on backup service that constantly backs up data from the local drive to the cloud, as each file is updated or newly saved. 26 November 2009
Research just published by Frost & Sullivan claims to show that the security credential convergence market is being driven by the use of smart cards for both physical and logical access, video content analysis for the automation of emergency procedures, and by the integration of building management systems with security systems. 26 November 2009
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
David Guyatt, one of the co-founders of MIMEsweeper, the IT security company acquired by Baltimore Technologies and later, Clearswift, has a new IT security company, Osirium. 17 November 2009
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last mile' delivery infrastructure. 30 October 2009
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
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
Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October. 23 October 2009
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October. 23 October 2009
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
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
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
Research just released by Loughborough University and on365, the data centre management specialist, claims to show that data centre managers lack any real understanding of their IT infrastructure energy costs and demands they are placing on it. 13 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
An active security community is needed to meet the challenges of information security, said Steve Purser, head of technical competency department, ENISA. 06 October 2009
Hard on the heels of widespread reports about smart energy meters and their grids being vulnerable to hacker attacks, HP has launched a security audit for smart grid services. 05 October 2009
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
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
The Muscat chapter of the Information Systems Audit, Control Association (ISACA) held an education seminar on information security earlier this month at the College of Banking and Financial Studies in Oman. 28 September 2009
Information security budgets have always been difficult to justify, and the global economic crisis is making this even more difficult, according to Gartner, which has identified four risk management mistakes that could threaten IT security budgest. 23 September 2009
Despite global government protectionist policies, the US remains the world’s best environment for competitive IT producers, says the Economist Intelligence Unit. 22 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
Infosecurity Magazine’s Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 is only a week away – sign up now! 14 September 2009
Security software budgets are expected to grow 4% in 2010, and security services budgets could grow almost 3%, according to Gartner. 11 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
With the recent scares about the swine flu, more and more businesses feel the need to plan for a pandemic, but are their security and IT up to the challenge? 04 September 2009
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
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
Twitter, the social microblogging website hit by a politically-motivated major distributed denial of service (DDOS) a week ago, is continuing to be hit be a wave of copycat attacks. 17 August 2009
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
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
Businesses across Europe, the Middle East and Africa have paid out £6 million this year to settle disputes with the Business Software Alliance. 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
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
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
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 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
Reports on the Australasian newswires say that Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has received an "official complaint" from its South Korean counterpart KrCERT, claiming the South Korean agency had never requested any help to investigate the attacks. 24 July 2009
Businesses need to check their contingency plans and improve home-working support systems as swine flu looks poised to reduce UK GDP by 3% this year. 21 July 2009
With the growing threat of swine flu, more and more employees are working from home, says Californian online security provider ScanSafe. 15 July 2009
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
South Korea - which has the largest number of DSL broadband connections per head of population in the world - is under a sustained internet attack 09 July 2009
Interoute, the internet backbone carrier, has released a free 'internet barometer' desktop application that displays the state of the global internet, as well as potential threats to the net's IP-based infrastructure. 29 June 2009
Launched as part of an update to the National Security Strategy, a newly-launched cybersecurity strategy - the UK's first - seeks to address the growing threat of cybercriminals to both the country and its citizens. 25 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
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
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
Information security risks, as a consequence of the London Underground strikes, include the transfer of documents to personal computers via USBs, emailing confidential company information to externally hosted email accounts, and exchanging data and information via online file sharing facilities or communication tools such as instant messenger. 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
Hiring managers are struggling to fill infosecurity positions due to a mismatch between salary expectations and skill levels, and current demand, information security education and certification organisation (ISC)2 has found it its latest jobs survey. 05 June 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
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
The importance of Estonia, one of the most Internet-connected and e-trading nations on earth, has ramped up a notch or two with the FBI, which has announced plans to station a cybercrime expert and his/her team in the country later this year. 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
The recent outbreak of swine flu has thrown up a number of topics related to information security ranging from secure sharing of data between health professionals, to spam / phishing and issues around remote working. 11 May 2009
Parabon Computation has launched a new service that simulates a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a company Web site. 06 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
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
Director of NSA, Lieutenant General Keith B Alexander, congratulated the information security industry on its excellent work in his keynote address to RSA conference attendees in San Francisco on 21 April 2009. 21 April 2009
The organisers of the main Black Hat security conference - which takes place at the Moevenpick City Centre hotel in Amsterdam's Piet Heinkade this Thursday and Friday - have announced that presenters will reveal no less than six high profile vulnerabilities at the event. 14 April 2009
Infosecurity magazine are now on Twitter. Please ‘follow’ us to receive our latest news, views and industry comments. 08 April 2009
After scanning around two million PCs, IBM's ISS security division says that around four percent of the PCs it scanned were infected by the Conficker worm. 03 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
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
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
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
Here's a lesson in IT contingency planning, courtesy of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway network company, whose IT systems - including station indicator boards, electronic ticketing, self-service counter tickets and Internet pages - all went off line on January 14 due to single UPS failing. 23 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
Users of IT security products should see no gaps in service resulting from floods in Britain, despite the location of several vendors in some of the worst-affected towns. 23 July 2007
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