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
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
In his keynote address at the RSA Conference 2010 in San Francisco, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, outlined how Microsoft will apply its end to end trust vision to cloud computing. 02 March 2010
Recruitment consultancy specialist, Barclay Simpson, has revealed that the Information Security market is growing. 19 February 2010
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
Life assistance company, CPP, has issued a warning to consumers over identity fraud. The company’s research reveals that less than half of UK consumers are concerned for the security of their personal bank accounts. The survey indicates that one third of people fear that their bank account is at risk of being hacked into. 04 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
The availability of high-speed internet connections and secure remote access technology appears to be allowing the UK's office workers to carry on their business from home, according to Signify, the two-factor authentication specialist. 11 January 2010
Online identity specialist Garlik has warned Facebook users to beware of a phishing scam on the popular social networking portal which offers users a `free' £25 iTunes gift voucher. 05 January 2010
With the Christmas and New Year holidays looming, Courion Corporation, the access governance and compliance specialist, has released `five golden rules' - a set of best-practice-based guidelines for companies looking to reduce the security risk posed by temporary workers. 21 December 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
Card Protection Plan (CPP), one of the longest-standing payment card loss insurance companies, has added Prevx' IT security software to its identity theft defence bundle. 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
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
Kaspersky Lab has taken the wraps off Password Manager, which the veteran IT security vendor describes as a robust and highly secure method of storing passwords on a PC. 11 December 2009
How easy is it to steal an identity on Facebook, the popular social networking portal? Very, as Sophos Asia-Pacific discovered recently when it carried out the Facebook equivalent of a honeypot hacker trap. 07 December 2009
Gridsure, the security specialist that has developed a highly secure pictorial authentication alternative to PIN / passwords, has received a major award in France. 04 December 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 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
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
Research just released by Kroll Ontrack claims to show that UK and US companies are failing to get to grips with their electronic document and data retention policies. 23 October 2009
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institutions. 22 October 2009
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
At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled ‘Governments face up to the cyber security challenge’, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication “not worth anything anymore”. 21 October 2009
The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week's RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland. 21 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
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
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) is looking for a supplier of portable readers capable of reading identity cards, passports, bank and credit cards, as well as fingerprints and facial and/or iris recognition. 19 October 2009
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
TeleTrusT, the German IT security association, awarded the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 to the Spanish Savings Banks Organisation (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros, CECA) for its e-signing project at ISSE 2009 last week in The Hague. 14 October 2009
This week is National Identity Fraud Prevention Week, and IT Governance - which bills itself as the one-stop shop for compliance - has launched an online resource for small businesses and individuals, wanting to strengthen their IT security. 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
Identity and access management (IAM) investments should be increased rather than decreased due to the current economic climate, according to around three quarters of respondents to a survey presented at ISSE 2009 last week by KPMG IT Advisory and Everett in cooperation with eema and IIR. 13 October 2009
Hard on the heels of the unveiling of its new enterprise management services, Trend Micro's TrendLabs IT security research operation has revealed some interesting figures that show a dramatic rise in ID theft and associated malware infection rates. 13 October 2009
Smart cards can result in a 644% return on investment in an enterprise with 2000 employees, Philip Hoyer, senior architect at UK-based ActivIdentity, said at ISSE 2009 in The Hague. 08 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
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
Google Street View, the rapidly expanding interactive mapping service from Google which allows internet users to view images of a road or street that have been taken by a roving camera van, is potentially under fire from the Swiss data protection commission on the privacy and security front. 28 September 2009
After beta testing the service amongst a select number of its users since the start of the year, Paypal has rolled out a text message security check system for its electronic cash and payment service. 23 September 2009
Interpol, the international police agency, has announced that the EDAPS consortium has been chosen to design and produce the secure electronic passport. 23 September 2009
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
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
Fran Howarth, a principal analyst with Quocirca, the business and IT analysis research firm, has penned a report on strong authentication. 14 September 2009
Infosecurity Magazine’s Virtual Conference on Information Security 2009 is only a week away – sign up now! 14 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
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
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
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
Windows XP single sign-on applications will fail on Windows 7, businesses were warned today. 28 August 2009
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
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
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular BlackBerry email-enabled smartphone, has released a major update to its smart card reader for the BlackBerry range. 19 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
The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning. 06 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
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
Access assurance may be a complex area, but Stuart Hodkinson, UK general manager with Courion Corporation - along with Fran Howarth, a principal analyst with Quocirca - had more than a few answers in an educational and informative webinar this week. 30 July 2009
This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security training and education. 30 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
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
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
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
Researchers with Russian IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab say they detected 575 new variants of the Koobface worm during June. 13 July 2009
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
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
ID cards will no longer be compulsory, but anyone applying for a British passport will added to the national identity card database, the government disclosed yesterday. 01 July 2009
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
Check out BrookCourt's whitepaper on how the rise of identity and access management has revolutionised how the enterprise defines a key domain of IT risk control. 29 June 2009
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
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
The information commissioner has ordered the opening of confidential files on a wide range of high-risk IT projects, including the ID cards scheme, joined up police intelligence systems and the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). 22 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
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
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
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
The anonymity of cybercafe users in India is being severely curtailed, in a bid to stamp out illegal, fraudulent and terrorist usage of this popular method of gaining internet access. 08 June 2009
President Obama finally announced the results of Melissa Hathaway's 60-day cybersecurity review on Friday, and unveiled plans to hand pick a senior official responsible for cybersecurity policy. 01 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
A two-factor authentication system - complete with keypad and display - has been successfully integrated into a plastic payment card by Melbourne-based EMUE and is being trialled by MBNA in the UK 13 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
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
The UK Home Office has announced that Manchester City will see the first ID cards in the controversial £5bn UK national identity card scheme this year. 07 May 2009
Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, warned against the dangers of social networking at the talk ‘Social networking pirates: Batten down the hatches, Cap’n Jack is coming’ at Infosecurity Europe. 29 April 2009
GrIDsure, the pictorial-based authentication technology specialist, has launched an application for Microsoft's Intelligent Application Gateway. 28 April 2009
The Right Honourable David Blunkett, MP, the former Home Secretary, has eschewed his original support in the 1990s for national ID cards in favour of biometric passports. 28 April 2009
Politics aside, the recent hack of Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation Facebook page reveals a serious problem with the application used in the page’s creation, says application vulnerability specialist, Fortify Software. 27 April 2009
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco. 27 April 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
The operators of Paul McCartney's web site were caught with their electronic pants down this week after the portal was found to be serving up malware. 08 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 survey of commuters by data protection company, Credant Technologies, has reported that 80% of mobile phone users store information on their devices that could be used to steal their identities. 19 March 2009
The act of ATM Card skimming and shoulder surfing - used by criminals the world over to create cloned cards from users of bank cash machines - has entered a new dimension. 19 March 2009
Seasoned penetration testers and security experts will recall that L0phtCrack, a seriously heavy-duty password testing utility, was quietly withdrawn by Symantec in 2006, after the IT security vendor reportedly became worried about export regulations of the high-tech software from the United States. 03 March 2009
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
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
Movies have a funny habit of becoming reality and the 1992 hacker movie Sneakers, starring Robert Redford, is no exception. 04 February 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
'NASA hacker' Gary McKinnon has won permission from the High Court to apply for a judicial review against his extradition to the United States. 23 January 2009
Two-thirds of firms in the UK are reportedly unable to identify exactly what virtual resources are in active use on their IT systems, according to a study just released. 20 January 2009
At the time of writing, the NASA hacker Gary McKinnon, who reportedly perpetrated the biggest military hack on record, was awaiting a decision from the Crown Prosecution Service on whether a recent signed confession, along with his diagnosis with Asperger’s syndrome, would help him to avoid extradition to the US and a potential 70 year prison sentence. 16 January 2009
Amid the build-up to Christmas, a survey commissioned by VeriSign finds that 85 percent of online shoppers maintain that trust in a site is the most important issue when online shopping. 16 December 2008
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
Passwords are not enough to keep criminals out, Sanjay Bavisi, president of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (the EC-Council), told a session on 5 November at the CSI 2007 conference in Washington DC. 07 November 2007
New Zealand has rejected physical identity cards, central databases and data matching in creating its national identity scheme, one of the scheme’s architects told the RSA Europe conference in London on 24 October. 25 October 2007
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. 08 June 2007
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