IBM's X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk report claims to show an 11% fall in discovered vulnerabilities compared to 2008, including a decline in the largest categories, such as SQL injections and ActiveX. 17 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
Kaspersky Lab has reported a massive surge in activity surrounding Koobface, a highly prolific worm that infects social networking sites. 12 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
Confirming the outlook of NHS IT professionals at the Mobile and Wireless Healthcare conference in Birmingham late last month, a survey due to be published next week will show that health professionals are highly sceptical about migrating to the cloud, owing to serious security worries. 11 March 2010
IdentityFinder, the identity theft prevention company, are set to offer protection for social networking sites later this year. 10 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
Research released today by FaceTime Communications claims to show that IT professionals are underestimating the security risks associated with deployment of unified communications. 10 March 2010
Sophos claims to have uncovered an interesting new hybrid style of security attack on Twitter users that taps into security issues with Yahoo and Google's Adsense advertising service. 08 March 2010
Reports are coming in that discount retailer Argos, which allows customers to buy from its website, as well as order goods online for pickup from one of its many stores, has allegedly been mailing out customer payment card details – including the three and four digit CVV codes normally found on the signature strip or the front of the card – in its confirmatory emails 04 March 2010
Whilst the RSA Conference 2010 is going on in San Francisco, Rik Ferguson, Trend Micro's security spokesperson has been expounding on how criminals are battling against the rising ride of anti-malware technologies in the marketplace. 03 March 2010
Howard Schmidt, Cyber security advisor to President Obama, announced the revision of the classification guidance for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (or CNCI), during his keynote at RSA conference 2010 in San Francisco. 02 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
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
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
Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Webroot, tells Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway that “2010 is the right time to engage in cloud computing”, as they catch up in Silicon Valley. 01 March 2010
After years of gestation and evolution, criminal hackers are reaching critical mass in terms of their knowledge and ability to develop new attack methodologies, says Imperva. 01 March 2010
Reports are coming in of a major Twitter phish - almost certainly using automated software generated on multiple accounts - with a header of `Is this you?' or a similar variant. 01 March 2010
Launchpad Europe, the market acceleration specialist, says that its recent IT Security Index analysis has revealed the true value for IT security professionals of consulting with many different kinds of technical advisors. 25 February 2010
A study from Resource on Demand, the IT recruitment company, claims to show the company has been receiving a record number of enquiries for salesforce and software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialists during the first month of the year. 25 February 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
VeriSign has launched a new service designed to offer e-commerce firms that do not need SSL certificates a new way to secure and build greater consumer trust in their websites. 24 February 2010
Research just released claims to show that web 2.0 technology – and in particular, social networking sites – poses the top risk to small-to-mid-sized businesses in the year ahead. 22 February 2010
Hard on the heels of acquiring Perot Systems late last year, Dell is planning to launch an industry initiative that seeks for industry IT players to pool their talents to defend the internet from cybercriminals. 19 February 2010
Recruitment consultancy specialist, Barclay Simpson, has revealed that the Information Security market is growing. 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
The UK government has announced it is tackling the growing problem of fraudsters, criminals and rogue traders who use the internet and email to con consumers. 17 February 2010
Internet threat management solutions developer, Kaspersky Lab, has announced that it is a sponsor of 2010 RBS Six Nations Rugby tournament. 17 February 2010
Security solution developer, Cloudmark, has announced it has entered an agreement to takeover message processing platform developers, Bizanga. 17 February 2010
The latest state of spam and phishing report from Symantec claims to show that 92% of adult-related phishing is now taking place on social networking sites. 16 February 2010
Following the success of offering its firewall software for free late last year, unified threat management specialist Astaro has cut pricing on its UTM hardware systems by more than 50%. 16 February 2010
Security solutions vendor, Websense, is supporting government plans to invest £4.3m in combating online fraud. 16 February 2010
Third-party apps on social networking sites have been criticised in the past for security issues, with the main focus being on Facebook apps, but now the spotlight has fallen on Twitter. 12 February 2010
Life assistance company, CPP, is warning online daters about the dangers of giving out personal information this Valentine's day 12 February 2010
Information security vendor, Websense Labs, are warning users that spammers are already abusing Google Buzz, the newly launched social networking site 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
Virus protection company, PandaLabs, is warning internet users that cyber criminals will use Valentine’s Day-themed content to spread malware. 11 February 2010
The Mozilla Foundation, the open source group behind the popular Firefox web browser, has withdrawn a claim that a software developer had infected a Firefox add-on with a trojan. 11 February 2010
Web security company, ScanSafe, has released its annual report; findings reveal that cyber-criminals are targetting energy companies, pharmaceutical companies and government assets. 11 February 2010
Infosecurity is hosting a 60-minute webinar at 3pm on Thursday, looking at the issues relating to secure high-speed networking and appliances. 10 February 2010
IT security vendor F-Secure has extended its mobile data protection deal with Vodafone, which dates from two years ago, to cover users of PCs supplied by the international communications giant. 10 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
Security software vendor, Symantec, is urging football fans to be cautious when receiving World Cup information online. 10 February 2010
Network service security vendor, Prolexic, has released a report highlighting the difficulties in tracing the activities of cybercriminals using botnets. 10 February 2010
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre(CEOP) has launched a cartoon targeting young children, as part of the Safer internet day campaign. 09 February 2010
Three people suspected of running China’s biggest training website for hackers have been arrested following the government’s decision to close down the site. 09 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
Barracuda Networks has taken the wraps off a new technology firewall platform for distributed architectures that it claims will allow companies to enhance their firewall protection. 09 February 2010
Today, as you may have noticed, is Safer Internet Day, when vendors in the IT security world will almost certainly be appearing on the radio and TV explaining how to surf the net more securely. But, says Webroot, one of those vendors, users should watch – especially today – for fake updates to their security software. 09 February 2010
The Common Assurance Metric (CAM) industry initiative was launched today as a system of assuring security within cloud computing 08 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
Anti-virus company, Kaspersky lab, has issued a warning about the continual and increasing threat of trojans 08 February 2010
Data security vendor, Websense, has released a report detailing their findings on internet security over the last 6 months. 05 February 2010
Reports are coming in that a phishing scam centering on the international carbon credits scheme is causing havoc on international emissions trading exchanges. 05 February 2010
The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser application, has issued a warning of a fake update email doing the rounds 05 February 2010
IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, have released a warning to web users that an email claiming that an image of Gordon Brown’s smile will infect your PC is a hoax 05 February 2010
Internet user accounts and passwords – known as credentials in security circles – are rising in value and, say some reports, the credentials on Twitter, the social networking portal, can be worth up to $1000. 04 February 2010
Security software provider, Sunbelt Software, has reported a top 10 list of last month’s most frequent malware threats. Trojan horse files are considered to be the most dangerous. The top entry on the list; Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT made up almost a quarter of the overall detections with 23.15%. 04 February 2010
Information security and data protection vendor Sophos has released a list of the top 10 countries hosting malware. The report reveals that websites in the US are accountable for hosting 37.4% of malware worldwide. 04 February 2010
A report just published claims to show that 73% of online banking users share their electronic banking credentials with non-financial applications. 03 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
Trend Micro has linked up with Wipro Technologies to develop next-generation virtualisation security systems for data centre users, most notably those operating in public or private cloud networks. 02 February 2010
Yesterday was the last day in which UK taxpayers could file their 2008/2009 tax returns online – without getting fined for being late – and HMRC reports that tens of thousands of fraudulent phishing emails were sent out last week. 01 February 2010
A report just published concludes that the nature of botnet attacks is changing, with large-scale attacks being replaced by service and application-layer swarms. 01 February 2010
George Hotz, the first iPhone cracker – and who reportedly spent more than 500 hours developing the first jailbreak application for the Apple's iPhone back in 2007 – has apparently cracked the Sony Playstation 3. 29 January 2010
Research carried out by the University of Bedfordshire in conjunction with 7Safe, the IT forensics specialist, has found that there are a number of areas where organisations are commonly neglecting internet security and being rewarded with a data loss incident. 29 January 2010
The 3D Secure method of online card transaction protection – aka Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode – may not be as secure as the banks are telling us, as a team of security researchers claim there are multiple weaknesses. 28 January 2010
Israel's Checkmarx, a company that specialises in program code analysis, claims to have identified a relatively new type of web browser vulnerability called cross-site history manipulation. 27 January 2010
Skybox Security has taken the wraps off a new firewall management system that it claims will bring enterprise-class security risk and compliance management to the mid-range company end of the market. 27 January 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
Next week the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is kicking off a month-long campaign to increase awareness of online and offline fraud amongst businesses and consumers. 26 January 2010
Cloud Engines has developed a device that turns up to four USB-connected external hard drives into a cloud-accessible data storage resource, allowing anyone with the right credentials to access the data on the drive. 25 January 2010
Social 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
The developers behind the Tor Project, a voluntary IP anonymising project that allows internet users to proxy through to destination websites using a variety of free-to-use servers around the world, appears to have been hacked. 22 January 2010
Confirming what many internet industry watchers thought would happen this week, Microsoft says it will release an out-of-band patch later today, for the Internet Explorer security vulnerability used to attack Google and around 30 other companies affected by the widely publicised security flaw seen in the Google/China incident. 21 January 2010
Following on from our report earlier this month that anti-spam and malware specialist Cloudmark had reached a billion users of its technology worldwide, Infosecurity got a chance to chat with Chandra Tekwani, the firm's vice president of mobile operations. 20 January 2010
Microsoft has announced it will shorten the time it stores internet users' IP address from web search engine queries on its Bing portal down to six months. 20 January 2010
Following on from Germany's internet security agency publicly slamming Internet Explorer over the weekend and advising internet users to switch to another browser, France's CERTA agency has made a similar pronouncement. 19 January 2010
The escalating saga of Google and its strained relations with China took an unexpected turn over the weekend with the German government – in what it calls an unprecedented move – warning internet users to stop using Internet Explorer because of security risks. 18 January 2010
With the rapid ascendance of laptops, netbooks and smartphones, almost every organisation is having to adapt its IT security systems and procedures to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce. 18 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
The December IT security analysis on spam from Symantec claims to show that hijacked spam – spam that contains hijacked IPs – has risen substantially since November. 15 January 2010
As if companies have not had enough IT security headaches already, it seems that a growing number of firms have problems with their staff illegally downloading copyrighted files whilst at work. 15 January 2010
A study into remote working carried out by Check Point Software Technologies has found that, despite a significant rise in the numbers of remote workers, only 27% of organisations use encryption to protect their corporate data. 14 January 2010
Research just released claims to show that demand for mobile security technology is being driven by encryption in all its various forms. 14 January 2010
Thanks to the use of a wide-ranging licensing approach, deals with internet service providers and free trials on its anti-spam software plus allied technology, Cloudmark is claiming its technology now protects more than a billion users worldwide. 12 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
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
Fresh from unveiling a number of cloud security services, notably a software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving solution late last year, Webroot has joined EuroCloud, which is billed as Europe's most influential cloud computing network. 08 January 2010
Veteran computer security expert Professor Ross Anderson of Cambridge University says that European police and allied security agencies need a centralised agency in order to better tackle the problem of cybercrime. 07 January 2010
A report commissioned by one of the UK's major business Internet service providers claims to show that 2010 will be the year of cloud computing, but that — whilst many SMEs are gearing up for the benefits of cloud facilities — few are also upgrading their Internet connections. 07 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
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
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
Van Morrison, the veteran rock star - now in his 60s - got a rude awakening to the world of IT security over the holiday when the newspapers and newswires were full of stories that he had become a father again. 04 January 2010
Reports are coming in about a new worm - provisionally called GetFree - that offers users of the Twitter social networking site a sizeable increase in their online contacts. 31 December 2009
The number of phishing attacks “rose dramatically in the run up to Christmas”, according to managed security services company Network Box. 31 December 2009
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
The days when China was a primary source of spam are drawing to close, now that the Chinese Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) has implemented draconian new rules on domain name registration procedures. 29 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
In a move that will be monitored closely by the Gary McKinnon legal team, lawyers acting for Albert Gonzalez - the alleged mastermind behind the hacking of TJX Group's credit card systems around two years ago - are claiming their client has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. 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
A hacker group called ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hacked Twitter for an hour early on 18 December, redirecting users to a website containing a green flag and Arabic writing. 18 December 2009
A study from IDC Research shows that virtualised security appliances (VSAs) are becoming more and more popular amongst a growing number of companies. 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
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
File-sharing could be the big cyberthreat in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab’s 2010 Cyberthreat Forecast. 16 December 2009
Research carried out by Bell Micro, the IT systems distributor, claims to show that 67% of organisations believe there is a greater threat to their IT systems security and integrity from within their organisation than from hackers outside. 15 December 2009
As Christmas approaches, Symantec has seen an increase in Christmas spam targeting online shoppers. 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
Data security specialist Imperva has issued a warning after discovering a potentially serious SQL injection flaw with Rockyou.com, the social networking application development web portal. 14 December 2009
Another 1.5 million websites associated with the newest series of SQL injection attacks have been found by network security specialist eSoft. 14 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
SecureWorks, the US managed information security services specialist, has acquired dns, its UK-based rival, in a cash-and-stock deal that remains private between the two companies. 10 December 2009
A new online service - launched by IT security researcher Moxie Marlinspike - claims to crack vulnerable WiFi passwords in around 20 minutes, a process that would take a dual-core PC around 120 hours. 08 December 2009
Cybercrime is just like any other type of crime only with different tactics, Bruce Schneier tells Infosecurity. 08 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
With Thanksgiving out of the way in the US, and monthly salary earners having just been paid, online shopping has been soaring this week but, says Webroot, the IT security vendor, criminal malware authors are now targeting e-shopping in earnest with a variety of attacks. 04 December 2009
US-CERT has issued a warning about hackers and malware creators exploiting the fact that season of colds and flu - especially the swine flu variety - are now upon us. 03 December 2009
Research just published claims to show that around half of business laptops are vulnerable to security issues such as theft or data loss. 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
Bit.ly the URL shortening service - which has been quietly overtaking Tiny.url, the industry first URL shortening service, over the last year - has stolen another march by adding security facilities. 01 December 2009
Russian software vendor Extensys has developed UserGate, an application that includes two anti-virus engines at its heart, allowing SoHo (small office home office) and smaller companies access to a twin-engine IT security software for their internet connection. 27 November 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
F-Secure has upgraded its popular online malware and security protection checking facility for PCs, adding several new features to check whether a PC can surf the Net safely and securely, as well as advising security-aware users on what to do if their machine fails any aspect of the test. 25 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
A report just issued makes a clear business case for the IT flavour of the moment, cloud computing, concluding that the economies of scale and potential for enhanced IT robustness make the technology highly attractive for most businesses. 24 November 2009
Fortinet, the unified threat management (UTM) specialist, has gone public with an initial public offering (IPO) projected originally at $9 to $11 a share. 20 November 2009
A study released by the Ponemon Institute suggests that the number of reported data loss incidents in the UK is significantly higher than 415 reported to the Information Commissioners' Office. 20 November 2009
Reports are coming in that hackers have breached the servers of one of the world's major climate research units (CRU), posting around 61 megabytes of emails and documents to an FTP server in Russia. 20 November 2009
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
Verbatim has taken the wraps off a Secure ExpressCard-based solid state drive (SSD) with onboard 256-bit hardware encryption. 17 November 2009
Webroot has been signed by Everton Football club to protect the club's IT systems against the vagaries of spam and malware infested email. 17 November 2009
Astaro Corporation, the IT security appliance specialist, is branching out into the small business/consumer side of the IT security market with a freeware version of its security software. 16 November 2009
The October malware charts - just released by Sunbelt Software - show that the password-stealing trojan threat Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen maintained the top spot on the list for the seventh straight month and is growing at an alarming rate. 13 November 2009
A group of MPs have voiced their opinion that the extradition to the US of self-confessed UFO hacker Gary McKinnon should be halted - and that he should stand trail in the UK - owing to the "precarious state of (his) mental health". 13 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
avast! CEO Vincent Steckler told Infosecurity this week that the new version of the free avast! anti-virus includes more capabilities such as behavioural detections at the same time as being faster and smaller. It can also wake up your computer in the night to do a virus scan before putting it back to sleep. 12 November 2009
Research just released by Proofpoint, the enterprise email security vendor, claims to show that cloud computing continues to cause confusion amongst technology users, including IT professionals in the industry. 11 November 2009
Following on from yesterday's launch of the industry's first free cloud computing anti-virus application from Panda Security, Infosecurity had a chance to catch up with the IT security firm's technical director Luis Corron and UK/Ireland MD, Petter Lautin. 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
An unknown hacker - apparently protesting about terror deaths in Pakistan - has attacked the Durham Police website, forcing it to temporarily close. 10 November 2009
Panda Security has launched itself into the increasingly busy cloud computing security marketplace with a free desktop application - Panda Cloud Antivirus. 10 November 2009
Voice Commerce, the IT / financial service group founded by veteran IT entrepreneur Nick Ogden, has implemented an API (application programming interface) for its voice authentication biometric technology. 09 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
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
News that ICANN, the internet registry, has announced that international domain names (IDNs) will now support non-Latin characters has been met with dismay by ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association, which says that it will increase the dangers of phishing and affect web security generally. 04 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
Khalid Shaikh, the former CEO of YouSendIt.com, the Web 2.0 services portal, has been indicted for an alleged DDoS attack against YouSendIt.com. 03 November 2009
IT security vendor Symantec has uncovered a trojan that uses the Facebook social networking portal to communicate with a command and control (C&C) server 03 November 2009
M86, the web and messaging security products vendor, has acquired business internet security specialist Finjan for an undisclosed sum of money. The move boosts M86's payroll to a shade more than 300 staff. 03 November 2009
The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s - and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years - is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa's operation there has announced. 03 November 2009
The October intelligence report from MessageLabs suggests that internet users should get ready for a Season's Greetings of another type, as hackers and spammers prepare for the holiday season along with the rest of the population. 30 October 2009
Outsourcing providers should prove their IT security credentials, said NCC Group, as research commissioned by the IT assurance specialist has found that 89% of large companies in the UK outsource at least one IT system or business process. 28 October 2009
Cisco Systems has announced plans to acquire ScanSafe, the privately held security software company for around US$183 million. 28 October 2009
Many IT professionals are unaware of the cost savings that software as a service (SaaS) security solutions can offer, according to a survey conducted by security vendor Websense at this year’s IDC Security Summit. 27 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
A report commissioned by a US Congressional advisory panel monitoring the security implications of trading with China has warned that China could be preparing to ramp up cyberespionage and has started spying on the servers of the US government and major companies. 26 October 2009
Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised. 26 October 2009
International research completed by ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association, suggests that, with the Christmas holiday season fast approaching, staff at many companies are planning to do a sizeable slice of their present buying online and thereby posing an IT security risk. 23 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
Mozilla has revealed it working with third-party software developers on an email prioritisation technology that analyses a users various internet plus email accounts and makes intelligent decisions on how far up the message queue to present them to internet users. 23 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
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
Although business users have had copies of Windows 7 on their machines for a short while now, this Thursday will see the first copies of the new Microsoft operating system released to consumers. And BitDefender says it is ready, as its 2010 range of IT security products have just been released, complete with Windows 7 certification. 20 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
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
Against all previous expectations, and just weeks before he was due to be extradited to the US on serious hacking charges, Gary Mckinnon, the self-confessed `UFO hacker' has had a stay on his case from the Home Office. 19 October 2009
Microsoft says it has registered more than 1.5 million downloads of its free anti-virus software - Security Essentials - in the first week after the software was made available on the web. 19 October 2009
Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year. 16 October 2009
Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss. 16 October 2009
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
Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam - in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax - has arrived in the UK. 15 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
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
Self-confessed UFO hacker Gary McKinnon has been denied the chance to appeal to the Supreme Court against his extradition to the US. 12 October 2009
Research just released by Financial Fraud Action UK notes that fraud losses on UK payment cards fell by nearly a quarter during the first half of 2009, as criminals apparently targeted cards issued abroad. 12 October 2009
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
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
Hard on the heels of MI5 hiring around 50 young Asian hackers to counter criminal cyberattacks and other electronic warfare against the UK comes news that the UK government is planning a hacker talent competition. 09 October 2009
Existing anti-virus is not good enough, a panel of speakers agreed on 7 October at ISSE 2009 in The Hague. 08 October 2009
As interest in Google's Wave technology peaks, hackers and scammers will inevitably ride the coat tails of Wave web searches and attempt to divert internet users to malicious and infected sites, according to a data security consultancy firm. 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
Infosecurity is pleased to announce its first webinar on the topic of Web 2.0 branding and reputational risks, which will be held at 3pm (UK time) this Thursday. 07 October 2009
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
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
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
Kaspersky is releasing enhancements to its core Kaspersky Open Space Security product making it faster, lighter, and easier to use for small and medium businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises. 05 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
As web threats by far surpass email threats as the preferred vector of attack, eSoft’s CTO, Patrick Walsh, insists that organisations should be looking to web filtering to secure their business. 05 October 2009
As more and more fundamental tasks in society are carried out online, information security is becoming increasingly important, but the government is not moving fast enough, according to Conservatives MP Eleanor Laing. 02 October 2009
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
Research by Webroot suggests that the rash of anti-virus scamware - which reports that the users' PC is infected, when it is not, and then requests a payment for registration - is sucking in a lot of internet users. 01 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
Security IP, the value-added IT security distributor, has announced it is importing and supporting MailArchiva, an email archiving and compliance suite of software from the USA. 29 September 2009
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 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
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
MI5 has hired a batch of Asian teenage computer hackers to help fight cyberterrorism in China, Russia and Pakistan. 24 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
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
Network security company eSoft’s threat prevention team has discovered new malware sites specifically targeting users of Windows operating system and Google. 22 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
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
US government officials are reported to be watching India with interest, where the government has taken the major national security step of recommending a ban on international internet telephony until a system to trace the calls is in place. 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
The Websense Security Labs report on the state of internet security for the first half of 2009, has found that the number of malicious websites has increased 233% over the last six months, and 671% over the last year. 17 September 2009
ScanSafe, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) web security specialist, has landed a prestigious deal with Orange Business Services, the corporate operations division of Orange, the telecommunication service provider. 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
A competition for software testers to reveal bugs in major search engines has unearthed over 600 in Google, Google Caffeine, Bing and Yahoo. 16 September 2009
Wick Hill, the veteran IT security value-added distributor, says it has acquired the distribution business for Kaspersky Labs from another distributor, C-Media, with immediate effect. 15 September 2009
ENISA, the European Union agency, has published what it claims is first pan-European good practice guide on Network Security Information Exchange (NSIE). 15 September 2009
Gemalto, the French digital security firm, has acquired Trusted Logic, a provider of security software for mobile devices. 14 September 2009
Self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon, who gained unauthorised access to multiple Pentagon computer systems, will learn this week whether an application for an appeal in his case will be heard by the Supreme Court, the new highest court in the UK. 14 September 2009
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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
Research by the 3rd Man, an electronic fraud and security specialist, has uncovered some interesting statistics about cardholder-not-present transactions, as well as fraudulent mail order plus online card purchases in the UK. 08 September 2009
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
O2 - as well as BT subsidiary internet service provider Plusnet - have both responded to a potential XSS security flaw identified in the Thomson TG565 and TG565n wireless broadband routers they issue to their internet users. 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
Bloxx, a web filtering firm, has issued a warning that anonymous proxies - which are now being used by students to bypass campus blocks on inappropriate content - pose a serious information security threat to young people. 04 September 2009
The problem of cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaws - which have affected hundreds of websites this year - has spread to broadband routers, as a security researcher claims that the Thomson wireless box III supplied by O2 leaves internet users "wide open" to the issue. 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
Three quarters of web users are not security savvy despite many consumers being aware of potential security threats, according to a worldwide study conducted by security specialist PC Tools. 03 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
Users are more at risk from malicious websites that steal credit cards than ever before, according to the latest IBM X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk report. Even legitimate sites may pose serious security risks. 28 August 2009
Posting your address and then updates about when you are going on holiday onto social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook is a gift to potential burglars, and a headache for insurers. 28 August 2009
The government is to speed up the introduction of technical measures to stop online piracy, which it says is costing creative industries too much money. 26 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
Illegal files-sharers could see their internet connection cut under amendments proposed by the UK government to the section on how to deal with illegal file-sharing in the forthcoming Digital Britain Bill. 25 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
Research just released says that 19% of all hacking incidents centered on social networking sites during the first half of 2009. The study, from Nebulas Solutions Group, noted a 30% rise in the percentage of online attacks compared with the first half of 2008. 19 August 2009
In what security experts are calling 'the largest ever identity theft case in modern history', a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards. 19 August 2009
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 Charities Security Forum (CSF) is looking for new members in the charitable sector, following its creation just over a year ago. 18 August 2009
Tesco's Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company. 18 August 2009
The problem of religiously-motivated hacker attacks raised its ugly head again this month with an attack on the Express newspaper in Kosovo. Newswire reports suggest that Islamist hackers attacked the paper's website using a combination of simple malware and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack vectors. 17 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
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
A 20-year-old man has been arrested in Adelaide, Australia, in connection with infecting at least 3000 PCs worldwide with a virus capable of extracting e-banking and other financial credentials from users' computers. 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
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
The Conservative party is to reveal plans to cut NHS IT spending by scrapping the government's planned central database for medical records. 10 August 2009
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
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
Hard on the heels of researchers at last week's Black Hat security briefings showing how easy it is to recover third party passwords on Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Office Online services, Andy Cordial, Origin Storage's managing director, said that this highlights the fact that local storage technology is far more secure than the cloud. 05 August 2009
Arbor Networks has published internet bandwidth usage figures from June and July that make fascinating reading if you ever wondered how less democratic governments such as Iran filters and blocks internet traffic for their citizens. 04 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
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
The UK hacker Gary McKinnon who became famous for hacking US military and NASA computers in 2001 and 2002 looking for evidence of UFOs, has lost his appeal against extradition to the USA. 31 July 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
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
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
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
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 website of the UK counter-intelligence and security agency MI5, has been hacked with the result that the identity of visitors could be stolen and viruses downloaded to their computers. 30 July 2009
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
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
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
Fresh from offering its channel partners free training in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology, Webroot has secured the UK's College of Law as a high-profile new customer for its cloud-based security services. 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 July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs. 28 July 2009
A major data breach - potentially impacting more than 570,000 cardholders around the world - has been discovered by Network Solutions, the internet hosting and systems company. 27 July 2009
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
One of Russia's most powerful business lobby groups has told the country's government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country's businesses and to national security. 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
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
A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC's divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark. 24 July 2009
A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into 'zombies' controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert. 24 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
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
Imperva, a data security specialist, says that last week's hacking of a Twitter senior executive's email account - details of which are now fully emerging - was the result of a combination of poor security practices and safeguards. 23 July 2009
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
Police in Australia have taken to the streets to detect unsecured WiFi access point - and then visiting the companies/home owners of the sites to give them information security advice. 21 July 2009
Google is not responsible for the content of its internet search results, a UK court has ruled. 21 July 2009
A mobile phone worm called Sexy Space has been spotted by Trend Micro and is the first, the IT security vendor says, to spread itself by spamming text (SMS) messages. 20 July 2009
SmoothWall has continued its expansion into new areas of IT security with the release of Mobile Guardian, a software filtering client designed for laptop PC users. 17 July 2009
Based on an analysis of two billion emails and internet transactions processed by its OEM anti-spam and anti-malware customers every day, CommTouch says that millions of email-borne malware such as Trojans and viruses bypassed several major anti-virus engines during the second quarter of 2009. 17 July 2009
Online criminals are using state of the art business strategies to commit cybercrimes, says network equipment maker Cisco. 16 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
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
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
A survey from network security provider Fortinet, has found that 90% of mid-to-large enterprises in the UK, Germany and France are likely to undertake a network security consolidation project over the next year. 14 July 2009
The NHS was infected by over 8000 (computer) viruses over the last year, many of which could have been avoided if information security policies and technologies were properly adopted. 14 July 2009
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
Microsoft is warning Internet Explorer users of attacks that attempt to exploit an ActiveX vulnerability affecting MS Office and ISA Server. 14 July 2009
UK business typically spends 75% of software development budgets on eliminating security flaws, according to IT cost studies by security firm Comsec Consulting. 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
Researchers with Russian IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab say they detected 575 new variants of the Koobface worm during June. 13 July 2009
A report just published by Ben Chai - a director with Incoming Thought Limited and editor of the SecurityVibes portal - claims to show that a security flaw in the secure sockets layer (SSL) internet protocol has been used by criminals to circumvent supposed secure e-commerce website. 13 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
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
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
Worlwide IT spending could fall 6% to US$3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Connecticut-based IT research and advisory company Gartner. 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
The CEO of a virtual gaming bank within the space trading game EVE Online, has run off with 200bn of virtual credits trading them in for real world cash of £3115 (US$5100) through the black market. 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
Quocirca, the business and IT research analysis company, has released a report looking at how encryption can add value to an organisation. 06 July 2009
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
A nasty new trojan that triggers multiple click-throughs on Google AdSense - the pay-per-click sponsored web search service operated by Google - has been discovered by SecureWorks. 02 July 2009
A research student who had a summer job at IBM, has cracked a cryptography problem that has baffled experts for over 30 years. The breakthrough may pave the way to secure cloud computing services. 30 June 2009
The Pirate Bay - arguably one of the highest profile file-sharing indexing portals in the world - has hit the headlines with plans to launch a video streaming/sharing website ostensibly similar to Russian sites such as Movieberry.com 30 June 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
Max Butler - aka Max Vision and Iceman - has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases. 30 June 2009
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
Spammers are using the death of music legend Michael Jackson to harvest unsuspecting computer users' email addresses for future spam campaigns. 26 June 2009
Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter users are more vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft and malware infection than they realise, a survey has revealed. 26 June 2009
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
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
Google have launched Anti-Malvertising.com to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements. Finjan, specialising in secure web gateway products and unified web security for the enterprise market,have welcomed this launch. 24 June 2009
A European-based gang behind sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks on small and medium enterprises has returned after a five-month break, says security firm iDefe