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17 January 2008
Many Oracle enterprises ignore its patches, says study
Two-thirds of attendees at US Oracle user group meetings have never applies CPUs

14 January 2008
SANS Institute reveals top 10 cyber threats for 2008
Trusted web sites will be exploited to spread malware, experts believe

10 January 2008
FAA Plays Down Boeing 787 Security Concerns
Regulator points out link of passenger and operational networks on new plane

8 January 2008
TV presenter “wrong” after bank account scam
BBC America star hit by data theft

7 January 2008
Firefox flaw allows password hack, says researcher
Israeli researcher says latest version of alternative browser has problems with log-ons

7 January 2008
Flash users hit by cross-site scripting flaw
US-Cert warns of input validation flaw

2 January 2008
Better job prospects for infosecurity staff, says SANS
Mobile phones, social engineering and Olympics will add to 2008 risks, according to industry

13 December 2007
US-CERT: hackers are attacking flaw in Microsoft Access
Organisation warns of stack buffer overflow vulnerability

10 December 2007
A year of sophisticated web threats
MP3 attachments make their debut, finds MessageLabs' security report

7 December 2007
IBM buys Arsenal
Data protection firm follows Princeton Softech

7 December 2007
SANS: crooks turn fire on users and custom software
Top 20 highlights spear phishing danger

29 November 2007
Government systems to be targeted by cyber attacks
Report says UK, US and Germany state-sector bodies are likely targets

28 November 2007
Webroot buys Email Systems
US firm promises it will support existing customers and installations

26 November 2007
RSA standard vulnerable, says founder
Adi Shamir says flaw in a widely-used microchip could allow encryption to be "trivially broken"

20 November 2007
UK government loses data on 25m Britons
HM Revenue and Customs chairman resigns over computer discs lost in the post

15 November 2007
Google enhances Postini hosted e-mail security offering
Search engine giant adds content-based policy option for message-scanning

15 November 2007
Enhanced Sophos appliances block e-mail data leaks
Hardware can scan and encrypt outbound content

14 November 2007
iPhone unfit for corporate email
Gartner and Infosecurity editorial board say Apple device lacks security; UK network provider O2 says it is for consumer use

9 November 2007
Browser providers should admit flaws, says Mozilla
CSI 2007: Firms must open up, Window Snyder tells conference

9 November 2007
Discipline blamed for non-compliance
CSI 2007: Log management experts say lack of budget is another excuse

7 November 2007
Flawless ID doesn’t exist, says e-commerce specialist
CSI 2007: Passwords are not enough, Sanjay Bavisi tells conference

6 November 2007
Warning as first serious Apple Mac Trojan hits
Malware attacks DNS to divert web traffic

6 November 2007
HSBC to integrate its global fraud defences
Bank creates bespoke system for single view of accounts

2 November 2007
Interview: the Value of Bruce
BT Counterpane’s Bruce Schneier on why he hasn’t been fired yet

26 October 2007
Symantec develops automated IT service system
Altiris Workflow system to be available in beta next month

25 October 2007
Card issuer to adopt graphical Pin randomiser
Start-up licences method for increasing security of card transactions

25 October 2007
Spyware cashes in quietly
RSA Europe 2007: What you can’t see can hurt you, says Eschelbeck

25 October 2007
Personalities required for team-building
RSA Europe 2007: infosecurity teams need personalities as well as technical skills

24 October 2007
Nato meets to plan cyberdefences
RSA Europe 2007: Defence group will announce policy next year

24 October 2007
Cyberwarfare threat is growing, say experts
RSA Europe 2007: attack on Estonia could be first of many

22 October 2007
Biometrics help security trump privacy
Biometrics 2007: Speaker argues that such technology “de-humanises” society

22 October 2007
Joining up data would speed border checks
Biometrics 2007: Speakers tell conference how security could be co-ordinated

19 October 2007
Fingerprints fail to tackle soccer‘hooligans’
Biometrics 2007, London: trial at Dutch clubs found biometrics were easy to spoof

9 October 2007
Nato defends its networks
Defence organisation spends £4.2 million to strengthen protection

4 October 2007
Websense completes SurfControl acquisition
Firm says purchase furthers intelligent content protection strategy

19 September 2007
Lumension sticks to specialisation
Firm will retain purchased product lines and combine them in an appliance

18 September 2007
Spend less on IT security, says Gartner
Prevention is better, and cheaper, than cure, says John Pescatore

18 September 2007
Secure software may take 50 years, says Rutkowska
"Stupid users" not to blame for all problems, Gartner conference hears

14 September 2007
Google calls for world-wide privacy standard
Peter Fleischer backs Asia-Pacific agreement as “the most promising foundation”

14 September 2007
PCI payment card body adds PIN entry device testing to portfolio
Agreement provides global standard for Chip and PIN

11 September 2007
Disaster recovery six years after 11 September
Analysis: what organisations learnt following 2001's terrorist attacks

6 September 2007
Everyone's hacking the net, says Check Point founder
Governments, gangs and amateurs are all on the attack, he believes

3 September 2007
Zango loses case against Kaspersky Lab
US court refuses to force Kaspersky to stop blocking firm's software

31 August 2007
Jericho Forum at the crossroads
High-level security think-tank considering how to get vendors to support its guidelines

28 August 2007
280 000 New York pensioners in data theft scare
Laptop with city's pension details stolen from restaurant

24 August 2007
US has lessons for Britain on e-crime punishment
Analysis: as the US charges three major e-criminals, report says Britain lacks capacity in tackling such crime

24 August 2007
Biometrics move from banking to borders
San Jose state university’s Jim Wayman says usage, testing and technology have changed significantly in last decade

20 August 2007
Windows update blamed for Skype outage
48 hours downtime blamed on mass reboot after Microsoft update

20 August 2007
Seven years in jail for identity theft fraudster
US man used personal data to defraud bank customers

17 August 2007
Wal-Mart deploys new data security system
SSH provides global network encryption

14 August 2007
Naive Facebookers face fraud threat
Spoof profile of frog attracted dozens of pieces of personal data, finds Sophos

7 August 2007
IBM buys Princeton Softech
Data security vendor says Optim product will be maintained

7 August 2007
Microsoft picks nCipher for authentication
Cambridge firm's hardware product will be used across Microsoft's range

3 August 2007
Quarter of all spam comes as attachment
While mass-mailers and trojans continue to threaten smaller organisations

27 July 2007
PDF spam-wave subsides
Users are not clicking on infected PDF files, says vendor

25 July 2007
IT security spending to exceed $20bn by 2010
Analyst expects 32% growth over three years, with increased use of one supplier to provide the bulk of an organisation’s protection

19 July 2007
Google pushes privacy by crumbling cookies
Analysis: change makes little practical difference, but sends pro-privacy message

10 July 2007
Google buys Postini to sell infosecurity as a service
Products will fit with Google Apps for clients of all sizes, says search engine firm

2 July 2007
VW to save £35m with global access management
Meanwhile, SAP enters the identity management market

26 June 2007
BP aligns IT with physical security
Oil multinational will bring infosecurity closer to physical and corporate security over next two years

25 June 2007
Infosec ignorance is a barrier to security in America's Cup
For the 32nd America's Cup, the Victory Challenge team introduced security into their game plan

25 June 2007
HP launches the Secure Advantage platform
Hewlett Packard has launched software to protect data on HP servers and storage for regulatory compliance.

25 June 2007
Spanish police arrest suspected mobile phone virus writer
Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of writing and distributing mobile phone viruses.

22 June 2007
PatchLink to acquire SecureWave
PatchLink have announced that terms for the acquisition of SecureWave have been agreed in an all-stock merger.

21 June 2007
New web threats gain momentum
Eighty per cent of infected websites have been compromised by a third-party hacker

20 June 2007
Renault Formula 1 deploy IRM to protect car designs
Financial infosecurity specialist hopes to build academic links

15 June 2007
Lack of management tools slows BitLocker adoption
Organisations prefer small-scale adoptions of Microsoft disk encryption

31 May 2007
Image spam levels tumble
Proportion falls from 56% in January to below 16% last week

31 May 2007
Corporates used partners for security
Skills shortages are the cause, says F-Secure head

29 May 2007
Nato aids Estonia in denial of service fight
International attacks represent throw-back to days of cyber-graffiti

23 May 2007
Microsoft alters Office security
Two new features designed to help secure documents

17 May 2007
One gang corners the market in phish
"Rock-phish" switches web and IP addresses to avoid black-listing, say Cambridge researchers

11 April 2007
Microsoft gets patching
Microsoft and security researchers are investigating reports of several potentially serious bugs affecting Microsoft Office.

21 March 2007
Encryption is the new postman
Traditional methods of sending confidential data are less effective and less secure than encrypting email.

21 March 2007
Cover your back security: always one step behind
The tendency for security to always be one step behind is something which has become apparent since 9/11, says Schneier.

20 March 2007
VoIP - soon to be under attack?
Governments will learn to love encrypted voice-over IP (VoIP), even though it may curtail their ability to eavesdrop on telephone conversations.

7 March 2007
Increased collaboration between companies set to ignite new security market, says Gartner
An increasingly collaborative business community is opening organizations out to threats that will give rise to a new $10 billion market by 2012. Research house Gartner is predicting that the market that will promote and protect what it calls the ‘Communities of Trust’ could be worth at least $10 billion in five years time.