Infosecurity News
Cisco, EMC and VMware form cloud computing coalition
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.
Chip & PIN invades Australia
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.
M86 acquires Finjan; combines IT security research operations
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.
Symantec uncovers new type of Facebook trojan
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
Symantec warns about Google Wave invites malware
Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.
Window 7 users struggle to boot up
Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft's support site.
US opens cyber security command centre
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Gartner and US GAO worry about swine flu net congestion worries
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last mile' delivery infrastructure.
Tipping Point gets multi-threaded with intrusion prevention system launch
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.
Economic climate increases fears of identity theft
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.
Biometrics 2009: Schools are spear-heading the use of biometrics
Approximately 10% of schools are deploying biometric technologies, according to Alasdair Darroch, director of Biostore
BlackBerry users warned by US-CERT on eavesdropping PhoneSnoop application
The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application called PhoneSnoop.
FBI director almost fell for phishing attack
The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.
UK CIOs reported 356 data loss incidents last year
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss incidents in the period October 2007 to November 2008.
51 000 reasons for data encryption hit Zurich Insurance
Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
Man jailed for selling pirated software on eBay
A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
Weekly brief October 26, 2009
Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.
Hackers successfully target Guardian Jobs site
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.
RSA Europe: Barings Bank collapse avoidable if controls were in place
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
RSA Europe: Information warfare is an overused term
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.
