A US encryption systems company has abandoned its attempt to buy a UK company in the same field, after the Competition Commission was brought in to investigate the deal.
Barclays is to offer its banking customers an interoperable card reader by the end of this year or early 2007 as part of efforts to strengthen its online security.
Trading off customer convenience against security, banks are reluctant to follow the lead of Alliance & Leicester and implement two-factor authentication
Research from Computer Weekly in 2005 displayed some alarming trends regarding the security worthiness of small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the UK: only 18% reported never to have been hacked or attacked.
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