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All Risk Management News - November 2006

Cabinet Office awards quality mark for Pocket PC security

News
Author: Antony Savvas
Date: 08 November 2006

The Cabinet Office’s Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA) has awarded Pointsec Mobile Technologies a quality mark for its Pocket PC mobile security system.

Chip and Pin cuts fraud

News
Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 08 November 2006

The introduction of chip and Pin technology has had a dramatic impact on payment card fraud, new figures have revealed.

Mozilla fixes Firefox flaws

News
Author: Bill Brenner, Senior News Writer
Date: 08 November 2006

Attackers could exploit multiple flaws in Firefox, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird to crash machines, bypass security restrictions and launch malicious code.

Direct Push security questionable

News analysis
Author: Andrew R. Hickey, Senior News Writer
Date: 08 November 2006

Email received via Microsoft Direct Push, while encrypted over the air, is stored in an unsecured state, prompting some mobile experts to declare it a flaw.

Microsoft ActiveX bug is ‘extremely critical’

News
Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 07 November 2006

Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating a security bug described by independent security experts as “extremely critical” in XML Core Services on Windows.

Bank fraud drives adoption of two-factor authentication

News
Author: Bill Goodwin
Date: 07 November 2006

Banks will come under further pressure to adopt two-factor authentication technology following a 55% increase in the cost of online banking fraud over the past year.

NHS to upload medical records without consent

News
Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 07 November 2006

The medical records of around 50 million NHS patients are set to be uploaded to the “spine” of a national database early next year without the subjects’ consent.

Mac virus ‘does not replicate’

News
Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 07 November 2006

Security experts have detected a new virus that affects Apple Mac computers, but say the risk level is very low because it does not replicate effectively.

Online fault mapping means no shocks for electricity customers

Case Study
Author: Arif Mohamed
Date: 07 November 2006

Utility firm Central Networks has launched a live network map on its website to improve the transparency of operations to its 4.9 million customers.

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Date: 07 November 2006

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