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Application security and coding requirements

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  Racing Post warns users of website breach

  The Racing Post is advising users of its website to change their passwords for other sites if they use the same one in case hackers break the encryption

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Gartner: CIOs need to address procurement to buy IT from startups

  Companies must reassess IT procurement to enable them do business with smaller firms, if they wish to ride the innovation curve.

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  University cuts software installation time from days to hours

  The University of Dundee claims to have reduced the time its central IT department takes to install software to over 1,300 academics from days to hours, after investing in privilege management software

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Identity assurance system moves into beta test phase

  The Government Digital Service has started testing of a key system to support plans for citizens to securely prove their identity when accessing online public services

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Microsoft reveals operational security methodology

  Microsoft has lifted the veil on how it maintains security for more than 200 cloud services, including Office 365, Windows Azure and Outlook.com

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Information sharing key to security, say European experts

  Faster threat information sharing is essential in the face of increasingly sophisticated attacks, say European experts

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Upfront security better and cheaper, says expert

  Businesses can increase data protection and decrease cost by baking in information security from the start of any IT project

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Google to reward open source security fixes

  Google has announced plans to reward developers for proactive security improvements for select open source projects

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  UK security researcher first to win top Microsoft bounty

  A UK security researcher is the first to win $100,000 in one of three new Microsoft bug bounty programmes

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  FireEye discovers rapidly growing class of mobile threats

  FireEye researchers have discovered a rapidly growing class of mobile threats affecting at least 200 million users

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Microsoft pays out $128K to security bug hunters

  Microsoft has paid out more than $128,000 since introducing bug bounty programmes in June

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  Adobe security chief Brad Arkin apologises for credit card theft

  Adobe's chief security officer (CSO) Brad Arkin has posted a blog on the company’s website apologising for a major security breach

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Developing a new strategy for information security

  What are the chief challenges facing information security practitioners and what are the solutions?

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Cyber attacks to escalate over next decade

  Medical implants, cars and critical infrastructure could be at risk from cyber attacks by the end of the decade, study claims