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• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  US consumer watchdog wants sponsored search returns clearly marked

  US trading authorities have ordered the world’s most popular search engines to clearly identify search returns sponsored by advertisers

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  Government abandons super-connected cities broadband plans

  Government plans to spend £150m on broadband infrastructure have been watered down after legal challenges by Virgin Media and BT

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Encrypting enterprises miss out on cloud benefits

  Enterprises sending encrypted data to the cloud are missing out on some of the greatest benefits of cloud computing, says Thales e-Security

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Cloud, mobile and Macs the next targets for hackers, says Kaspersky Lab

  Cloud computing, mobile devices and non-Windows operating systems will become the next targets for cyber attackers, says Kaspersky Lab

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Cloud adoption immature, shows security survey

  Adoption of cloud-based services is still immature in terms of security and privacy, a global survey of more than 4,000 organisations in seven countries has revealed

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Identity management key to browser-based IT strategy

  A cloud-based identity management system is key to enabling a browser-based IT strategy at online recruitment firm Reed.co.uk

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Mobile security model flawed, says Mobile Helix

  Many companies are embracing mobile devices wrongly because the current security model is flawed, says security startup Mobile Helix

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Trend Micro joins Interpol fight against cyber crime

  Security firm Trend Micro has signed up to help support Interpol’s global law enforcement programmes against cyber crime

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Consumers demand action to protect their privacy online

  Consumers across the world want more to be done to protect their privacy online according to new research

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Facebook bug exposes six million users' details unintentionally

  Facebook has admitted that a bug caused the phone numbers and email addresses of six million users to be shared unintentionally

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  Most firms underestimate volume of malware, study shows

  Most companies greatly underestimate the number of malicious programs appearing daily, a global survey of more than 2,000 IT professionals has revealed

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  ICO takes further action on Google’s collection of Wi-Fi data

  The ICO has taken further action against Google over the collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, but has stopped short of a monetary penalty

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  UK businesses failing to secure virtual environments, study finds

  Most UK businesses are failing to secure data in virtual environments, a survey of IT decision makers has revealed

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  Government launches cyber awareness campaign

  UK government debuts the first stage of a £4m cyber awareness campaign as part of the National Cyber Security Programme

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  EU data protection regulators begin action against Google

  Privacy regulators across Europe are beginning to take action against Google for failing to change the way it manages user data

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  LinkedIn social networking site hit by DNS hijacking

  Professional networking site LinkedIn has been hit by a DNS hijacking attack, but the service appears to have been restored after two breaks

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  DuckDuckGo trebles searches after Prism surveillance scandal

  DuckDuckGo, which does not track users' activities, has shot to prominence since US Prism online monitoring programme was revealed

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Microsoft offers cash rewards for security bug hunters

  Microsoft unveils security bounty programmes to improve its products through responsible disclosure of flaws that could be exploited by hackers

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Lock up admin accounts to defeat hackers, says Cyber-Ark

  Hackers typically target privileged admin accounts to gain access to all computer systems, says David Higgins, senior sales manager Cyber-Ark

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Yahoo joins tech firms declaring US data request numbers

  Yahoo is the latest technology firm to reveal statistics on US government surveillance requests

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  PM calls meeting to tackle online porn

  Prime Minister David Cameron has called a meeting with internet firms to discuss ways of blocking images of child sex abuse and to prevent children from viewing pornography online

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Cyber attacks top banking risk, says Bank of England

  Cyber attacks are the top risk for UK banks, says Andrew Haldane, director of financial stability at the Bank of England

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Iran Gmail phishing attacks up ahead of election, says Google

  Phishing attacks are targeting tens of thousands of Gmail users in Iran in the run up to elections in the country, say Google security researchers

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Google faces fresh calls for tax investigation

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is calling for a full investigation of Google’s alleged tax evasion practices in the UK

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  US repeatedly hacked China, claims NSA whistleblower

  The US has been hacking Hong Kong and China since 2009, says former technical assistant for the CIA, Edward Snowden

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  UK cloud users more positive about security than non-users, study shows

  UK SMEs see security, privacy and reliability benefits in cloud-based services, a study from comScore shows

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Technology companies call for more transparency over data requests

  Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft call on US government to allow them to publish greater detail about requests to hand over user data

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  CISOs must shape up or ship out, says Forrester

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) must evolve into data risk managers if they are to survive in the future, says Forrester Research

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  BAE Systems latest to join cyber security skills drive

  Aerospace and defence company BAE Systems joins the race to help plug the UK cyber security skills gap

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Security tech market set to grow 8.7% in 2013, says Gartner

  The worldwide security technology and services market will reach $67.2bn in 2013, up 8.7% from 2012, according to research firm Gartner

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Israel says Iran’s cyber attacks are incessant

  Israel has accused Iran of carrying out incessant cyber attacks on its computer systems

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Apple unveils iOS 7

  Apple has unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system, saying iOS 7 is the most significant update since the original iPhone

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  UK links to US internet surveillance remain unclear

  The government insists that UK spy agencies operate within the law, but questions remain

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Zero trust model key to security success, says Forrester

  The principles of network confidentiality, integrity and availability are not balanced, says John Kindervag, principal analyst at Forrester Research

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IT industry alliance to sponsor cyber security skills

  IT organisations have set up a sponsorship scheme to encourage people to acquire the cyber security skills to protect UK business

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  School initiative launched to fill cyber security skills gap

  The UK’s search for cyber security talent is being taken into schools for the first time

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  PM urged to criminalise internet rape porn

  Campaigners are calling for the criminalisation of possessing internet pornography depicting rape

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  FBI spies on internet users

  Revelations that the FBI and National Security Agency tap into nine US internet firms implicate Facebook, Apple and Google

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  UK infrastructure needs better security controls on suppliers, says ISC

  An Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report reveals weaknesses in the UK's approach to critical national infrastructure

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  US agency collects Verizon phone data with secret court order

  The National Security Agency is collecting from Verizon the phone records of millions of US citizens under a court order

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Microsoft partnership takes down 1,000 cybercrime botnets

  Microsoft has disrupted more than 1,000 botnets in a joint campaign with the financial services industry and the FBI

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Most businesses hit by mobile security incident, study shows

  Almost 80% of businesses had a mobile security incident in the past year, in many cases incurring substantial costs, a study has shown

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Human error causes most data breaches, Ponemon study finds

  Human errors and system problems caused two-thirds of data breaches in 2012, according to a study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Backup and recovery challenges most small businesses, study shows

  Most small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are experiencing difficulties with data backup and recovery, a study has shown

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  UK authorities begin tackling pirate websites

  The City of London Police and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau have started contacting websites suspected of profiting by breaking copyright laws

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  A malicious charger could hack Apple devices easily, claim researchers

  A modified phone charger or battery could be used to hack Apple devices, say researchers from Georgia Tech

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Microsoft evolves disruption anti-cyber crime tactic

  Microsoft, like other major software suppliers, is increasingly using disruption as a key tactic to fight cyber crime

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Transparency, not security, is biggest cloud challenge, says Verizon

  Transparency is the biggest challenge to moving to cloud computing, not security, according to Verizon

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Targeted cyber espionage on the increase, McAfee warns

  The first three months of 2013 saw continued increases in the number and complexity of targeted threats, according to McAfee’s latest report

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Care home operator manages Apple estate with Absolute

  Software firm offers the right MDM solutions for LNT Group to manage a fleet of iPhones without needing individual iTunes accounts.

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  US military Plan X aims to make cyber war easy

  Top US military technologists have been working on a programme aimed at making cyber war relatively easy for the past year, it has emerged

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  BT to drop Yahoo email after hacking complaints

  BT is to replace Yahoo Mail with its own email service for its six million broadband customers after complaints about hijacked accounts

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  SAP delivers a boost to employment of people with autism

  Specialisterne, a social enterprise set up to help people with autism get into the workplace, has had a major breakthrough with SAP

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Microsoft and trustworthy computing – not a paradox

  Behind the scenes, Microsoft’s TwC group does a lot of work across security, cyber crime, threat intelligence and malware protection

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Case Study: US supermarket chain solves security challenge virtually

  A US supermarket chain has implemented an endpoint security system to secure legacy applications and to save additional development

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Drupal resets passwords after hacker breach

  Open source content management platform Drupal has reset the passwords for almost one million accounts after hackers breached its systems

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  More than half UK citizens worried about nation-state cyber attacks

  A survey has revealed that 53% of UK citizens are concerned about other countries launching damaging cyber attacks against the UK

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Attackers exploit Ruby on Rails flaw, despite warnings and patch

  Attackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails web application framework to hijack servers for botnets four months after a patch was released

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Google may have to revise proposals to EU competition authorities yet again

  Google may have to revise its proposals yet again to allay European concerns about its business practices

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Stratfor hacker pleads guilty

  US hacktivist Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to accessing computers of law enforcement agencies and government contractors illegally

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  UK masters students to help build online security and trust

  The UK national Cyber Security Challenge and 15 UK universities are calling on masters students for ideas on improving online security and trust

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Syrian hackers deface Sky Android apps

  Syrian hackers have defaced several of Sky’s Android apps, forcing the broadcaster to remove them temporarily from the Google Play store

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Chinese hackers accessed US weapons designs, says Pentagon

  Hackers are feared to have accessed more than 20 designs for advanced US weapons systems, according to a Pentagon report

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Economic future depends on e-ID, says Security Identity Alliance

  The digital economies of Europe could comprise 28% of GDP by 2020 but only with secure electronic IDs, says the Secure Identity Alliance (SIA)

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  UK data breaches largely hidden, says Stroz Friedberg

  The true extent of UK data breaches is unknown because most companies do not report them says Stroz Friedberg

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Blue Coat buys big data security company Solera

  Business assurance firm Blue Coat Systems announces it will buy big data security intelligence provider Solera Networks

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Small firms lose up to £800m to cyber crime, says FSB

  Cyber crime is costing small businesses around £785m a year, according to research by the Federation of Small Businesses

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Privileged accounts key to most APT attacks, says Cyber-Ark

  The theft, misuse and exploitation of privileged accounts is becoming an increasingly key tactic in advanced persistent threat attacks

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Researchers uncover Indian cyber espionage network

  Researchers have uncovered a large and sophisticated cyber attack infrastructure that appears to have originated in India

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Twitter uses open source to automate security

  Twitter is increasingly using open source automation tools to ensure security processes are taken care of in all the code it produces

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Case study: Princess Alice Hospice goes wireless

  The Princess Alice Hospice is awarded charity of the year by iWireless Solutions, winning a £20,000 wireless network installation from the firm

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Yahoo Japan says hack attack may have exposed 22 million users

  Yahoo Japan has warned that the identity details of up to 22 million users may have been compromised in recent hack

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  Shanghai cyber hacking unit back in business, says US

  China’s military cyber espionage Unit 61398 is back in business, deploying different techniques, say US officials

• May 20, 2013 20 May'13

  FT is latest media group attacked by Syrian hackers

  The Financial Times has confirmed that its website and several Twitter accounts were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Most IT environments immature, Microsoft reveals

  Most business IT environments are immature, analysis of data from Microsoft’s Cloud Security Readiness Tool has revealed

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  Supply chain key to comprehensive security, says Cisco

  A comprehensive security strategy must include the supply chain to deliver the integrity customers demand

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Accept defeat and change the battle plan, says Adobe security chief

  Security professionals are good at lying to themselves that they are evenly matched with their adversaries, says Adobe CSO Brad Arkin

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Adobe uses crises to drive security change

  After hackers broke into one of Adobe's code-signing servers in 2012, CSO Brad Arkin used the crisis to drive security change and improvement

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Microsoft declares conformance with ISO 27034-1

  Microsoft has declared conformance with ISO 27034-1, the first part of an international standard for secure software development

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  IT pros turn a blind eye to secure coding

  Nearly two-thirds of IT professionals say their organisations do not build products and services with security in mind, a Microsoft survey reveals

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  SAFECode publishes free secure code training modules

  The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode) has developed six free secure software development training modules

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Microsoft to patch IE8 zero-day

  Microsoft is to issue a security update for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8,just a week after issuing a security advisory

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Eight hackers charged with $45m cyber fraud

  US federal authorities have charged eight hackers in connection with a $45m debit card fraud scheme

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Carl Icahn and Southeastern join forces in fight over Dell

  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has teamed up with Dell investor Southeastern to try to stop founder Michael Dell buying the firm

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  Information assurance certification gives SMEs the edge

  IT consultancy Purple Frog Systems says the IASME information assurance standard for SMEs gives it a competitive edge

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  Solihull council saves time and money with BYOD

  At least one in five local authorities in the UK could allow staff to use their own devices at work, due to demand from employees

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  Syria back online after 19-hour blackout

  Syria is back online after a 19-hour blackout that disconnected it from internet communication with the rest of the world

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  UK universities get £7.5m cyber security research funding

  Oxford University and Royal Holloway, London University, will receive £7.5m government funding for cyber security research

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Spirit of snoopers’ charter lives on in Queen’s Speech

  The draft Communications Data Bill did not make the Queen’s Speech, but there was mention of proposals for investigating cyber crime

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  US is real hacking empire, says China

  China rejects the first official US accusations of cyber espionage and brands the US the “real hacking empire”, accusing it of sowing discord

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

  Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Syria hit by another apparent internet blackout

  Monitoring services have reported that internet access to Syria appears to have been cut off, and Google says traffic has dropped off

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Symantec helps NHS trust cut security costs by a quarter

  The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust cut security costs by 25% in its partnership with security supplier Symantec

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Microsoft issues security advisory on IE8 zero-day exploit

  Microsoft has published a security advisory about an exploit for zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  McAfee to acquire Stonesoft

  Intel’s security business McAfee has announced an agreement to acquire Finnish next-generation firewall firm Stonesoft in a $389m deal

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Windows 8 passes 100 million in sales

  Microsoft says Windows 8 OS has sold more than 100 million copies, roughly matching Windows 7 in the six months after launch

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  Netherlands considers hacking powers for police

  The Netherlands government considers legislation to give police powers to hack into computers, install spyware and read emails

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  BlackBerry 10 and Samsung Knox approved by US military

  The US Department of Defense (DoD) has approved BlackBerry and Samsung mobile devices for use on its networks

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Training may be key to website security, study shows

  WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report says vulnerabilities declined in the past year, but most sites had at least one vulnerability