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• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  What is new in PCI DSS V3?

  The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council has published the latest version of the data security standards

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Underperforming BPO under threat from software automation

  Business process outsourcing (BPO) fails to achieve business goals but automation software promises to free up resources

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance violates EU law, study finds

  Mass internet surveillance by US and UK intelligence agencies violates European law, according to a study by two academics

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Twitter shares up 73% on target for IPO

  Twitter’s shares closed on the first day of trading at $44.90, almost 73% higher than the company’s initial target of $26

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  UK intelligence heads defend mass surveillance operations

  Heads of the UK’s intelligence services insist all they do in term of mass surveillance is strictly within the confines of UK law

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Cognizant exceeds over 20% growth as non-linear sales accelerate

  IT services firm Cognizant has reported almost 22% sales growth in its latest three month business period as the double digit offshore-centric suppliers accelerate

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Microsoft zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than expected

  Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in the graphics component of several key Microsoft products more widely than was initially thought

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Fear of cyber attack driving a shift from risk-based security, says Gartner

  Fear of advanced cyber attacks is driving a shift from tried-and-tested risk-based security tactics, a survey has found

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Latest payment card security standard takes new approach

  The latest version of the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is aimed at making security part of “business as usual”

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Spy agency encryption cracking foolish, says web inventor

  Tim Berners-Lee has called for debate about “dysfunctional and unaccountable” supervision of US and UK intelligence agencies

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  Twitter IPO target sets value at $14.2bn

  Microblogging service Twitter is to make its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) debut at $26 a share on 7 November 2013, valuing it at $14.2bn

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Huawei invests $600m in 5G mobile R&D

  Network company Huawei has announced it will invest at least $600m in research and development for 5G technologies by 2018

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  UK trust in mobile apps low, Isaca report reveals

  Only 4% of UK consumers consider the makers of their mobile phone apps as the entity they most trust with personal data, a survey reveals

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Manufacturer Henkel outsources to transform IT service delivery

  Global manufacturer Henkel has expanded its global IT service delivery agreement with Unisys to transform how it delivers IT to its 38,000 global workforce

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  US government tops Apple customer data request list

  The US government tops the list of governments requesting customer data from Apple, according to the firm’s latest transparency report

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Microsoft warns of security flaw in key software products

  Microsoft has warned that hackers could exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the graphics component of key products to gain control of computers

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Free guide highlights legal pitfalls of enterprise collaboration

  Intralinks and Field Fisher Waterhouse have published a free guide to help enterprises share information without violating data protection laws

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  UK government behind mobile broadband, says Ed Vaizey

  Mobile broadband is one of the technologies that can see us through to a fully connected society, says communications minister Ed Vaizey

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  SQLi has long been unsolved, but has that finally changed?

  SQL injection (SQLi) attacks have remained unsolved for more than 15 years, but that could be about to change

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  (ISC)2 launches security credential for healthcare

  Information security body (ISC)2 has launched a certification for security practitioners in the healthcare industry

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Zurich Insurance Group to streamline finance IT

  Zurich Insurance Group has signed a five-year deal with Accenture to develop, implement and manage finance and business intelligence applications in multiple countries including the UK.

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Hacktivists deface Australian websites over spying reports

  Indonesian hacktivists have defaced Australian websites in response to reports that the Australian embassy was used for spying

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Payment card industry updates security

  PCI DSS council has published a list of approved point-to-point encryption systems for the payment card industry

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Information security still immature, RSA conference told

  In five years’ time the security industry will have matured into a data-driven profession, RSA conference told

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  BSI certifies first two CSA STAR cloud providers

  The BSI has certified the first two cloud service providers in the CSA Security, Trust and Assurance scheme

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Cabinet Office selects Steria to form £1bn government shared service

  The Cabinet Office is working with Steria to create a joint venture that will consolidate government back-office functions, in a deal worth up to £1bn

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Websense identifies info-harvesting profile on LinkedIn

  Security researchers have discovered a LinkedIn scam profile configured to gain intelligence on LinkedIn users

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  US tech firms call for NSA reforms

  Top technology firms have called for reforms to the US government’s internet surveillance programmes

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Threat info sharing tough, says RSA conference committee

  There is no quick fix to enabling cyber threat information sharing, says the European RSA Conference Programme Committee

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  ISG to publish report on global public sector IT outsourcing

  IT outsourcing market intelligence company ISG will soon release its first ever global public sector research report, reflecting the growing importance of the sector to the global outsourcing industry

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Olympic cyber security down to design and testing, says BT

  Cyber security at the London 2012 Olympic Games was based on principles of security by design and extensive testing, says BT

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Explosive IT outsourcing figures mask industry realignment

  The latest figures on global IT outsourcing sales from ISG reflect a realignment in IT services as they are bought in different ways

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Adobe admits hack hit 10 times more users than expected

  Adobe has revealed that a recent cyber attack compromised more than ten times the number of accounts initially reported

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  UKtech50 2013 - Vote for the most influential person in UK IT

  Who do you think is the most influential person in UK IT? Cast your vote for the UKtech50 list by choosing from our judges' shortlist of 50 leaders

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Google and Yahoo lash out over reports of NSA interception

  Google has expressed outrage while Yahoo has reiterated denials of complicity in response to reports that the NSA tapped into datacentre links

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Qualys launches security metrics project

  Security firm Qualys has launched a security metrics initiative at RSA Europe 2013 conference in Amsterdam

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Infosys to pay $35m to settle US visa fraud case

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys has agreed to pay $35m to settle a visa dispute with US authorities.

• 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 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Analysis: RSA says security needs to change, but what does that mean?

  RSA executive chairman Art Coviello has issued a call to action to the security industry to improve technology and collaboration

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Most businesses need to transform IT security, says RSA

  No modern network or IT system can withstand the onslaught of a skilled adversary, given focus and time, says Amit Yoran, general manager of RSA

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  CIO Interview: Ann-Marie Rafferty, head of IT, Access, on partnership models

  Ann-Marie Rafferty, who heads up IT for the partnership between Serco and Glasgow council, discusses strategic frameworks

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Analysis: What’s PCI DSS V3.0 all about?

  The latest version of PCI DSS is due for publication on 7 November, but what can merchants expect?

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Latest version of PCI DSS reaches final stages

  Around 500 global stakeholders are to meet this week to give the final community feedback on the next version of PCI DSS

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  NYSE tests systems ahead of Twitter IPO

  The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) says a weekend test run of Twitter's initial public offering was successful

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Cyber attack shuts down Israeli toll road tunnel

  A cyber attack has shut down a major link in Israel's national road network, experts claim

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Official PHP website confirms server compromise

  The official website for the PHP scripting language has confirmed that hackers compromised two of its servers

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games IT on track

  IT services firm Atos says implementation of IT systems to support the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year is on track

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Twitter sets share range to value firm at $11bn.

  Twitter has set a range of $17 to $20 for shares in its IPO in November, valuing the microblogging firm at $11bn

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Samsung reports record Q3 profits of £4.8bn

  Samsung has reported record third quarter profits of £4.8bn driven mainly by revenues from memory chips

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Microsoft shares up on strong Q3 results

  Microsoft shares rose 6% on third quarter earnings of $5.2bn, a 17% increase compared with the same period the year before

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Recruitment firm Adecco outsources for cloud-based IT

  Adecco is moving to cloud-based IT services with pay as you go pricing through a five-year outsourcing agreement with BT Business

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Thales launches critical infrastructure cyber security lab

  Thales has set up a cyber security lab dedicated to help improve the security of critical national infrastructure, government and business

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Naming authority Icann announces internet domains in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic

  Internet naming authority Icann has announced four non-Latin generic top-level domains in Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic scripts

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Facebook to trial warnings for extreme content

  Facebook is to trial warning messages on extreme content after an outcry over its decision to lift a ban on beheading videos

• 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 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Security finally able to enable business, says Voltage

  New security technologies are finally making it easier for security to enable the business and drive value, says Voltage Security

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Time to review cyber trust, says ICSPA

  The world needs to reset the clock on trust after Snowden's revelations on US internet surveillance, says ICSPA

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  US publishes draft cyber security framework

  The US has published a draft framework of voluntary cyber security standards aimed at reducing risks to critical national infrastructure

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Google to release two-factor security token

  Google is planning a two-factor authentication token, the firm’s principal engineer has confirmed

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  IT security a new challenge post Snowden, ISSE conference told

  Business is facing a new challenge in securing data in a post Edward Snowden era, ISSE 2013 conference told

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Computer science needs business and people skills, says professor

  Universities need to broaden teaching of computer science if the mismatch between graduate skills and business IT requirements grows.

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  NCA begins major cyber recruitment campaign

  The UK’s new National Crime Agency (NCA) has begun a major recruitment drive for cyber crime fighters and intelligence officers

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Europe sees huge outsourcing surge

  The third quarter of 2013 saw the highest number of IT outsourcing contracts ever signed in Europe, says ISG

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  UK must legislate on critical cyber security, says ViaSat

  The UK must set rules for the cyber security of critical national infrastructure, says chief of communications firm ViaSat UK

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Microsoft withdraws faulty Windows RT 8.1 update for Surface tablets

  Microsoft has widthdrawn its Windows 8.1 update for Surface RT tablets after some users reported system crashes

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  China no longer top source of cyber attacks

  Indonesia has overtaken China as the top source of cyber attacks, according to a report by Akamai

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  US researchers find 25 security vulnerabilities in SCADA systems

  US researchers have identified 25 zero-day vulnerabilities in industrial control SCADA software from 20 suppliers that is used to control critical infrastructure systems

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Huawei denies government influence and calls for cyber security standards

  Huawei has reiterated denials of government influence and called for common international cyber security standards

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  Google share price at record high on third quarter results

  Google’s share price has hit a record high in response to better-than-expected third quarter results

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  New tech a top security challenge, says Isaca CEO

  A top challenge facing information security professionals is the multiple points of entry created by new technologies, says Ron Hale, acting CEO of Isaca

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  UK calls for open internet to spur economic growth

  The UK has called for an open and borderless internet at the opening ceremony of the Seoul Conference on Cyberspace 2013 in South Korea

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  DDoS attacks more than treble in the past year, report reveals

  The number of DDoS attacks over 20Gbps so far this year is more than three times greater than for the whole of 2012 data shows

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Dexter payment card malware variant hits South Africa

  The Dexter payment card skimming malware discovered last year has resurfaced in South Africa, resulting in millions of pounds lost to fraud

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform

  Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Enterprises struggle with security challenge of BYOD, study shows

  Organisations are struggling to solve the security problems created by personal devices accessing corporate data, a study has revealed

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Neustar to host first DDoS awareness day

  Communications firm Neustar is to host the first international awareness day on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Intel profits dip as glitch delays Broadwell chip

  Intel profits dipped after it announced that production of its next-generation PC chip, Broadwell, will be delayed by a quarter

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  OFT launches investigation into public sector IT supply

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a formal study into the supply of IT products and services to the public sector

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  The ICO issues BYOD warning after breach

  The ICO is calling on organisations to ensure data protection policies reflect how employees are using personal devices for work

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  UK businesses call for support to close virtual security skills gap

  Most UK businesses want to see virtual security guidelines put in place to help organisations understand best practice

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  D-Link begins fixing router backdoor

  D-Link has begun releasing security patches to close the backdoor discovered on some of its routers

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  BT, GCHQ and NCA set challenge to find UK cyber defenders

  BT, GCHQ and the National Crime Agency (NCA) join forces to test finalists in this year's Cyber Security Challenge UK

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  McAfee exposes scope of digitally funded crime extends to contract killings

  Virtual currencies are being used for a very wide range of crime – including contract killings – says a report by security firm McAfee

• 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 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Skype under investigation over link to NSA

  Skype is under investigation by Luxembourg's data protection authorities over links with the NSA's Prism surveillance programme

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Richard Horne joins PwC’s cyber practice

  Richard Horne, former managing director of cyber security at Barclays Bank, is joining PwC's cyber security practice

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Infosys reports strong sales but profits fall due to cash reserved for Visa dispute

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys increased sales in its latest financial quarter, but profits fell as it put money aside to cover costs of visa dispute

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Facebook will not allow anyone to hide

  Facebook is removing a privacy setting that enabled people to hide their profiles from the social networking site’s search function

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  NCA notches up first phishing conviction

  The National Crime Agency (NCA) Cyber Crime Unit has notched up its first conviction of a phishing offender after an investigation

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Top tech firms plan cross-platform cookie alternatives

  Microsoft, Google and other top tech firms are planning cookie alternatives to improve their ability to track users

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Legitimate users of Tor need not worry, says NCA

  The National Crime Agency (NCA) says criminals cannot hide on the internet, but legitimate business users of anonymity software Tor are safe

• 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 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Blackhole and Cool exploit kit suspect arrested

  Russian police have arrested a man suspected of creating the Blackhole and Cool exploit kits

• 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 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  US set to ban Samsung products

  Some older Samsung devices are set to be banned in the US in the latest round of patent battles with US rival Apple

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  NCA investigates “deep web” after UK Silk Road arrests

  The UK National Crime Agency is investigating hidden internet operations after UK Silk Road arrests

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Pro-Palestinian hacktivists hit security sites

  Pro-Palestinian hacktivists have attacked the websites of two IT security firms and a mobile messaging service

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Cyber crimes costs UK businesses average of £3m per year

  Cyber crime costs UK organisations around £3m a year on average a study has revealed

• 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