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• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Syrian hacktivists down New York Times website

  The New York Times believed to have been targeted by a hacktivist group that supports Syrian president Bashar al-Assad

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Many firms vulnerable to Java 6 flaw, warns Qualys

  Many firms are at risk of cyber attacks exploiting an unpatched security flaw in Java 6, warns security firm Qualys

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Government leaders lack tech knowledge, says US cyber expert

  Many government leaders are not informed and familiar with technology, says director and chief economist at the US Cyber Consequences Unit

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Security must be part of digital reform, says Thales

  The arrest of a man believed to have collected more than £100,000 in fraudulent UK tax rebates shows that security must be part of digital reform, says security firm Thales

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Amazon datacentre glitch hits top web services

  A hardware failure at Amazon datacentre downs several web services, renewing concerns about the reliability of cloud-based infrastructure

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Five cyber attackers arrested over UK tax fraud

  Five men have been arrested in connection with an HMRC investigation into cyber attackers suspected of identity theft and tax fraud

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire

  Microsoft announces CEO Steve Ballmer is to retire within 12 months and that its board has begun looking for a successor

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  London council gets £70,000 penalty for data breach

  The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) serves Islington Council with penalty of £70,000 for releasing over 2,000 residents’ details online

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding drive fails to raise target $32m

  After breaking the record for crowdfunding, a drive to raise $32m for the Ubuntu Edge smartphone has failed to meet its target

• August 23, 2013 23 Aug'13

  Nasdaq shutdown raises security fears

  A software glitch that caused the Nasdaq stock exchange to shut down raises fears over stock market stability and cyber attacks

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  US publishes revealing review on NSA surveillance

  The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court finds the NSA's email and data programme illegal, a declassified 2011 opinion ruling reveals

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Security Think Tank: 3 keys to effective cyber security

  The rapid rise in cyber espionage highlights the need to rethink data security strategies to improve protection of intellectual property. But what is the best way of doing that?

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  Charlie McMurdie joins PwC’s cyber practice

  Charlie McMurdie, former head of the Metro Police central e-crime unit, is joining business consultancy firm PwC as its senior crime adviser

• August 22, 2013 22 Aug'13

  HP revenue growth unlikely in 2014, says CEO Meg Whitman

  HP reports revenues of $27.2bn for the quarter ending 31 July 2013, down 8% compared with the same period the year before

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Android mobile malware rebounds in Q2, reports McAfee

  Android-based malware has grown 35% in the second quarter, according to the latest threat report from security firm McAfee

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Legal news website Groklaw closes because of US surveillance

  Legal news website Groklaw has closed because founder Pamela Jones says it cannot operate under current US surveillance policies

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Yahoo appoints UK TV executive Dawn Airey to run European operation

  Internet firm Yahoo names UK TV executive Dawn Airey to replace EMEA senior vice-president Rich Riley

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Facebook leads mission to connect the world

  Facebook is to join forces with several top tech companies to connect as many parts of the world to the internet as possible

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Enterprise data security still possible, say industry partners

  Novell, Kyocera and NetIQ have joined forces to demonstrate that reliable enterprise data security is achievable in the mobile era

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  (ISC)² expands UK exam centres to 33 locations

  Information security certification body (ISC)² expands network of test centres for computerised exams through partnership with Pearson VUE

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Cloud revenues to touch $20bn by 2016 with PaaS as the fastest growing segment

  Cloud computing sector will grow at a pace of 36% every year and its revenues will fall just shy of $20bn (£12.7bn) by 2016

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Cyber Security Challenge UK embraces Raspberry Pi

  An innovative simulated cyber battle at the weekend saw six candidates move to the next round in the Cyber Security Challenge UK

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  LinkedIn opens up to younger users

  Professional networking service LinkedIn has announced it is to lower the 18 age limit for users to enable young people to plan their careers

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  EU data breach disclosures to be enforced soon

  The new European Union regulation requiring mandatory personal data breach disclosures by telcos and ISPs comes into force on 25 August 2013

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Cyber attack could be next shock to UK banks, warns KPMG

  Cyber attack or disruption could cause the next systemic shock to the UK banking industry, warns KPMG

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Georgia Tech researchers sneak malicious app past Apple checks

  Researchers claim to have found a way of hiding malicious code in apps from Apple’s app review and code-signing mechanisms

• August 19, 2013 19 Aug'13

  Google claims it is not subject to UK privacy laws

  Google claims it is not subject to UK law in an attempt to quash legal action by UK iPhone users, angry over privacy breaches

• August 09, 2013 09 Aug'13

  CSC bags start-up for big data services

  IT services supplier CSC has acquired big data software platform provider Infochimps to speed up the development of its data service platform

• August 06, 2013 06 Aug'13

  Capita and Barnet deal to be completed after campaigner’s court appeal fails

  Outsourcing contracts worth over £470m will be signed off by Barnet Council after a Court of Appeal ruled that the deal was lawful

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Ken Brill, datacentre visionary and founder of Uptime Institute passes away

  Kenneth Brill, the datacentre innovator and founder of Uptime Institute has passed away at the age of 68

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Attackers are in the network, now what?

  If attackers are inside the network, can disguise themselves and get close to sensitive corporate data, how can data be defended?

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Cloud service providers often not set up for incident response

  Cloud data storage and disparate privacy laws could be hampering companies fighting cyber attacks, warns security investigator

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  UK graduates arrive in India for Wipro internships

  UK engineering graduates have arrived in India to start a nine-month internship with IT services giant Wipro

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Pressure mounts on Soca to name hacker companies

  Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) comes under pressure to reveal UK firms that employed hackers to gather information

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  UK and US collaborating on cyber weapons, says Snowden

  The US and UK intelligence agencies are collaborating on cyber weapons, according to documents released by Edward Snowden

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  CSC tells redundant staff to train their replacements

  IT services firm CSC has been slammed by union Unite for making redundant staff train the offshore workers who will replace them

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  TCS and Computacenter most satisfying IT services firms in UK

  Research has revealed that 85% of UK businesses are satisfied with their IT services agreements

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  Security services vital to support cloud, say 59% of IT managers

  Over half of UK IT managers say security as a service is necessary to support the roll out and management of cloud technologies, survey shows

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  Cloud contracts poor on security, says Gartner

  Buyers of commercial cloud services are finding security provisions inadequate, says analyst organisation Gartner

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  iOS 7 to protect against charger-based hacks of Apple devices

  Apple's latest iOS 7 beta release includes a security update to protect its mobile devices from hacks using a modified phone charger or battery

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  Facebook shares climb back to flotation level

  Facebook shares have briefly broken through the $38 flotation level for the first time since the company’s disastrous initial public offering

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  New threat portal pegs DDoS attacks at 2,570 a day

  More than 2,500 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks take place every day worldwide, according to Arbor Networks’ Atlas Threat Portal

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Pinewood Studios slashes backup and recovery times

  Pinewood Studios Group has slashed its backup and recovery times and achieved robust data protection through server virtualisation

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  MPs call for hacker users to be exposed

  MPs are calling for the publication of a list of companies that used private investigators suspected of using hacking methods to gather information

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  Syrian hacktivists target Thompson Reuters

  Thompson Reuters has confirmed it is the latest media organisation to have its Twitter account hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA)

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  DDoS attacks up in size, speed and complexity, study finds

  DDoS attacks continue to be a global threat with a clear increase in attack size, speed and complexity, a study shows

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  ICO to investigate sale of online dating profiles

  The UK’s data protection watchdog is to investigate the sale of 10,000 online dating profiles to the BBC’s Panorama programme

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  UK invests £850m in tackling cyber threats

  The UK government is to invest more than £850m to develop and maintain cutting-edge capabilities to tackle cyber threats

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Continual vigilance key to security, says Damballa

  UK businesses must update their approach to cyber security to look for signs of compromise continually

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Gartner fires warning to offshore suppliers

  Gartner warns offshore IT providers without a cloud strategy that they will struggle to compete with large multinational suppliers

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Google Play still riddled with malicious apps, says Symantec

  The Google Play app store for Android remains riddled with malicious apps despite efforts to clean it up, says Symantec

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Microsoft launches UK child porn warning

  Microsoft introduces pop-up warnings for people in the UK who use its Bing search engine to look for images of child sex abuse

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  High Court gags UK scientist who cracked car security codes

  The High Court has banned UK scientist Flavio Garcia from publishing a paper on how he cracked car security codes

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  FireEye partners with Phishme for multi-layered security

  Security technology developer FireEye has partnered with phishing awareness training firm PhishMe to offer a multi-layered approach to securing information networks

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Symantec Web Gateway flaw enables hacker surveillance

  Security flaws in Symantec’s Web Gateway appliance expose users to surveillance of all internet activities, says SEC Consult

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Business support security spending set to rise, survey shows

  Information security spending in support of the business is expected to rise, according to a survey from GDS International

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Five hackers charged with $300m card fraud

  US prosecutors have charged five men with hacking and credit card fraud that cost companies at least $300m

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Amazon declares $7m loss due to operating costs

  Online retailer Amazon has reported a second quarter loss of $7m, despite a 22% rise in sales to $15.7bn

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  MI5 and GCHQ call for FTSE 350 cyber health check

  Intelligence agencies MI5 and GCHQ call on UK’s top listed companies to take part in a cyber governance health check

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Targeted cyber attacks cost up to £1.6m

  Targeted cyber attacks could cost enterprises up to £1.6m, a survey has revealed

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Germany calls for new global online privacy charter

  German government officials are calling for a new global charter to safeguard privacy online in the wake of revelations about the US Prism surveillance programme

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Retailers fail to face up to online fraud, survey shows

  One in five retailers is not taking online fraud seriously enough, the latest Retail Fraud Survey from Martec International shows

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Lakeland warns customers of potential data breach

  Lakeland is warning of a potential data breach after a “sophisticated and sustained attack” exploited a recently-identified Java flaw

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Capita IT staff strike over pay as profits rise 10%

  IT workers at Capita will strike on Friday 26 July 2013 in protest at a below-inflation pay rise as the supplier's profits increase 10%

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Syrian hacktvists hit second mobile app in a week

  A Syrian hacktivist group has hacked into systems behind the Viber mobile app in the second such attack in a week

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  Lax FTSE 350 cyber security puts UK at risk, says KPMG

  Cyber leaks at FTSE 350 firms are putting the UK’s economic growth and national security at risk, says business consultancy firm KPMG

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Cisco buys cyber security company Sourcefire for $2.7bn

  Networking giant Cisco has reached an agreement to buy cyber security business Sourcefire in a $2.7bn deal

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Lack of IT and procurement skills puts Fire Service project at risk

  The programme that replaced the disastrous FiReControl project is in trouble due to a lack of IT and procurement skills

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  European outsourcing plummets despite strong BPO sales

  The total amount spent on outsourcing in EMEA in the second quarter of 2013 was 23% lower than in the same period of 2012

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Atos told to improve disability benefits tests

  The accuracy of tests to determine whether people are able to claim disability benefits has been questioned following a report

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Survey reveals true global cost of cyber attacks

  Cyber crime and espionage costs between $300bn and $1tn in annual global losses, a study has revealed

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Millions of mobiles vulnerable to Sim security flaw

  A newly discovered vulnerability in mobile Sim cards could allow hackers to access text messages, voicemail and location data

• July 23, 2013 23 Jul'13

  Web app attacks demand automated defences, study finds

  Automation is the most effective way to tackle multiple prolonged cyber attacks on web applications, a study has confirmed

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  Insider threat: Balancing security with privacy

  How can organisations increase security without affecting productivity or encroaching on employees’ right to privacy?

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  UK organisations increasing IT services investment

  Spending on IT services in the UK looks set to see a significant increase this year following a spate of mega-deals

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  Apple overhauls developer systems after hack

  Apple is overhauling its developer systems and its developer website is still down after hackers tried to steal developer personal details

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  Hack exposes details of nearly two million Ubuntu Forum users

  The Ubuntu Forum website has been taken down after attackers defaced the homepage and accessed the details of 1,820,000 users

• July 22, 2013 22 Jul'13

  UK to block online porn by default

  The UK is to block online pornography by default to all new internet users, David Cameron is to announce

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Technology firms appeal to Obama over Prism scandal

  A technology industry alliance has appealed to President Obama for greater transparency to reduce the harm of links to Prism

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Google fails to meet estimates under mobile pressure

  Google reported $14.11bn revenues for the quarter ended 30 June 2013, a 19% increase on 2012 but below $14.4bn estimates

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Remote access a priority for latest Oracle patch update

  The vulnerabilities that allow for remote unauthenticated access should be a priority for administrators applying the latest Oracle Critical Patch Update

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Microsoft takes $900m hit on Surface RT

  Microsoft has reported net income of $4.97bn on revenues of $19.9bn for the quarter ending 30 June 2013

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Government agrees to review Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Centre

  The UK government is to conduct a review of Huawei’s Cyber Security Evaluation Centre to ensure the right measures to protect UK telecommunications

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Google competition proposals not good enough, says EC

  Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia wants Google to readdress fears that it is abusing its market domination for its own gain

• July 18, 2013 18 Jul'13

  Intel Q2 profits down, but in line with expectations

  Chip maker Intel reported a second quarter profit of $2bn, down 29% from a year ago, roughly in line with analysts’ estimates

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  GCHQ’s use of Prism not illegal, MPs find

  Allegations that GCHQ circumvented UK law by using the US Prism programme are unfounded, says intelligence and security committee

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Tech firms target piracy profiting websites

  Tech firms including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft join an initiative targeting websites that profit from piracy by cutting off advert revenue

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Tumblr issues security update for iPhone and iPad app

  Tumblr has released a security update to the iOS version of its app to fix a flaw that allowed passwords to be compromised

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  Yahoo wins legal fight on Prism documents

  Yahoo has won the fight to have papers from a key 2008 court case declassified and published in a bid for greater transparency about the US Prism internet surveillance programme

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  G-Cloud key to government SME spending target

  G-Cloud is key to channeling 25% of central government spending through SMEs by 2015, says Mark Smitham, principal cyber security advisor

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  Public cloud secure, G-Cloud conference told

  Public cloud is more secure than any private cloud is likely to be says Richard Sykes, chair of the Cloud Industry Forum

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  More than one-fifth of UK firms hit by DDoS attacks in 2012

  More than a fifth of UK firms experienced a disruptive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in 2012

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  UK defence industry to fast-track supply chain security

  The UK’s Defence Cyber Protection Partnership seeks to implement controls to quickly increase supply chain security

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Black market for software security flaws reaches new highs

  The black market in previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in commercial software is so established that the average flaw sells for up to $160,000

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Mark Ridley, Reed.co.uk

  His track record as director of technology at Reed.co.uk shows that Mark Ridley is not afraid to take unconventional decisions

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  UK police use powers to seize personal data at borders

  UK police are using counter-terrorism laws to seize the mobile phones of people entering the UK and download personal data

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  US attempts to blocks plans for tax crackdown internet firms

  US officials are reportedly attempting to block plans for international tax rules aimed at tax avoidance by firms such as Google and Amazon

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Germany to push for better internet data protection

  Germany wants internet firms to be more transparent about how they are using personal data, says chancellor Angela Merkel

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  What McAfee's acquisition of Stonesoft means for the companies and their customers

  Computer Weekly looks at what McAfee's acquisition of Stonesoft means for the companies and their customers

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  ICO issues £200,000 penalty for failed IT disposal

  The Information Commissioner’s Office penalises NHS Surrey with a £200,000 fine for leaving patient data on discarded PCs