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• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Top 10 cyber crime stories of 2013

  Cyber crime featured heavily in security news coverage in 2013, with cyber criminals and cyber law enforcers upping their games with each passing month

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Software acquisition is risk acquisition, says industry panel

  New software often means new security vulnerabilities, panel tells the (ISC)2 Security Congress 2013

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  NSA reveals how Snowden accessed secret Prism files

  Prism whistleblower Edward Snowden accessed secret documents through a file-share, the NSA has revealed

• September 16, 2013 16 Sep'13

  Risk assessment key to cloud adoption, says Isaca

  There is mass confusion among small and medium businesses about cloud computing, says Amar Singh, chair of Isaca UK

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Most websites could be targeted through PHP, warns Imperva

  Hackers are focusing on vulnerabilities in PHP web application development platform, threatening most websites, warns Imperva

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Lloyds website continuity hit as TSB launches

  Lloyds Banking Group websites, including the new standalone TSB, have been hit by problems on TSB launch day

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Disinfecting PCs false security, says security expert

  Many companies proud of their ability to identify and clean malware infected machines are missing a trick, says veteran security expert

• 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

  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 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

  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 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  OpenCorporates makes company data public

  Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Yahoo wants Fisa objections revealed

  Yahoo is the latest company implicated in the Prism internet surveillance programme to call for more transparency around its involvement

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Icahn wants judge to appraise Dell buyout offer

  Billionaire US investor Carl Icahn says he will go to court to get a better price for his stake in the computer manufacturer Dell

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Microsoft notches up over 3,000 copyright cases

  In its battle against piracy, Microsoft says it has settled 3,265 copyright cases in the past year and warns of links to malware distribution

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Will cloud services follow the evolution of the banking industry?

  Cloud service providers say security will become the very reason companies choose cloud services in future

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  UK takes cyber threats to infrastructure seriously

  The UK is taking seriously potential cyber threats to critical national infrastructure, according to GCHQ head Iain Lobban

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Tougher EU penalties for cyber crime not enough, say security experts

  The European Parliament has adopted a draft directive to toughen up EU penalties for cyber crime, but security experts say this is not enough on its own

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Security Think Tank: Prism unlikely to change much

  Does the data collected by Prism put the US Government at risk from other state or non-state sponsored activists?

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  UK joins EU demands for Google to rewrite privacy policy

  The UK’s privacy watchdog has joined data protection authorities in France, Spain, Germany and Italy in demanding changes to Google’s privacy policy

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  NSA Prism scandal could hit US cloud providers, says EC vice-president

  EC vice-president Neelie Kroes says US cloud services providers could lose business because of fears over US Prism surveillance programme

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  FBI warns of increased spear phishing attacks

  The FBI has issued a warning about an increase in spear-phishing attacks targeting multiple industry sectors

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Security Think Tank: Prism – Sitting duck or elaborate honeypot?

  Does the data collected by Prism put the US Government at risk from other state or non-state sponsored activists?

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Senior MPs flout EU cookie law

  Two years after the EU cookie regulation and UK law came into force, not all UK websites are compliant, including the sites of 13 senior MPs

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  Stuxnet leak investigation leads to project originator

  The US government investigation into Stuxnet leak of classified information leads to retired general in the Marines, James Cartwright

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  Scottish police outsource system to Accenture

  Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland have chosen Accenture to maintain its i6 administration system after two-year tendering process

• 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 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 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

  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 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Serco outsources IT infrastructure and transformation

  Business service provider Serco contracts SunGard for its UK IT infrastructure that will help Serco increase its cloud services

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Senior judge hears Barnet Council outsourcing challenge

  The second most senior judge in England and Wales will hear a legal challenge against Barnet Council’s outsourcing programme

• 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 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 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

• 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

  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 22, 2013 22 May'13

  O2 questions CWU redundancy claims as union threatens action

  Mobile operator O2 questions Communication Workers Union (CWU) claim of 600 redundancies in outsourcing deal with Capita

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  O2 selects Capita for 10-year customer service outsource

  Mobile operator O2 is outsourcing management of its customer services centres to Capita in a 10-year deal expected to be worth about £1.2bn