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• 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 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Espionage the goal of cyber attacks on South Korea, say researchers

  The cyber attack that took South Korean broadcasters and banks offline in March was part of a covert espionage campaign, says McAfee

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Privacy International challenges US and UK internet spying

  Lobby group Privacy International has filed a legal challenge to internet surveillance programmes by US and UK intelligence agencies

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Bob Harris, CTO, Channel 4 - on big data

  C4 is using big data to gain insight into audience behaviour but CTO Bob Harris says it is difficult to analyse data before you know its value

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  McAfee completes Stonesoft acquisition

  Intel-owned McAfee has completed its acquisition of Finnish firewall firm Stonesoft in a $389m deal announced in May

• 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

  Apple phishing attacks up, warns Kaspersky Lab

  Spam emails with links to fraudulent websites are increasing as the theft of Apple IDs and credit card information escalates

• 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 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  MoD teams up with defence firms for cyber security

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) joins nine large defence and telecoms companies to strengthen the UK’s cyber security

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Rangers FC get Wi-Fi from Huawei

  Scottish football club Glasgow Rangers kits out its Ibrox stadium with Huawei technology to bring Wi-Fi to fans and visitors

• 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 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Yahoo acquires smart email service Xobni

  Yahoo buys smart email service Xobni, hot on the heels of another multimillion dollar deal for Qwiki, maker of an iPhone short movie app

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Indonesian student wins global Kaspersky Lab security competition

  An entry from Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology has won the Kaspersky Lab Cyber Security for the Next Generation 2013 competition

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  UK to look to army reserves for cyber security specialists

  Army reservists will become specialists in cyber security as part of an overhaul announced by defence secretary Philip Hammond

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Microsoft unveils prototype 3D touchcreen

  Microsoft is working on a 3D touchscreen that enables users to 'feel' through tactile feedback and manipulate images

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Yahoo acquires short movie app maker Qwiki

  Yahoo has made another acquisition aimed at bolstering its position in the mobile space as part of efforts to regain lost market share

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Assassin’s Creed developer hacked, exposing user details

  Ubisoft is the latest computer games company to be hacked, with usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords compromised

• 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

  Collaboration key to malware success, says Microsoft

  Collaborative malware is one of the latest techniques cyber attackers are using to ensure their malicious programs cannot be removed

• 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 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Google another step closer to EC action over business practices

  Google is a step closer to punitive action by the European Commission after complainants rejected its latest set of proposals to allay concerns about its business practices

• 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

  UK hit by 70 cyber espionage campaigns a month, says GCHQ

  GCHQ director confirms the government is targeted by some 70 sophisticated cyber espionage campaigns every month

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  The Washington Post reveals more details of NSA Prism programme

  The Washington Post has published new slides detailing processes in the US Prism online surveillance system

• July 01, 2013 01 Jul'13

  Seven Saudi social media activists jailed

  Seven men have been jailed in Saudi Arabia for using Facebook and other social media to encourage anti-government protests

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  UK leads calls for internet era tax laws

  The UK is calling for international tax rules to be brought up to date for the internet world to stop tax evasion by firms like Google and Amazon

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  NSA allowed to collect US email records, secret documents reveal

  The National Security Agency (NSA) collected internet and email records of US citizens for more than 10 years, documents reveal

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  Uefa considers BYOD policy for Euro 2016

  Uefa is considering a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy for its 7,000 volunteers during Euro 2016 to save costs on IT devices

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  Is the time for antivirus software past?

  Since the appearance of malware in the 1970s, adoption of antivirus (AV) software has steadily grown, but is it time to move on?

• 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

  Microsoft reverses Xbox One game restrictions

  Microsoft has reversed its controversial decision to impose restrictions on pre-owned games for its latest Xbox One console

• 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

  Grass Roots Group extends Google roll-out with Play apps

  Grass Roots Group (GRG) is among a number of organisations expanding its Google deployment with apps from the Play marketplace

• 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

  Data theft by web scraping often overlooked, says Sentor

  Web scraping is a common form of data theft that is often overlooked by businesses, says security firm Sentor

• 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

  Turkish protesters make innovative use of technology

  Turkish anti-government protesters are making innovative use of technology to stay ahead of the authorities

• 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 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Apple faces possible US sales ban on older iPad and iPhone models

  As the International Trade Commission rules Apple infringed a Samsung patent, some older iPad and iPhone models could face a US sales ban

• 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 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  France drops controversial anti-piracy penalty

  France has decided to end its controversial policy of cutting off suspected pirates from the internet

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Zynga to cut staff by 18% as losses loom

  Social gaming firm Zynga plans to cut 520 jobs in the face of greater losses than previously estimated

• 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

  Google ordered to comply with FBI data demands

  A US judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI demands for customer data, despite ruling previously that such demands were unconstitutional

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Apple to defend against e-book price fixing charges

  Apple is set to begin its defence against US government charges that it colluded with publishers to fix the prices of e-books

• 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

  Movie FX shop adds Avere NAS acceleration to BlueArc scale-out NAS

  Video effects specialist Image Engine adds Avere NAS acceleration to provide high-performance cache while retaining BlueArc clustered NAS arrays as bulk storage

• May 31, 2013 31 May'13

  Google sets seven-day deadline for zero-day disclosure

  Google has set third-party suppliers a seven-day deadline for disclosing vulnerabilities in software to help users protect themselves from attack

• 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

  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