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• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Web app security fixes down to 11 days in 2013

  Suppliers of web apps improved the rate of delivery for security fixes in 2013, but still take 11 days on average

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Zeus variant by-passing security, say researchers

  A variant of the data-stealing Zeus Trojan best known for targeting online banking uses a new technique to bypass security systems.

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Hackers access Yahoo Mail with stolen passwords

  Yahoo has revealed that hackers have tried to access some Yahoo Mail accounts with stolen passwords

• January 31, 2014 31 Jan'14

  Amazon shares fall despite strong Q4 results

  Amazon reported record revenues of $25.6bn in the fourth quarter of 2013, up 20% on the previous year, but below analyst expectations

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Information security salaries set to rise in 2014

  Salaries for information security professionals are set to rise across the board in 2014 as demand increases

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Argos seeks new recruits for digital hub

  Argos has opened a ‘digital hub’ in London which will focus on creating more agile and flexible ways of working

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Alleged SpyEye mastermind pleads guilty to fraud

  The alleged mastermind of the SpyEye banking Trojan has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in a US court

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Hacktivists hit Angry Birds website after spying claims

  Hacktivists have attacked the wesbite of Angry Birds maker Rovio over UK and US spying revelations

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Facebook reports record quarter driven by mobile sales

  A record fourth quarter for Facebook has proved the firm can tap into the rapidly growing mobile market

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  UK Eurozone suppliers can no longer ignore Sepa standard

  UK suppliers to Eurozone businesses risk losing customers if they cannot take payment using the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) standard

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Morrisons’ online executive resigns only weeks into the job

  George Dymond, who was hired by Morrisons to handle its online retail initiative, has given notice just weeks after joining the team

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Cyber security quest strong in UK, says Isaca

  There is a strong interest in cyber security in the UK, says Rob Stroud, international president-elect for Isaca

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Angry Birds maker wants industry response to mobile app spying

  Angry Birds maker to re-evaluate its relationship with ad networks after revelations that spy agencies can access user data

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Yahoo shares down after disappointing fourth quarter

  Yahoo’s share price dropped 5% on disappointing fourth quarter financial results

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Privacy considered a shared responsibility, survey shows

  Users of online services believe responsibility for privacy is shared by governments, technology suppliers and individuals, a survey has revealed

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Transparency deal fails to meet all surveillance demands

  Tech firms win greater transparency on government data requests, but no reductions in how much is collected

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  FBI cracks down on hacker-for-hire websites

  The FBI has arrested five people in connection with several websites offering hacking services

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Apple shares down on flat profits

  Apple share fell almost 9% in after-hours trading despite reporting record quarterly revenue of $57.6bn for the quarter ending 28 December 2013

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Security basics overlooked, says Heathrow CISO

  Data security is complex, but the basics are often overlooked says Mark Jones, chief information security officer at Heathrow Airports Limited

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Google acquires UK startup DeepMind

  Google has acquired London-based UK startup DeepMind in a deal reportedly worth $400m

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  NSA involved in industrial espionage, says Snowden

  The US National Security Agency’s cyber surveillance is not confined to matters of national security, says whistleblower Edward Snowden

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  CNN latest target of Syrian hacktivists

  CNN is the latest western media organisation believed to have been targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacktivist group

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Target cyber attack not isolated, warns FBI

  The FBI has warned US retailers to prepare for further cyber attacks after linking Target cyber attack to 20 others

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Microsoft shares up on better than expected results

  Microsoft's shares rose nearly 4% on news of better than expected financial results for the quarter ending 31 December 2013

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  New Snapchat security measure easily by-passed, says researcher

  A new Snapchat security measure to verify users are human is easily by-passed, says researcher

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  US startup aims to turn tables on hackers

  US startup Shape Security is turning the tables against hackers by using one of their own techniques against them

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  CERT-UK to drive international cyber security collaboration

  The UK’s new national computer emergency response team (CERT-UK) is set to drive international cyber security collaboration once it becomes operational

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  European experts divided on success of cyber security

  European IT security experts are divided on the success of cyber security, it emerged at the 6th International Forum on Cyber Security in Lille

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Global approach vital to fight cyber threats, says French minister

  Only a global approach will be able to counter the global threats in cyberspace, says French interior minister

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  Businesses accelerate Sepa migrations

  Figures from the European Central Bank (ECB) reveal more businesses are becoming Sepa compliant

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  Tech firms lobby to keep open tax avoidance loopholes

  Big US tech firms are lobbying the OECD not to close tax loopholes they exploit to pay less tax in the UK and elsewhere

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  NHS England database raises privacy concerns

  Privacy groups have raised concerns about NHS England’s plans to create a single database of medical data

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  US telecoms companies say proposed NSA reforms fall short

  US telecoms firms are unhappy about president Barack Obama’s proposed reforms to the NSA's mass collection of US phone data

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Enterprise can learn from small business security, says Avira

  Businesses needs to rethink their approach to security and focus on people instead of technology in the face of the consumerisation of IT, says security firm Avira

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  BCS launches cyber awareness initiative

  National cyber awareness that will ultimately support the UK’s digital economy is the aim of the latest initiative by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  Google fails in first attempt to block UK privacy case

  Google has failed to block attempts by UK users to sue the company for bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser to track online behaviour

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  NSA harvested 200 million texts a day, investigation finds

  The NSA is capable of collecting and storing almost 200 million text messages a day from around the world, say reports

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Net neutrality rule unconstitutional, says US court

  A US court rules that a principle preventing broadband providers blocking or promoting online services is unconstitutional

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  Facebook shares user data with Russian search engine Yandex

  Facebook has announced it intends to share public data from its users with Russian search engine Yandex

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Tesco signs deal with Verizon for ‘single global network’

  Tesco will link its network across 12 countries over a single infrastructure provided by Verizon

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work

  The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Target to invest $5m in cyber security awareness

  Cyber breach-hit US retailer Target is to invest $5m in a cyber security education campaign

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Top European IT initiative to support business in 2014?

  Expanding IT to support business growth is one of the biggest areas of focus for IT departments in 2014, so what does this mean?

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  US transport chief highlights privacy concerns over car technology

  The increasing use of computer technology in cars raises questions about privacy, says US transportation secretary Anthony Foxx

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Google bets on internet of things with Nest acquisition

  Google is betting on the internet of things (IoT) by acquiring smart thermostat maker Nest Labs in a deal worth $3.2bn

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Neiman Marcus warns that data breach may affect customers

  US retailer Neiman Marcus has warned that cyber attackers may have stolen customers' payment card information in December

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Syrian hacking group breaches Microsoft Twitter accounts

  Purported members of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacktivist group have hijacked two Microsoft Twitter accounts and a blog

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Predictions 2014: How CIOs plan to spend their 2014 IT budget

  Computer Weekly asks IT experts what they believe will be the biggest areas of IT investment in 2014, and how different industries will be spending their IT budgets.

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Government tells UK SMEs to be 'cyber streetwise'

  Government is urging SMEs to become "cyber streetwise," to reduce the risk of cyber attack

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  France fines Google for failing to rewrite privacy policy

  France’s privacy watchdog, CNIL, has fined Google €150,000 for failing to conform to EU data laws

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  £8m competition seeks tech to rejuvenate high street

  A competition has been launched to find new technology that will encourage people to shop on the high street

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  Network-based security tops European agenda for 2014

  Network-based security is the top security initiative for European companies in 2014, research shows

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  LinkedIn files lawsuit to identify hackers

  LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit aimed at identifying hackers who by-passed security measures to copy member data

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  Record online sales saw growth of almost 20% over Christmas

  Sales of non-food goods online grew 19.2% in December compared to the previous year

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  Mass surveillance must end, says EU inquiry

  The European parliament’s civil liberties committee has called for an end to the collection of personal data by UK and US intelligence agencies

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Sepa deadline extended by six months

  The European Commission has proposed an extension to the deadline for European countries to be compliant with the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) of six months in a final warning to laggards

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  NIST invested in protest-hit RSA Conference

  The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has paid $16,500 for a booth at the protest-hit RSA Conference 2014, it has emerged

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Tesco sales decline, but multi-channel efforts are paying off

  Tesco has reported disappointing sales, with a 2.4% drop in overall like-for-like sales over the Christmas period

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Sky forced to update porn filter

  Sky has been forced to update its porn filter after it was found to be blocking legitimate file-sharing sites

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Europeans users of Yahoo have PCs turned into Bitcoin miners

  Some malware distributed by Yahoo’s ad servers in the first week of the year, turned victims’ PCs into bitcoin miners

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Sainsbury’s sees 10% increase in online sales

  Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has seen the online delivery arm of its business grow by over 10% in the past quarter

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Apple calls for removal of antitrust compliance monitor

  Apple has called for the removal of antitrust compliance monitor Michael Bromwich, accusing him of personal bias against the company

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Yahoo reveals plans for UK teen’s Summly

  Yahoo has revealed what it plans to do with technology acquired from UK teenage developer Nick D'Aloiso

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Intel phases out McAfee security brand

  Intel has announced that, as it introduces new security products, it will replace the McAfee brand with that of 'Intel Security'

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Mobile retail payments to hit $707bn by 2018

  Payments on mobile and tablet devices are expected to account for 30% of all online retail by 2018

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Security Think Tank: Information security strategy should support the business

  How should Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA and GCHQ influence future information security strategies in the UK?

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Pirate Bay plans new censorship-busting browser

  File-sharing site The Pirate Bay plans to take a second censorship-avoiding browser

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Samsung expects profits to fall

  Samsung Electronics has announced it expects profits to fall in the fourth quarter of 2013

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Infosec Skills, BCS announce winners of Cyber Security Challenge

  Stuart Pringle, Simon Robinson and Robert Wyllie have won over £2,000 of training and a place in the semi-final of the current UK Cyber Security Challenge

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  NHS collects patient care data from GPs

  NHS England expands patient data collection from hospitals to include general practice, raising data protection questions

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Yahoo claims malicious ads under control

  Yahoo says the situation is under control after its advertising network served up malware to thousands of visitors last week

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  City Link contact centre gets real-time customer data

  Delivery firm City Link is reducing the time it takes for its contact center to handle customer requests through integrating Cisco technology with interactive software

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  FireEye acquires Mandiant in $1bn deal

  Security firm FireEye has bought Mandiant in a deal worth just over $1bn

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Snapchat to implement anti-abuse security measures

  Snapchat is to release an updated version of its app after hackers downloaded usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Facebook faces lawsuit over monitoring private messages

  Facebook is facing a lawsuit that claims it scans the contents of private messages to profile the user’s online activity

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  John Lewis online sales soar over Christmas period

  John Lewis has seen online sales for the five-week trading period over Christmas increase by 22.6% on last year

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Apple denies creating backdoor for NSA

  Apple has denied working with the US National Security Agency to create a backdoor in any of its products

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Hacktivists hijack Skype social media accounts

  Hacktivists have hijacked the blog and twitter accounts of Microsoft’s Skype internet voice and video calling service

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Snapchat hackers expose details of 4.6 million users

  Hackers have posted the usernames and mobile phone numbers of 4.6 million US Snapchat account holders online

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2013

  Smart retailers are realising they must adopt a multi-channel approach to their business, making instore, online, and mobile a seamless experience for the customer

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Retailers must distinguish between smartphones and tablets, says IBM

  Mobile and online shopping increased this Boxing Day, according to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark.

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Top 10 UK cyber security stories of 2013

  Cyber security has moved up the national agenda in the past year, with the UK government paying increasing attention to bolstering UK cyber defences

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Top 10 IT security stories of 2013

  The need to evolve IT security strategies to match new and emerging threats has come clearly to the fore in the past year

• December 24, 2013 24 Dec'13

  Top 10 IT privacy stories of 2013

  Stories related to whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about internet mass surveillance programmes by the US and the UK have dominated this year

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Consumer Rights Bill needs more protection for digital consumers, says committee

  The government’s draft Consumer Rights Bill must resolve inconsistencies from digital purchases before reaching its potential to consolidate, simplify and modernise consumer law

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 CIO interviews of 2013

  The top IT leaders in the UK talked to Computer Weekly throughout 2013 to share their opinions and experiences of modern technology leadership

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  John Lewis trials transactional tablets and debuts on Google Street View

  John Lewis has announced a range of shopping technologies it will be trialling over the Christmas period

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  UK cyber security progress welcomed

  The UK government’s report on progress the National Cyber Security Programme has widely been welcomed by the IT security community and industry

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  UK to review laws governing spy agencies in 2014

  Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is calling for written submissions for its inquiry into the laws governing intelligence agencies

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Four arrested in £1m London cyber bank heist

  Police have arrested four people suspected cyber criminals and seized £80,000 in cash and a live grenade after the theft of £1m from two banks

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Government to expand cyber security partnerships

  The UK government introduces security kitemark pas part of plans to expanding partnerships on cyber security with the private sector in 2014

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Research reveals widespread mobile app hacking

  The top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked, research has revealed

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Thirteen plead guilty to Anonymous DDoS attack on Paypal

  Thirteen people have pleaded guilty to taking part in DDoS attacks on eBay’s Paypal, organised by the Anonymous hacker group in 2010

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Ransomware looks set to increase, warns Sophos

  Cyber criminals are planning to produce new forms of ransomware on an unprecedented scale, according to IT security firm Sophos

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Computer system failure delays hundreds of UK flights

  Hundreds of flights at several UK airports were delayed or cancelled at the weekend because of a computer failure at National Air Traffic Services (NATS)

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Top tech firms call for worldwide surveillance reform

  Top technology firms have joined forces to call for urgent reforms of all internet surveillance programmes

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Microsoft to protect customers from government snooping

  Microsoft has announced it is to take measures to increase the security of customer data to protect against government snooping

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Microsoft leads major disruption of ZeroAccess botnet

  Microsoft, the FBI and Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have disrupted ZeroAccess, one of the world’s largest botnets

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Skills and supporting businesses top Autumn Statement 2013 agenda

  Supporting young businesses and fixing the skills gap was a recurring theme during today’s Autumn Statement in the House of Commons