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• 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 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 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Facebook to acquire UK startup Monoidics

  Facebook is to acquire UK startup Monoidics, which makes code verification and analysis tools and specialises in detecting coding errors

• 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 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 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?

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  BES extends MDM to Android and iPhones

  Aiming to rekindle interest in the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), Blackberry has extended the platform to support Android and iOS

• 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 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Telefonica Digital forms security group Eleven Paths

  The business division of mobile operator Telefonica launches Eleven Paths, an independent company working on security issues in the workplace

• 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 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Privileged accounts key to most APT attacks, says Cyber-Ark

  The theft, misuse and exploitation of privileged accounts is becoming an increasingly key tactic in advanced persistent threat attacks

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Microsoft declares conformance with ISO 27034-1

  Microsoft has declared conformance with ISO 27034-1, the first part of an international standard for secure software development

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Cyber criminals hack Washington court system

  Hackers gain access to the personal data of 160,000 US citizens after compromising Washington State court service servers

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Symantec helps NHS trust cut security costs by a quarter

  The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust cut security costs by 25% in its partnership with security supplier Symantec

• May 03, 2013 03 May'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security: Winners

  The winners are in for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Security. See who made the top spots.

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  What’s to be done about data breach discovery?

  The time from first contact by cyber attackers to the victim learning of it is still measured in months and years, not hours and days

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Another online firm hit by data breach

  Online deals service LivingSocial is the latest company to report a breach of its computer systems that may mean attackers accessed customer details

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: University research challenges reliability of IPS

  Research shows intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are not as effective at detecting malicious activity as some might think

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Security spend misaligned with threats, says security veteran

  Security budget allocations have remained the same for the past 15 years, but threats have changed, says Shlomo Kramer, chief executive at security firm Imperva

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Conficker makes way for web-based attacks, says Microsoft

  Web attacks emerge as top threat as businesses finally begin to win the battle against Conficker and other worms, says Microsoft

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Bots and web apps among top threats to data security, says Check Point

  Bots, viruses, breaches and attacks are a constant and real threat to the information security of organisations

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Porn websites pose malware risk, says researcher

  Browsing popular pornography internet sites pose a growing risk of malware infection, according to a security researcher

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Case Study: 192business switches to tokenisation to speed up business processes

  Online payment card verification firm 192business uses tokenisation to speed up its processes and protect credit card details from fraud

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  US Army practises poor data security on mobile devices

  Pentagon inspector general finds smartphones and tablets the US Army buys are not configured to protect sensitive data and allow remote wipe

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Anonymous threatens to declare cyber war on North Korea

  Anonymous hacktivist collective has threatened North Korea with cyber war if leader Kim Jong-un does not resign and install free democracy

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Employees ignore security rules, say infosec pros

  Most information security professionals believe corporate employees wilfully ignore security rules, survey at RSA Conference 2013 reveals

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders

  Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Microsoft releases four critical security updates

  Microsoft is to release four “critical” patches in its monthly Patch Tuesday security update, according to the advance notice.

• March 11, 2013 11 Mar'13

  Territorial Army on the hunt for information assurance professionals

  TA to recruit IT security professionals into the Royal Signals to strengthen cyber operations

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  What is RSA's build, buy, partner strategy?

  Computer Weekly takes a closer look at RSA's build, buy, partner strategy

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  RSA 2013: Suppliers need to prepare for new security vulnerability handling standards

  Software makers and online service providers need to prepare for two ISO standards on vulnerability handling processes due by the end of 2013

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  350,000 different types of spam SMS messages were targeted at mobile users in 2012

  350,000 different variants of unsolicited spam SMS messages were accounted for in 2012, with 53,000 variants logged for December alone

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  RSA 2013: Obama cyber order will have significant effect, says DoHS

  President Barack Obama’s executive order on cybersecurity is a “very big deal” says Mark Weatherford, deputy under-secretary for cybersecurity at the US Department of Homeland Security (DoHS).

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Twitter strengthens login security after hacker attack

  Days after a hacking attack, it has emerged that Twitter plans to strengthen its login security with two-factor authentication

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Why has NAC, like DLP, failed to take off?

  Why are organisations not investing in systems that are designed to keep malicious actors out of their networks?

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Encryption is safe bet, says SafeNet

  Encryption is the only thing that can give peace of mind to CIOs and CISOs, says Dave Hansen, president and CEO of security firm SafeNet

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  ICO hits Sony with £250,000 data breach penalty

  The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has fined Sony Computer Entertainment Europe £250,000 for breaching the Data Protection Act

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Why has DLP never taken off?

  Why is data loss prevention (DLP) technology not being adopted if it provides the very protection most businesses need?

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  Oracle rushes out patches for Java zero days

  Oracle has released two out-of-band security updates for the latest zero day vulnerabilities in Java

• January 11, 2013 11 Jan'13

  Disable Java to protect from latest zero-day

  Security researchers are warning of a zero-day vulnerability in all versions of Java, including the latest Java 7 update 10

• January 10, 2013 10 Jan'13

  Software piracy international in scope, says Fast

  The scale of software piracy is both international in scope and military in its execution, says the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast)

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Misuse of social media could wreak havoc, warns World Economic Forum

  The rapid spread of false information through social media poses a growing threat to business and society, the World Economic Forum has warned

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Ernst & Young email keyword analysis identifies fraudsters

  Fraud investigators have revealed the most common words used in email conversations by employees engaged in rogue trading and fraud

• November 26, 2012 26 Nov'12

  Security needs to be integral part of life, says McAfee

  The world is becoming increasingly connected and security and privacy are integral to modern society, says Raj Samani, CTO of McAfee Europe

• November 20, 2012 20 Nov'12

  Deception, proactive defenses can better protect IP, says expert

  Deceptive environments, phony data in the enterprise can fool attackers and increase the cost of hacking, says noted cybersecurity expert Paul Kurtz.

• November 19, 2012 19 Nov'12

  Cyber criminals target Skype, Facebook and Windows users

  Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype, Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October, according to security firm GFI Software

• November 16, 2012 16 Nov'12

  Nasa to encrypt data after latest breach

  Nasa is to encrypt all its mobile computers after the loss of a laptop containing personal information about more than 10,000 staff

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  Many UK firms underestimate cost of data breaches, study finds

  Many UK organisations are still failing to understand the implications and costs of data breaches, a study has revealed

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Hacking attempts to top one billion in Q4, predicts NCC Group

  One billion hacking attempts will be made globally in the final quarter of 2012, according to information assurance firm NCC Group