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IT risk management
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March 28, 2011
28
Mar'11
Businesses spend over £600k a week on data security abroad
Companies are spending up to £624,000 a week to secure their most sensitive business data abroad, a study has revealed.
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March 25, 2011
25
Mar'11
Hackers steal member email details from TripAdvisor site
A number of TripAdvisor members may receive spam after hackers stole email details from the travel website.
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March 23, 2011
23
Mar'11
SAP combines GRC and BI in new platform
SAP has launched a new governance, risk and compliance platform that combines and integrates existing GRC and business intelligence technologies.
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March 23, 2011
23
Mar'11
Budget 2011: UK public worried spending cuts will impact data security
A large proportion of the UK public is worried that government spending cuts will have a negative effect on data security, a survey has revealed.
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March 18, 2011
18
Mar'11
RSA hit by advanced persistent threat attacks
RSA, the security division of EMC, has revealed that attackers have stolen information from the company's IT systems
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March 17, 2011
17
Mar'11
Ban threat looms for Blackberry services as India demand corporate data access
India could block Research in Motion (RIM) from 31 March 2011 after government officials expressed dissatisfaction with access to Blackberry services.
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March 16, 2011
16
Mar'11
Trusteer debuts no-software malware protection
Secure web access firm Trusteer has announced a web login and transaction monitoring service to detect malware without installing software.
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March 16, 2011
16
Mar'11
RIM urges Blackberry users to disable Javascript after web browsing vulnerability revealed
Research in Motion (RIM) is advising Blackberry smartphone users to disable Javascript to protect against a security vulnerability in its web browser.
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March 15, 2011
15
Mar'11
IT failures blamed for immigration system faults
IT failures have been blamed for failures of the points based immigration system in a National Audit Office (NAO) report.
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March 15, 2011
15
Mar'11
Adobe warns of zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash
Adobe has published a security advisory for a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash that can be used to take control of an attacked machine.
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March 10, 2011
10
Mar'11
Most organisations approach IAM in the wrong way, says Gartner
Most organisations are approaching identity and access management (IAM) in the wrong way, by planning deployments around technologies, says Gartner.
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March 10, 2011
10
Mar'11
Advanced persistent threats - are businesses prepared?
Businesses usually attain adequate levels of IT defences at the point that it becomes more cost effective for cyber criminals to target someone else.
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March 09, 2011
09
Mar'11
Industry calls on employers to say what security skills are needed
The National Skills Academy for IT is calling on employers to address the cyber security skills gap by sharing views on the most useful courses and qualifications.
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March 08, 2011
08
Mar'11
Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud
The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"
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March 07, 2011
07
Mar'11
France's G20 files target of cyber attack
France's files on the G20 meetings were the target of a cyber attack, the country's finance minister has confirmed.
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March 07, 2011
07
Mar'11
HSBC uses token to secure smartphone banking
HSBC is sending four million online banking customers a security token which will enable them to log in to their online bank account wherever they are, without using a card reader.
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March 01, 2011
01
Mar'11
Intel finalises £5bn acquisition of McAfee
Intel has confirmed the completion of its $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant McAfee.
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February 24, 2011
24
Feb'11
Exxon, Shell, BP hacked in Night Dragon attacks
Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP were among the oil companies targeted by hackers working through internet servers in China, say US reports.
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February 22, 2011
22
Feb'11
Middle East governments stepping up internet control, study shows
The internet has proved to be a powerful tool for rallying social and political change, but Middle East governments have also recognised their capability to disrupt communications
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February 21, 2011
21
Feb'11
RSA 2011: Microsoft promotes co-ordinated vulnerability disclosure
Software producers remain largely unresponsive to input from security researchers, according to Aaron Portnoy, manager of the security research team HP TippingPoint.
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February 21, 2011
21
Feb'11
RSA 2011: Top attacks business will face in 2011
Social networking will be the attacker platform of choice in 2011, says Ed Skoudis, founder and senior security consultant with InGuardians.
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February 17, 2011
17
Feb'11
RSA 2011: RSA, EMC and VMWare advise on defending against advanced persistent threats
Security leaders have outlined ways organisations can better defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs) in a paper published by RSA, the security division of EMC.
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February 15, 2011
15
Feb'11
RSA 2011: Cybersecurity leads conference with cloud security keynote
Cybersecurity is one of the key topics at the RSA Conference 2011 taking place this week in San Francisco.
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February 14, 2011
14
Feb'11
Dell rolls out services for enterprise mobility
Dell has introduced a portfolio of services to help businesses manage mobile devices and an increasingly mobile workforce.
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February 11, 2011
11
Feb'11
Mobile hacker attacks will damage business in 2011
Businesses cannot afford to ignore mobile hacking attacks as they are proving extremely lucrative over shorter periods, a study of mobile threats has found.
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February 10, 2011
10
Feb'11
ID card database is destroyed
The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed.
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February 10, 2011
10
Feb'11
IT departments are unable to support employee devices
Security concerns are holding companies back from allowing staff to use their own technology at work.
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February 10, 2011
10
Feb'11
Mobile workers practise lax security
More than half of Europeans practise unsafe networking when they work away from the office, according to research by German remote access experts NCP Engineering.
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February 08, 2011
08
Feb'11
Post Office faces legal action over alleged accounting system failures
More than 50 postmasters are planning legal action against the Post Office to reclaim money they paid to the Post Office after being accused of theft and false accounting.
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February 08, 2011
08
Feb'11
AXA in £150m settlement for software glitch
Financial services giant AXA will be forced to pay millions of pounds to clients after it emerged that errors in trading software were hidden by three of its subsidiaries, prompting bad performance in investment portfolios.
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February 08, 2011
08
Feb'11
Businesses must learn how to defend against cyberattack, says McAfee
Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say.
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January 31, 2011
31
Jan'11
Vodafone restores services to Egypt after mobile shutdown
Mobile operator, Vodafone, has restored mobile phone services in Egypt after a 24-hour shutdown.
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January 28, 2011
28
Jan'11
SMEs still lack data backup
Many small business lack data recovery plans, despite a recent uptake in cloud adoption, according to a survey.
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January 26, 2011
26
Jan'11
Cybercriminals target data in transit
Cybercriminals are shifting away from basic "smash and grab" attacks targeting stored data to more complex methods of data harvesting in transit, security research reveals.
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January 25, 2011
25
Jan'11
Smart meter and smart grids: security risk or opportunity?
A smart meter in every home in the UK by 2017 is the government plan as a first step towards a smart grid, but how can we ensure the benefits will outweigh the security risks?
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January 21, 2011
21
Jan'11
Parliament to debate cost-sharing element of Digital Economy Act
Secondary legislation on sharing the costs of the Digital Economy Act's measures to tackle online copyright infringement has been laid in Parliament.
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January 21, 2011
21
Jan'11
RBI guidelines focus on fortifying IT security by banks
RBI has issued security guidelines for the Indian banks that touch upon aspects such as IT governance, security, and cyber fraud.
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January 19, 2011
19
Jan'11
2010 IT security threats point to priorities for 2011, says Sophos
Cyber threats of 2010 highlight the top risks to business for 2011, including social media sites, whistleblowers, and hacktivists, warns security firm Sophos.
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January 12, 2011
12
Jan'11
Microsoft January Patch Tuesday misses open security issues
Microsoft's January 2011 Patch Tuesday security update contains only two bulletins, but misses several open security issues.
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January 12, 2011
12
Jan'11
Government departments criticised over data sharing mistake
Three government agencies have been criticised over a data sharing mistake that led to the wrongful disclosure of a woman's personal and financial information.
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January 06, 2011
06
Jan'11
Update: Who takes the blame for the Lloyds TSB duplicate payment error?
Over 200,000 people were affected by a glitch at Lloyds TSB, when an error with its merchant system duplicated payments on New Year's Eve. Jenny Williams investigates.
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January 06, 2011
06
Jan'11
$21m acquisition of Immunet takes Sourcefire to the cloud
Snort creator Sourcefire has announced the $21m (£13.5m) acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware technologies firm Immunet.
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November 23, 2010
23
Nov'10
Martha Lane Fox calls for ‘revolution’ in online government services
Digital champion Martha Lane Fox has published a report calling for a centralised government internet address to replace 750 websites. In a review...
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February 24, 2010
24
Feb'10
Chinook Mk2's safety-critical backup system was faulty
Software supplier EDS found so many anomalies in fuel-control software on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter that it became concerned that the Ministry of Defence and RAF would ignore the potential importance of each flaw because of the high volume of ...
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February 22, 2010
22
Feb'10
What was the 'dangerous' flaw in safety-critical Chinook system?
Defence contractor EDS - now part of HP - warned the Ministry of Defence that flaws in a Fadec safety-critical system fitted to the Chinook Mk2 helicopter could cause it to malfunction, months before a fatal crash on the Mull of Kintyre.
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January 12, 2010
12
Jan'10
Senior airmen question safety of Chinook software
Three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society have questioned whether the Chinook Mk2, of the type which crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, was airworthy.
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January 07, 2010
07
Jan'10
MoD renews attack on dead Chinook pilots despite software flaw disclosures
The Ministry of Defence has renewed its attack on the dead pilots of Chinook ZD576, after the publication of documents that revealed a "dangerous" flaw in software installed on the type of helicopter that crashed.
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January 05, 2010
05
Jan'10
Chinook computer flaws - ex-ministers speak out
Former Defence ministers are calling for a new inquiry into the crash of Chinook 576, after new disclosures of a "positively dangerous" flaw in software...
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January 04, 2010
04
Jan'10
Chinook computer was 'positively dangerous' say newly-disclosed MoD documents
A computer flaw in the type of Chinook helicopter that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, killing all 29 on board, was known to be "positively dangerous", according to military documents that have not been published until today.
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December 07, 2009
07
Dec'09
NHS IT scheme to be scaled back
The Chancellor Alistair Darling and the Treasury are to scale back spending on the NHS's National Programme for IT.