News

IT security

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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"

• 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.

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  Western Digital bids $4.3 billion for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

  Western Digital has tabled a bid of $4.25m (£2.6bn) to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies ending the Japanese HDD vendor's previous preparations for an IPO.

• 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.

• March 07, 2011 07 Mar'11

  Malvertising, pop-up ad virus problems demand more user protection

  A recent pop-up ad infection on the London Stock Exchange's website highlights the growing scourge of malicious advertising, or malvertising.

• 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.

• February 25, 2011 25 Feb'11

  nullcon 2011 Day Zero: Photo feature

  Botnet detection, fuzzing intricacies, Zeus MitMo, VoIP attacks, and more. nullcon Day Zero saw considerable action worth the capture.

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  ISC releases security fix for Bind DoS vulnerability

  The Internet Systems Consortium has published an advisory and an update for the Bind domain name system software versions 9.7.1 to 9.7.2-P3.

• 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.

• February 24, 2011 24 Feb'11

  Microsoft fixes security flaw in malware protection engine

  Microsoft has patched a flaw in its malware protection engine that could be exploited to gain control of victim's computer.

• February 22, 2011 22 Feb'11

  Legacy kit and lack of skills hold back digital video surveillance

  A huge legacy investment in analogue equipment and a lack of data integration skills are holding back more widespread adoption of fully digital video surveillance systems, according to research just published.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  New SMB vulnerability identified in Windows XP and Server 2003

  A new SMB vulnerability discovered in Windows could open systems to DoS attacks and remote access. The vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2011-0654, has been rated "critical" and confirmed on Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows XP SP3.

• 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.

• February 17, 2011 17 Feb'11

  Optus email rejects shortened URLs

  Optus has adjusted its email security regime to repel incoming emails that use URLs shortened by services like bit.ly or TinyURL.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday outlines five critical vulnerabilities

  Microsoft has released 12 security bulletins addressing 22 vulnerabilities in its monthly security update for February

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Spam level dips

  The recent decline in global spam was the result of a halt in the spam-sending activities of three botnets and unrest among pharmaceutical spam-sending gangs, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report has revealed.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• January 19, 2011 19 Jan'11

  More than 1,000 patient records lost on unencrypted laptop

  A doctor is to be disciplined following the loss of 1,147 patient records on an unencrypted laptop.

• January 14, 2011 14 Jan'11

  Biometric authentication technology curbs microfinance org’s losses

  Growing Opportunity implements biometric authentication technology to overcome financial losses resulting from duplicate loan applications.

• 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.

• 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.

• January 07, 2011 07 Jan'11

  Microsoft to patch critical IE vulnerability to block ongoing attacks

  Microsoft will issue two security bulletins, addressing a critical vulnerability affecting all versions of WIndows.

• 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.

• 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.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• December 22, 2010 22 Dec'10

  FTC clears £5bn Intel acquisition of McAfee

  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US has approved Intel's $7.7bn (£5bn) acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.

• December 01, 2010 01 Dec'10

  Phishing attack on Facebook leverages iframes

  Popular social networking site, Facebook being used for phishing attacks and open redirects, claims Websense Security Labs.

• 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...