Malvertising increases by 240 per cent as networks detected

February 13, 2012

Malvertising networks were responsible for a 240 per cent increase in the number of malicious sites detected in 2011.
 

Fresh ICO fines against councils

February 13, 2012

Fines have been issued to Croydon Council and Norfolk County Council by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
 

Eircom slammed for laptop and data loss

February 13, 2012

Irish Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes has called the loss of Eircom's laptops "one of the most serious breaches" his office has seen.
 

Ticketmaster admits direct mailing system was hacked

February 13, 2012

Ticketmaster has admitted that its direct email marketing system was hacked and malicious emails were sent out "from an unauthorised party".
 

PCI council announces credential plans and new chairperson

, February 10, 2012

The PCI Security Standards Council is planning to introduce a certification that demonstrates a company is qualified for assessment.
 

Google dishes out more than £250,000 in 'bug bounty' rewards

February 10, 2012

Google has announced that more than 1,100 legitimate vulnerabilities have been reported to its bug bounty programme since its inception, with over $410,000 (£258,000) awarded.
 

Microsoft's Valentine's gift: nine bulletins with four critical centres

February 10, 2012

Microsoft will release nine bulletins to address 21 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and .NET/Silverlight on its next Patch Tuesday.
 

Regional cyber-crime units created

February 09, 2012

Specific police cyber crime teams have been created in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and East Midlands.
 

DDoS attacks get smaller, as IPv6 hits detected

February 09, 2012

Hacktivism based on ideology poses the greatest challenge to businesses, as the first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the IPv6 infrastructure are detected.
 

Lost USB stick contained details of more than 1,000 school children

February 08, 2012

The details of more than 1,000 school pupils were lost when a USB stick was misplaced by a member of East Lothian Council.
 

Splunk updates Enterprise Security product

February 08, 2012

Splunk has announced the launch of the new version of its Enterprise Security Intelligence Solution.
 

More than three-quarters of UK employees 'unaware of EC data protection changes'

February 08, 2012

Two-thirds of UK employees would read an email that was not intended for them, as research finds that three-quarters are unaware of proposed changes to the Data Protection Directive.
 

Cloud and SaaS visibility solution launched by Fidelis

February 08, 2012

Fidelis Security Systems has released a cloud security solution to provide visibility and control at the enterprise network edge.
 

Early-bird tickets available for 44Con

February 08, 2012

Early-bird tickets for the 2012 44Con event are now available for online purchase.
 

Faronics beefs up anti-virus solution

February 07, 2012

Faronics has added process protection, intrusion detection and web filtering to its anti-virus product.
 

Safer Internet Day reaches out to kids, as extent of malware exposure is revealed

February 07, 2012

Today more than 4,000 schoolchildren will be visited as part of Safer Internet Day, as research reveals that over a quarter of them still click on malicious links online.
 

Trustwave's PCI portal provides checklist of compliance actions

February 07, 2012

Trustwave has announced the latest version of its cloud-delivered TrustKeeper PCI Manager portal.
 

Financial services firm and foot doctor report data losses

February 03, 2012

The personal details of more than 600 people were lost by E*Trade Securities almost two years ago.
 

VeriSign and Symantec say DNS, Trust Services and User Authentication unaffected by 2010 attack

February 03, 2012

VeriSign claims that the attack it suffered in 2010 has not compromised the integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS).
 

VeriSign reports 'successful attacks' against its corporate network

February 02, 2012

VeriSign has admitted that it was breached, although it did not believe the attacks breached the servers that support its Domain Name System (DNS) network.
 

Government told to invest in Get Safe Online and improve relations with ISPs

February 02, 2012

The Government has been recommended to invest in the Get Safe Online site and improve police officers' knowledge of cyber crime.
 

Banking malware 'a growing threat', as new variant of Zeus is detected

February 02, 2012

Malware that steals users' identity and empties their bank accounts has been cited as a growing threat to Britain.
 

Ireland targeted once again by Anonymous after copyright bill is signed into law

February 02, 2012

Irish government passwords were accessed and published last night as Anonymous retaliated to the passing of a copyright law.
 

Government web applications contain the most vulnerabilities

February 02, 2012

Almost two-thirds of web applications have been found to be at risk from cross-site scripting (XSS).
 

Security B-Sides London conference to return in April

February 01, 2012

The second Security B-Sides London conference will take place on 25 April at the Barbican.
 

Cyber crime 'to overtake terrorism' as top threat facing the US

February 01, 2012

Iran has been identified as the main cyber threat to the United States as the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) claims that intrusions are not being detected.
 

SC Magazine Awards Europe 2012: nominees announced

February 01, 2012

The shortlist for this year's SC Magazine Awards Europe has been announced.
 

IBM moves into mobile security with Endpoint Manager product and acquisition of Worklight

February 01, 2012

IBM is to acquire Worklight, a privately held Israel-based provider of mobile software for smartphones and tablets.
 

Transport for London expects the capital to be Lost Device Central this summer

January 31, 2012

More than 3,000 smartphones could be lost this summer as the world descends upon London.
 

Wave launches cloud-based encryption management service

January 31, 2012

Wave Systems has released a cloud-based encryption management service for centralised data protection.
 

Browsium allows IE6 web applications to be run in modern browsers

January 31, 2012

Browsium has announced the release of a solution to run legacy IE6-dependent web applications in modern browsers.
 

Symantec declares pcAnywhere safe to use

January 31, 2012

Symantec has said that its pcAnywhere software is now safe to use, with free upgrades offered to users.
 

Accused Kelihos botnet controller protests his innocence

January 30, 2012

A Russian programmer accused by Microsoft of being behind the Kelihos botnet has protested his innocence.
 

ICO fines Scottish council

January 30, 2012

Midlothian council has been hit with a monetary penalty of £140,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) following three breaches involving children's social service reports being sent to the wrong recipients.
 

Veracode adds Android testing capability to platform

January 27, 2012

Veracode has added capability to its cloud-based application security testing platform for Android mobile apps.
 

ICO: consumers often denied right to their information

January 27, 2012

Consumers are being denied the right to access the information that companies or public bodies hold about them, according to the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham.
 

ICO calls for rethink on Data Protection Directive changes

January 27, 2012

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has broadly welcomed the upcoming changes to the Data Protection Directive this week, but called some areas "unnecessarily and unhelpfully over-prescriptive".
 

Hosted information protection launched by Verdasys

January 26, 2012

Verdasys has launched two new managed service offerings for information protection.
 

IT directors believe consumerisation of IT is overhyped

January 26, 2012

More than three-quarters of IT directors think the consumerisation of IT is overhyped, but admit to it causing sleepless nights.
 

Symantec advises users to avoid pcAnywhere as 'code hack' story persists

January 25, 2012

Symantec customers who use its pcAnywhere software have been advised to disable it.
 

ISF: consider a cyber resiliency response to protect against 'unknown unknowns'

January 25, 2012

Cyber resilience is a matter for the whole business to be involved with and not just the security team.
 

Google to release revised privacy policy in March

January 25, 2012

Google is to roll out an overarching privacy policy that covers the majority of its products and explains what information it collects and how it is used.
 

Businesses will have to report major data breaches within 24 hours under new EC law

January 25, 2012

Businesses across the European Union (EU) will have to report 'major' data breaches within 24 hours.
 

Open source 'Malwr' analysis tool launched

January 25, 2012

A free web-based malware analysis tool powered by Shadowserver aims to shake up vendor-controlled and proprietary systems.
 

Anonymous targets Ireland over plan to introduce 'SOPA' bill

January 25, 2012

Ireland was the latest national target for the Anonymous group after the Irish equivalent of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was announced.
 

Twitter acquires web anti-malware firm

January 24, 2012

Anti-malware firm Dasient has announced its sale to microblogging site Twitter.
 

Microsoft names former software engineer as man behind Kelihos botnet

January 24, 2012

Microsoft has named a St Petersburg man who used to work for a security vendor as being responsible for the operations of the Kelihos botnet.
 

Typosquatting leads Megaupload seekers astray, as other file-sharing sites limit access

January 24, 2012

A case of typosquatting is leading inquisitive surfers to a malicious site when looking for the former Megaupload portal.
 

Government CIO unveiled as part of C-level changes

January 24, 2012

Andy Nelson has been announced as the new chief information officer (CIO) of central government.
 

Fortinet enhances its FortiDB range

January 23, 2012

Fortinet has announced additions and enhancements to its FortiDB product line.
 

Businesses prepared for consumerisation when it comes to email

January 23, 2012

More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe are prepared to meet employee demands for personal device use.
 

Sourcefire moves into malware analytics

January 23, 2012

Sourcefire has launched a malware discovery and analysis solution that uses big data analytics.
 

Anonymous plans fresh offensive against Sony

January 20, 2012

The Anonymous group has announced plans to launch a fresh attack on Sony on Monday.
 

Megaupload takedown spurs retaliation from Anonymous

January 20, 2012

A takedown of the file-sharing site Megaupload led to the US Department of Justice being hit by the hacktivist group Anonymous last night.
 

Ransomware attacks on the rise

January 20, 2012

An increase in 'ransomware' attacks has been detected over the past few months.
 

Cyber Security Challenge appoints CEO

January 20, 2012

The Cyber Security Challenge has hired a former Post Office CIO as its first CEO.
 

Koobface servers switched off following investigation

January 20, 2012

Command and control (C&C) servers used by owners of the Koobface botnet have reportedly stopped responding following an investigation this week.
 

Halon Security launches firewalls with support for virtualised environments

January 19, 2012

Halon Security has announced a new range of firewalls with the Security Router (SR) series.
 

Tweeters reveal personal details including email addresses

January 19, 2012

More than 11,000 email addresses were published on Twitter over a 24-hour period.
 

Care provider rapped by UK and Isle of Man data commissioners over lost memory stick

January 19, 2012

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and the Office of the Data Protection Supervisor (ODPS) for the Isle of Man have jointly criticised a care provider after an unencrypted memory stick was lost last year.
 

Frailty of GSM network revealed, as calls are easily intercepted

January 18, 2012

Phones that connect to 2G or 3G networks can be intercepted as easily as on WiFi networks.
 

Are CISOs about to become about much more than security?

January 18, 2012

The role of the CISO will evolve to become more of an overall communicator and business strategist.
 

Smartphone capabilities should lead to greater take-up of voice biometrics

January 18, 2012

Voice biometrics will become a key part of authentication technology in the coming years.
 

Proliferation of mobile devices boosts number of security events

January 18, 2012

Almost three-quarters of businesses believe that the proliferation of mobile devices has contributed to an increase in the number of security events in their organisation in the past two years.
 

Symantec reveals hacking and theft of source code

January 18, 2012

Symantec has admitted that it was breached six years ago, with the source code for its Norton software stolen.
 

Transaction authentication device launched by SafeNet

January 18, 2012

SafeNet has launched a secure signing device designed to prevent e-banking fraud and to secure online transactions.
 

Attacks against Israeli services continue

January 17, 2012

Cyber attacks against Israel continued this week with the websites of its stock exchange and national airline El Al both hit yesterday.
 

T-Mobile staff data and passwords hacked and published

January 17, 2012

The hacktivist group TeaMp0isoN has published the names and passwords of T-Mobile staff.
 

F-Secure confirms new president and CEO

January 17, 2012

Christian Fredrikson has been confirmed as president and CEO of F-Secure.
 

Public sector survey reveals threat of cyber and economic crime

January 17, 2012

Economic crime affected nearly half of government and public sector organisations in the past 12 months.
 

Cyber Security Challenge finalists announced

January 16, 2012

The first 11 finalists for the UK Cyber Security Challenge have been confirmed.
 

San Francisco college was infested with viruses for more than ten years

January 16, 2012

An 'infestation' of viruses existed for more than a decade at the City College of San Francisco.
 

White House encourages battle against online piracy, but vows to protect innovation

January 16, 2012

Protecting intellectual property online must not threaten an open and innovative internet, according to the White House.
 

Email blunder causes red faces at AstraZeneca

January 13, 2012

Pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca accidentally sent out confidential internal corporate forecasts to financial analysts last week.
 

Chinese attacks target US government agencies and smartcards

January 13, 2012

Evidence has been revealed that attacks are being made against US government agencies, using a new strain of the Sykipot malware to compromise smartcards.
 

Sophos releases virtualised appliances

January 13, 2012

Sophos has launched virtual web appliances by integrating its managed appliances into an on-premise managed service.
 

US moves to protect power grid

, January 12, 2012

The United States energy secretary has unveiled an initiative that seeks to further protect the power grid from cyber attacks.
 

Stratfor CEO admits credit card data was unencrypted and expects to be attacked again

January 12, 2012

Stratfor relaunched its website last night with its founder and CEO acknowledging its security failures but boldly saying that "the attempt to silence us failed".
 

Phishing campaign disrupts US-CERT

January 11, 2012

A phishing campaign has spoofed the US computer emergency readiness team (US-CERT) and hindered the organisation's ability to handle email.
 

Anonymous targets Finland over Pirate Bay blocking

January 11, 2012

An online anti-piracy group in Finland has been attacked by Anonymous after access was blocked to The Pirate Bay.
 

Microsoft and Adobe release first major patch bundles of 2012

January 11, 2012

Microsoft released seven bulletins last night to fix one critical issue on its first Patch Tuesday of 2012.
 

Law firm selects security from Check Point

January 10, 2012

International law firm Clifford Chance has deployed Check Point's R75 software blades to manage and secure its 3,200 legal advisors.
 

Infoblox DNS platform integrates Thales nShield hardware security module

January 10, 2012

Thales has announced that its nShield hardware security module (HSM) is now integrated with the Infoblox DNS platform to enable the simple and secure deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNS SEC).
 

Android capability added to Absolute solution

January 10, 2012

Absolute Software has launched theft recovery services for Android tablets.
 

Cyber Security Challenge winner appointed as security engineer

January 10, 2012

The winner of the SAIC Cyber Security Challenge has been appointed as a security engineer by RandomStorm.
 

Siemens Enterprise Communications selects Fortinet appliances

January 09, 2012

Siemens Enterprise Communications has deployed multiple FortiGate network security appliances for its OpenScape Cloud Services.
 

Stratfor data dump contained British military and political user passwords

January 09, 2012

The passwords of British defence, intelligence and police officials were among those posted online following the Stratfor attack.
 

Israeli government labels cyber attack 'a terrorist operation'

January 09, 2012

Israeli authorities have described a cyber attack last week as "a terrorist operation".
 

Symantec investigating hackers' claims about Norton source code being published

, January 06, 2012

Hackers have claimed to have lifted the source code for Symantec's Norton anti-virus with a view to post it publicly.
 

Microsoft to start 2012 with seven bulletins on Patch Tuesday

January 06, 2012

Microsoft has announced that it will release seven bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities on its first patch Tuesday of 2012.
 

User opposition to Facebook Timeline leads warnings about scam pages

January 05, 2012

Scammers are taking advantage of a Facebook user backlash against the Timeline profile feature by developing pages with deceptive instructions on how to revert to the old-style layout.
 

IBM finds Green Hat a good fit

January 05, 2012

IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire cloud software quality and testing solutions provider Green Hat.
 

Qualys partners MetricStream to build vulnerability detection and remediation framework

January 04, 2012

Qualys has announced a partnership with MetricStream to create a framework that enables customers to identify, report and remediate vulnerabilities.
 

Amazon Web Services offers security with gateways from Check Point

January 04, 2012

Check Point has announced that its security gateways for virtual environments are now available through Amazon Web Services.
 

Kaspersky: Stuxnet and Duqu were built on a platform that will yield more variants

January 04, 2012

The Stuxnet virus was likely to be one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform.
 

Anonymous to switch attention to doxing Sony executives after backtrack on fresh PlayStation attack

January 04, 2012

The Anonymous group threatened to bring down the Sony PlayStation network due to the technology giant's support for the proposed US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
 

KEMP Technologies launches server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers

January 04, 2012

The latest versions of server load balancer appliances and application delivery controllers have been launched by KEMP Technologies.
 

Microsoft publishes workaround for ASP.NET vulnerability

January 03, 2012

Microsoft published an advisory to provide a workaround to help protect ASP.NET customers from a publicly disclosed vulnerability that affects various web platforms.
 

Subway hackers used freely available tools and sold data via a file transfer site

January 03, 2012

The tools used in the Subway card skimming operation are widely available on the internet for anyone willing to take the risks.
 

City of Edinburgh Council reports cyber attack against debt advice records

December 23, 2011

The City of Edinburgh Council has revealed that its computer records have come under a cyber attack this week.
 
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