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One in four children has attempted hacking with one fifth believing that they could generate an income from the activity

SC Staff March 18, 2010

A survey has found that one in four schoolchildren have attempted some level of hacking.

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society loses eight laptops and the personal details of 2,135 people

Dan Raywood March 18, 2010

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reported that the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society lost eight laptops and the personal details of 2,135 people.

The UK is leading the way in cyber security within the EU

Dan Raywood March 18, 2010

The UK has been declared as being 'reasonably well placed' to cope with a large-scale cyber attack.

Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft claim that weak passwords still cause security headaches

Dan Raywood March 18, 2010

The biggest problem with web security is still weak passwords, according to spokespeople from three major IT networks.

Sunbelt Software enhances VIPRE for enterprises and consumers, and introduces CounterSpy 4.0

Dan Raywood March 18, 2010

Sunbelt Software has announced upgrades to its VIPRE product line for enterprises and consumers.

Authentication and transaction sectors boosted with new solutions

SC Staff March 18, 2010

The banking and payment industries have been bolstered this week with new options in authentication and transaction checking.

A UK-specific banking malware is hitting users and proving difficult to detect for anti-virus vendors

Dan Raywood March 17, 2010

Warnings have been made about a piece of banking malware that specifically targets UK banks.

Ipswitch adds secure event log management capabilities following recent acquisition

SC Staff March 17, 2010

Ipswitch's network management division has announced the integration of secure event log management to its product offerings.

Microsoft action on Waledac saw between 70,000 and 90,000 users taken off the network, but computers remain infected and half are still trying to send spam

Dan Raywood March 17, 2010

Microsoft's takedown of 277 websites that hosted the Waledac botnet has severed almost 100,000 computers from the network.

Two-thirds of IT managers believe that they have underestimated the number of network issues arising from virtualisation

SC Staff March 17, 2010

Businesses believe that the network is hampering virtualisation efforts but say that virtualisation directly causes network performance issues.

Eleven per cent of people in the UK are victims of identity fraud

SC Staff March 17, 2010

One in ten people in the UK was a victim of online ID fraud within the last 12 months.

Open Rights Group claims BBC Panorama investigation into the Digital Economy Bill did not address human rights or the future of society

Dan Raywood March 16, 2010

An episode of the BBC's Panorama has looked at the challenges faced with downloading music as part of the Digital Economy Bill.

Koobface worm continues its wrecking path with a new surge in command and control servers over the weekend

SC Staff March 16, 2010

Following evidence detected last week by Kaspersky Lab that the Koobface botnet is able to refresh itself and double its number of command and control (C&C) servers in a 48-hour period, new research saw an increase over the last weekend.