March, 2010:

One year since Conficker failed to flicker into action, what have we learned?

SC Magazine's Dan Raywood discusses US opposition to the Australian web filter on BBC World News

Reports made that Yahoo accounts of foreign journalists based in China and Taiwan have been hacked as Google comments on user problems accessing the Hong Kong site

Durex leak reveals customer details, in a week where data loss has risen to incredible levels

Microsoft covers two Internet Explorer 8 vulnerabilities with out-of-band patch, as it refuses to comment on whether the update patches the vulnerability that was used in the 'pwn2own' contest

More than a third of companies fail to deploy data loss prevention technology

Barnet Council reports data loss affecting year 11 pupils but chief executive confirms that equipment was encrypted and member of staff has been suspended

How seeking 'Disney's Most Shocking Hidden Message' can lead you into a malicious trap

US student loans guarantor confirms data loss of records of 3.3 million people with names, addresses and Social Security numbers and dates of birth included

Companies have not explained the details of the Information Commissioner's £500,000 fines to employees

National Fraud Authority offers support for the Get Safe Online initiative

St Albans City and District Council found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner after last year's laptop theft

Microsoft announces out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer that will be released tonight, as Apple patches Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6

Using pattern-based strategies to spot fraud and improve security

How phishers are using new tactics to lure unsuspecting users in a classic format

Could blocking access to webmail save you from insider threat problems, and what are the ethics behind scanning sent emails?

Facebook makes changes to privacy policy with clearer guidance on retaining information, as warnings made of rogue anti-virus relating to the website

ZyLAB and iCritical launch new email archiving tools to boost sector

USB stick containing social services' information found on a pavement

Two new anti-spam hardware appliances introduced by CronLab

Users are aware of the dangers of malware but continue to click on spam emails and suspicious websites

Spam continues to be sent from countries as wide as the US, Brazil and China

The risk of mobile spyware is increasing as network-hosted defence encouraged

TJ Maxx hacker Albert Gonzalez sentenced to 20 years for his part in the compromise of almost 100 million credit and debit cards

Wikipedia brought offline for several hours following outage caused by overheating on Wednesday evening

Labour of love: nurturing a culture of loyalty and trust

Look after your smartphone, and your smartphone will look after you

Pwn2Own contest sees Apple iPhone, IE8, Firefox and Safari hacked

Open Rights Group demonstrates against the Digital Economy Bill, as parliament confirms date for second reading

Twitter reports that levels of spam on the site are dropping

Warnings made of toolbars that direct to a Facebook phishing page

FSA investigation leads to insider trading arrests, as Oracle claims that IT systems can increase the levels of protection

Web categorisation technology introduced in software kit by Bloxx

Could The Pirate Party's manifesto have a bearing on the mainstream party plans?

Camelot looks to secure payment services and improve compliance with LogRhythm implementation

Level of qualification in the security and IT industry is low but budgets are not allowing for training

Insider threat and data loss can be brought under control with effective end-user behaviour

Security conference gets underway, with the revealing of 20 zero-day flaws in Apple's OS X expected to be the highlight

Warnings made of backdoor Trojan disguised as a download for a Skype Email Toolbar

Sunbelt Software enhances CWSandbox and incorporates file detection and analysis

Claims made that the Digital Economy Bill will cause the end of public WiFi, as Open Rights Group plans demonstration tomorrow

Comments made on deleting data, as organisations struggle to securely and compliantly remove files

Conservative effort at social media experiment leaves open source Cash Gordon site directing to adult and Labour Party websites

Google begins close down of Chinese domain as it redirects searches to Hong Kong

Confusion among regulations and standards leaves organisations baffled in a 'privacy puzzle'

A simple login to the mygov portal will make it vulnerable to keylogging and phishing attacks

Efficient hard drive destruction solution set to be given rollout at Infosec with charity drive announced

German government encourages users to switch browsers away from Firefox due to remote code vulnerability

Prime Minister details Digital Britain plans with super fast broadband, an online dashboard of services and an institute to realise advances of the web

Phishing attack seen on Twitter over the weekend, as new messages claiming to be password resets for Facebook hit users on a large scale

BitDefender hit by false positive nightmare, as security and Windows files are detected as a Trojan and quarantined

Google introduces open source security testing tool

The end of the computer is predicted, as Kaspersky CEO says that the future is with the smartphone device

Privileged user management remains a challenge when it comes to embedded passwords or poor control of user access

Criticism and support given for the Digital Economy Bill as it nears Royal Assent ahead of an expected election

Generation Y needs more education on identity theft as it deems it not to be a concern

Home secretary declares that Facebook has not objected to the installation of a Child Exploitation and Online Protection panic button

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

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

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

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

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

Authentication and transaction sectors boosted with new solutions

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

Ipswitch adds secure event log management capabilities following recent acquisition

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

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

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

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

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

NetClean introduces child abuse scanning software to tackle workplace problems

Microsoft releases workaround to patch Internet Explorer 6 and 7 remote code execution vulnerability

CronLab revamps licensing model for email scanning

Sarah Palin may attend the trial of her Yahoo account hacker

Facebook users warned of new malicious application that claims to show who looks at your profile

Who really is responsible for allowing and monitoring social networking use?

Jericho Forum introduces self-assessment tool to meet with its eleven commandments

Technology solutions can be the resolution to terrorist threats

Home secretary Alan Johnson still believes Gary McKinnon should be extradited and claims that the criminal justice system is there to be used

Stonesoft ensures the working day is uninterrupted with new version of the StoneGate SSL VPN virtual appliance

SC Magazine Data On The Move conference confirms speakers and venue

Former Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Ian Blair speaks on the danger cyber terrorism could have on the UK, along with organised hackers and the insider threat

Anti-virus is becoming obsolete, as full content scanning is needed on web pages

Employee of HSBC steals information of 24,000 customers

Koobface is able to refresh itself and increase its command and control servers

More than half of business managers in the UK switch off encryption while a third write down keys and passwords

Another day, another celebrity death

Smartphones should have the ability to scan applications, as suspicions are raised about the validity and safety of downloads

Online fraud levels increase as positive signs are seen over card fraud

Payment validation boosted by real-time solution from Unified Software

CA set to complete another acquisition with performance and availability monitoring solutions provider in sight

US Department of Homeland Security's website for Iowa vandalised by hackers

Microsoft rolls out Internet Explorer workaround for zero-day vulnerability, as important issues are addressed on Patch Tuesday

National news on stalking and grooming creates call for better personal security

M86 Security rolls out Web Filter and Reporter appliance

Authentication manager introduced by Passlogix for Windows

Could effective log management and SIEM have prevented the Wyndham Hotels incident?

Colorado bank locks down debit cards after links made to Heartland breach

Global survey claims that access to the internet is a fundamental right, as less than half believe it is a safe place to express opinions

USB battery charger executes backdoor Trojan

RSA Conference 2010 keynote videos available on SC website

Cloud security considerations addressed to encourage confidence among businesses

RSA Conference 2010: Al Qaeda 2.0 and the rise of the robots

Phishing detections drop as cyber criminals look to new brand hijacking opportunities

More respect and appropriate salaries are on the wish list for IT workers on International Women's Day

Will the internet become strangled as a result of bandwidth demands?

To be completely patched requires an average of between 51 and 86 actions per year

Guide to surviving software compliance introduced by FAST

Why is restricting access to cardholder data the biggest challenge of PCI DSS compliance?

SC Forum 2010 confirms dates and first speaker

Tories and Liberal Democrats make changes to the Digital Economy Bill to order web blocking, as predictions made that it will become law in the next two months

Microsoft will cover eight 'important' vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday, as it gives dates for the end of support for Windows 2000 and Vista RTM

Information Commissioner introduces guidelines for data protection best practice

New Webroot CEO sets out his stall at RSA and promises change and refocused business

Merchants seemingly on a mission to fail compliance tests as a quarter admit that they do not know if they will meet the September deadline

Staffing levels expected to rise in IT departments, while many managers believe economic conditions are creating a security risk

Botnet of almost 13 million compromised computers shut down following international law and security intervention

US cyber security coordinator Howard Schmidt details initiatives at RSA Conference

Shavlik introduces 'SCUPdates' to manage patching for multiple applications

RSA Conference 2010: Scott Charney, Enrique Salem; the keynotes dissected

ClickandBuy launches payment transfer application on Facebook

Digital Economy Bill criticised by the House of Lords, as details revealed on whether internet cafes, libraries and universities are service providers

Banks encouraged to implement decent multi-factor authentication to securely offer online banking

IT managers lack knowledge of Web 2.0 use on their networks

WatchGuard enhances security appliances for small and medium sized businesses

RSA Conference 2010: The dream at the heart of Cisco's vision

USB that creates a secure virtual workspace with encrypted data transfer introduced by Check Point

Facebook pages requesting testers for the Apple iPad unsurprisingly lead to suspicious links

Spam continues to surge as URL filtering fails to spot malicious sites

New camera phone application that links personal information to a photo raises fears over personal security, but developer claims that criticism is unjustified

More than half of applications are vulnerable to security breaches, as Microsoft confirms it is looking into an issue regarding malicious content hosting

Specific healthcare division introduced by Imprivata

SC Magazine Q&A with former information commissioner Richard Thomas

Trojans produced by criminal gangs are on the warpath

Facebook to remove notifications for applications from today, with new tools added

Restricting access to cardholder data is the biggest challenge of PCI-DSS compliance

Wyndham Hotel group hacked over three-month period to leave customer credit card data compromised

Analysis: What will the next decade bring in the information security world?

Qualys to launch malware detection and website scanning with approval seal this week

Imperva adds alert and detection against large-scale attacks to web application firewall

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Employee file sharing: the good, the bad and the ugly

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SC Webcasts

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2013's invisible network threats: Identify and respond

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SC Whitepapers

Java security: Balancing existing testing platforms with open source solutions

In a rush to get new products out to market quickly, companies expose themselves to the risk of software failure. Java developers often turn to open source solutions to help protect themselves from risk. This new whitepaper explains how you can use your existing testing platforms alongside open source solutions to fix those issues related to both security and quality within your Java code. To download the paper for free, please click here.


DDoS and downtime: Considerations for risk management

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Ponemon 2012 Global Encryption Trends Study

In Ponemon's recent Global Encryption Study, the organisation surveyed 4,205 information security professionals across seven countries to examine how encryption has evolved over the last eight years. The study focused on data protection priorities, budgeted expenditures for encryption and the types of encryption technologies involved, with the findings revealing some interesting insight into the relationship between encryption and its impact on the security position of organisations. To read the full report for free, please download it here.


Advanced spear phishing: The rise of industrial phishing attacks

With phishing still the most common form of attack, hackers are now engaging in industrial-scale phishing attacks that leverage sophisticated customisation and delivery techniques. Borrowing tactics from cloud computing and database marketing, this study looks at longline phishing - an advanced form of spear phishing, which has higher clickthrough and penetration rates than traditional attacks, potentially causing a higher risk to IT security departments across the world. To read the study for free, please click here.


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