April, 2010:

Cloud-based vulnerability service introduced by Webroot

Warnings of 'rogue code' as claims made that thousands of websites are already infected

Shavlik moves to protect and detect forgotten PCs in green initiative

Details of a postal vote leaked on Twitter by parliamentary candidate

Steve Jobs hits back at Adobe over claims that Apple is a closed system

Symantec confirms acquisition of PGP, winner of SC Magazine's information security vendor of the year

Session monitoring advanced with new solutions from e-DMZ Security

Infosecurity Europe: Data integrity attacks described as a future cyber crime threat

HP acquires Palm in a week when rumours about a takeover of a major security vendor persist

Survey finds that only 36 per cent of UK businesses use data loss prevention

Business Software Alliance agrees settlement with company for software infringement

Infosecurity Europe: A new wave of security breaches is hitting the UK with most companies ill-prepared to deal with them

Professional Monitor: in association with (ISC)2

Infosecurity Europe: Cisco makes first steps into cloud-based security after ScanSafe acquisition

Infosecurity Europe: Cloud products remain a concern, as users need to consider outsourced risk factors

Encryption and key management combined in desktop HSM device from Thales

Astaro previews new technology in WiFi, UTM and mail archiving

SC Magazine Awards Europe 2010 - winners announced

SC Think Tank: The problems of giving employees access to social media

Can you ever be wholly leakproof from data loss?

Vendors often over-emphasise malicious IT threats to help sell their products, but is this a case of crying wolf?

SC Executive Network: Sir Ian Blair on the problems of the insider threat and cyber terrorism

SC Magazine interview: Martyn Croft, chief information officer at the Salvation Army

Consultant's view: Shifting the focus to people

Being in a war zone can cause information security problems for the military

Infosecurity Europe: ICO speaks on future of regulation three weeks after its £500,000 fines were introduced

Infosecurity Europe: White Hat raises £100,000 for ChildLine

Social media remains a workplace concern, as businesses fail to harness Web 2.0

UK cyber security challenge launches to find the next generation of security experts

Next generation firewall introduced by McAfee

User account management tool launched by Stonewood

Splunk accidentally exposes user passwords following debug code implementation

Two-thirds of identity fraud victims blame the retailer, while 78 per cent report the incident to the police

Apple iPad targeted with malicious email promising iTunes upgrade, as Adobe confirms that it will work with other devices for Flash development

Cyber security centre launched by EADS

Cloud Industry Forum launches draft Code of Practice

Microsoft to patch Internet Explorer XSS filter in June after revelations at Black Hat

Opportunities and challenges in social networking

RSA introduces real-time identity verification service

Compromised accounts sold by the million on fraud forum

Disaster scenario access service introduced by Signify

Vulnerability Management Specialist

Data Loss Prevention Specialist

Laptop and mobile phone of Conservative parliamentary candidate stolen

Anti-virus vendors sympathise with McAfee over false positive problems, as warnings made of searches for a fix

McAfee mistakenly detects legitimate Windows system files as malicious in false positive nightmare

Head of Security Solutions, Standards and Assurance

Information Security Forum expands membership to SMEs

Attack Monitoring Specialist

Application Security Analyst

Proposals for the destruction of data will help with computer recycling

Systems Security Engineer

Veracode rolls out application testing service

Further Facebook changes bring fresh criticism over user privacy as it closes the Lite version of its site

Google gets a slapped wrist from collective privacy and information commissioners over Buzz failings

Professionals wildly underestimate the cost of data loss

Shavlik Technologies selected to support Microsoft configuration manager

If the main political parties are not talking about cyber security, what are the rest saying?

Google's 'Gaia' password system was infiltrated during January attacks

Norwegian prime minister, stuck in New York, runs the country from the Apple iPad

Security Scoreboard website elects CISO council with representatives from financial services and technology firms

Cyber crime attacks increase as malware trends plateaued in the last 12 months

Ipswitch launches new version of managed file transfer server

Gwent Police accidentally emails a file containing the personal details of over 10,000 people

Quantum cryptography takes a step forward as a continuous operation is successfully tested

BobBear to retire at the end of April and close his money mule and phishing awareness site

Equipment that contains data should have a facility to completely delete it with built-in privacy and security safeguards

WatchGuard launches quarantine management server

What are the main political parties really saying about cyber security?

Leaders debate fails to cover technology issues, as social networking sites experience huge traffic that causes Facebook application to crash

Israel bans imports of the Apple iPad, as NSA Lieutenant General claims it is 'wonderful'

Trend Micro rolls out Titanium netbook protection, as it confirms support

Facebook and YouTube dominate workplace traffic and bandwidth

Buckfast installs CCTV in a rare chance for SC to make some jibes about 'Wreck the Hoose Juice'

Panda Security introduces cloud-based internet protection solution

Cloud-based technology baffles the public as more than half of European citizens are confused over where their online data is stored

Apache Software Foundation confirms that it was attacked last week via employees clicking on an obfuscated weblink

Apple delays the release of the iPad outside the US, as security concerns persist about the operating system and applications

Facebook revamps safety centre after rejecting calls for a panic button

UK internet users are safe surfers but fail to take data security seriously

Check Point CEO claims that DLP solutions are not satisfactory and reflects on a year since the launch of software blades

Major patch updates from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle leave IT administrators with a lot to cover in April

Check Point introduces new software blades for data loss prevention and unified event management

SC Magazine introduces 'most influential 2010'

Ministry of Defence reports more than 1,500 data loss incidents in the last five years

Implementing ISO27001 in the real world

Claim made that organisations need to balance protection of data and secrets and view information in a more holistic fashion

Hewlett Packard completes acquisition of 3Com, as Google acquires British start-up Plink to enhance its Goggles service

Court rules against employer reading an employee's personal email in what could prove to be a landmark case

Talend brings together data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) within a single solution

Remote working and unauthorised application downloading are major concerns for IT managers in the next 12 months

Users warned about large bills for downloading data, as major updates are due for tomorrow

Network Solutions hole leads to some Wordpress blogs being hit by redirecting scripts that pointed visitors to malicious websites

Concerns have been raised over email abilities and the lack of a method to remotely wipe stored data on the Apple iPad

TalkTalk claims that it will seek a court order before surrendering customer details under the Digital Economy Act

Oracle to join Adobe and Microsoft in patching tomorrow, as it prepares plans for MySQL advisory boards

SC Magazine briefly gets its hands on the Apple iPad

Looking for Tiger Woods' Nike advert could lead to users being cheated into visiting malicious sites

Access to cloud services by standard passwords could cause a data security headache for businesses

South Korea accounts for the sending of a third of the world's malware

Adobe to address critical security issues in Adobe Reader and Acrobat next week

Microsoft to release 11 bulletins with five critical patches for Windows on its next Patch Tuesday

Federation Against Software Theft welcomes the Digital Economy Bill, as Cloud Industry Forum says that it is 'better than nothing'

Mozilla removes orphaned root certificate authority bug

Wikileaks.org cracks encryption of Reuters US military video which shows journalists being murdered

Digital Economy Bill passes through 'wash-up' in just over two hours as it heads back to the House of Lords for Royal Assent

German minister of consumer protection criticises Facebook's proposed third party sharing policy, as the site moves to clarify its plans

Ventura moves to PCI compliance with LogRhythm solutions

Digital Economy Bill expected to be made law tonight as yesterday's debate sees MPs call for a rewrite under a new government

Response to the introduction of £500,000 fines by the Information Commissioner's Office is positive, however firms need to take action on network and employee security

Rackspace introduces cloud server management application for the Apple iPad as spam is detected following its launch

Google further revamps Buzz network to confirm 'followers' and website connections

Law firms move into cloud-based security to protect networks

LogLogic joins the Cloud Security Alliance

Editor of SC to appear at special SIEM round table event in May

Apple releases iPad as a video shows it being jailbroken within hours

Election called for 6th May as technology-related bills look to be pushed through or left in the balance

Information Commissioner introduces £500,000 fines for data breaches

McAfee and Riverbed combine technologies to deliver virtual firewall with WAN optimisation solutions

Splunk introduces version 4.1 to include real-time search, analysis and monitoring

Administrators should not wait until after the Easter break to apply Microsoft's out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer

Government details key points of its 'Cyber Crime Strategy', as it acknowledges that it is a large and growing problem

Vietnamese users tied up in botnet that vendors claim is politically motivated

Claims made that personal knowledge questions are no longer viable for email

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