December, 2011:

City of Edinburgh Council reports cyber attack against debt advice records

Mozilla fixes crash issue in new version of Firefox

RSA's Art Coviello predicts 2012 to be the year of resiliency and adaptation

Facebook gets 'liked' by Irish Data Protection Commissioner

Cyber Security Challenge SAIC winners announced

US claims 12 Chinese groups are behind cyber attacks

Imation acquires intellectual property of Nine Technology

Cyber Ark announces $40m funding and new chairman

2012: security predictions for the future of mobile, cloud, attacks, data loss and big data

New versions of web and email gateways launched by Clearswift

Security bug in Windows 7 detected

Some good advice if you want to bring your own device to work

'I told you I was il': malicious spam namechecks dead North Korean leader

Bring your own device to work policies prove popular with large enterprises

Guidelines for issuing secure certificates published

Quest enhances identity portfolio with acquisition of fine-grained authorisation firm

2011: a year in headlines from SC Magazine, September to December

Adobe releases patches for critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader

LogLogic: The public cloud will be breached next year

Anonymous plans Christmas offensive with 'Lulzxmas' stealing from the rich and giving to the poor

Sophos supports four major mobile platforms with new version of Mobile Control

Young workers ignore IT policy and 'aren't responsible' for protecting data and kit

2011: a year in headlines from SC Magazine, May to August

Microsoft announces plans to silently update Internet Explorer

Mill Hill School selects next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks

Rumours of database security breach causes Romanian bank to block 17,000 cards

Advanced evasion techniques - protection and preventive measures

Quest Software offers plug-in for Sudo management

Thales rebrands encryption manager to offer key management solution

Certificate authority GlobalSign finds no evidence of rogue certificates

ICO claims websites must try harder on cookie compliance - and encourages looking at other sites for guidance

Microsoft slims final patch Tuesday of 2011 to 13 patches from proposed 14

Buffalo Technology partners with Trend Micro to offer security for storage

Quarri Technologies adds Android protection to 'Protect on Q' range

2011: a year in headlines from SC Magazine, January to April

Google removes malicious applications after 14,000 downloads

Arrests made by PCeU after phishing campaign investigation

RandomStorm announces CREST accreditation

Lack of privileged user management causes confidential details to be viewed

IT security 'lacking regulation'

Typosquatting increases as cyber criminals aim to catch out Christmas shoppers

Encryption is the front line of security, but IT employees realise the power of keys

Imation Mobile Security launches dedicated EMEA partner programme

Investment firm to acquire Blue Coat Systems

Engineering firm Babcock selects mobile device management from Good Technology

Dutch certificate authority reportedly hacked after access gained through PHP MyAdmin

Microsoft to release 14 bulletins for 20 vulnerabilities on final Patch Tuesday of the year

"Can you put that phone down dear, the Queen is on in a minute!"

Bradford Networks introduces network access control app for Apple devices

Jericho Forum to host new year webcast on identity issues

Lawsuit brought over vulnerability in HP printer

F5 opens EMEA tech centre

So who exactly is the brains behind the next-generation firewall, and is it something to take seriously?

Web applications continue to fail security tests, as XSS and SQL flaws remain a problem

Tenable integrates Microsoft, Red Hat and VMware patches into scanner

Adobe to release emergency patch for critical vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat

New data protection laws will see 'Blakey' in every business

Techniques for disguising hacker attacks

Largest ICO fine issued to Powys County Council for two breaches of sensitive data

Qualys integrates Selenium into web application scanner

Targeted attacks increase four-fold in 2011

Softek announces distribution partnership with McAfee, as anti-virus vendor confirms new CTO

Sophos expands endpoint security solution

M86 expands web filtering and reporting suite to include monitoring and control functions

It's not just a Secret Santa being opened at the workplace this month

SQL injection attack infects more than 4,000 websites

Data Protection Directive changes will 'be ineffective'

Sourcefire launches next generation firewall

The IPv6 switchover: what should enterprises be doing in preparation?

Security compliance and the cloud will help foster business innovation and borderless working in 2012

All hail Estonia?

Mobile app to offer SSL VPN from SonicWALL

Integralis acquires MSSP

Disguising hacker attacks - history and morphology of advanced evasion techniques

Cryptzone: councils' ICO fines could have been avoided

Never mind the malware - here's Google Android

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