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Security appliances move to centre stage
News Sales of high-end security appliances have surged in the third quarter of 2003 as enterprises install them in their main networks, having seen lower-end devices prove themselves in branch offices, according to the latest figures from analyst firm...
[December 16, 2003, 15:35]
Security hole hits patched Internet Explorer
News The vulnerability effects versions 5.5 and 6.0 that have been patched with a security fix for a similar hole exposed in November by Finland-based security firm Oy Online Systems. The latest hole was discovered by security researcher Georgi Guninski.
[January 4, 2002, 8:48]
Google 'powerless' to stop AdSense theft
News Trojan.Qhost.WU, discovered by security firm BitDefender, has been designed to replace ads served by Google on third-party websites that use Google's AdSense network. Security firm Sophos earlier this year highlighted that as many as 30,000 new web...
[December 20, 2007, 7:32]
Macromedia Flash has critical vulnerability
News Security firm Secunia also classifies the vulnerability as highly critical. The bad guys have had a whole weekend to write exploits," Kristensen said.eEye Digital Security, a research firm, says it told Macromedia about the existence of the flaw on...
[November 7, 2005, 16:10]
Security contractors urged to take out personal indemnity insurance
News David Woods, an IT litigation specialist at law firm Masons, agreed that security consultants should take out indemnity insurance because they are at risk if their clients' systems are compromised. The increasing number of virus and worm attacks...
[June 2, 2004, 15:30]
HMRC fiasco: Security experts predict fallout
News Jonathan Armstrong, principal partner at law firm Eversheds, drew parallels with a similar security breaches in the US last year, when 26 million armed forces veterans' personal data was lost and when retailer TJX lost more than 90 million...
[November 23, 2007, 10:29]
SirCam to target Europe in new attack
News Security software firm Trend Micro said it has received reports from 332,000 PCs infected with the worm in the last 30 days. Click on the TalkBack button and go to the Security forum. When an infected computer starts up today, there is a 5 percent...
[October 16, 2001, 11:58]
Lycos anti-spam site hit by hackers
News Earlier this year, Symbiot, a Texas-based security firm launched a corporate defence system that was designed to fight back against DDoS and hacker attacks by launching a counter-strike. Security experts were alarmed at the company's attitude and...
[December 1, 2004, 8:05]
Security fears delaying IP networks
News According to Peterson, call centres in particular have fielded security as a reason to avoid switching to an IP network: "They don't want two devices with virus exposure on their desk. Security] is something CIOs think about along with their IP...
[May 4, 2005, 16:35]
Security hardware battle heats up
News ISS is not first to the field with many of these features, but the nice thing is it builds on an already strong deployment base," said Steven Hunt, president of 4H International, a strategic consulting firm for physical and IT security.
[April 5, 2005, 9:15]
Security pros: Our defences need work
News I look at that number and I am dumbfounded," said Peter Lindstrom, director of security strategies for the Hurwitz Group, an analyst firm. Though most corporate security professionals see network protection as critical, they have only made modest...
[September 10, 2002, 8:16]
Security calamity shakes US banks
News A UK-based computer expert has reported breaching security at some of the biggest Internet banks in America, gaining control of thousands of personal bank accounts. In the most serious Internet security incident to hit financial companies yet...
[September 25, 2000, 9:15]
Anti-spam firms hit back at Gartner claims
News Yesterday at Gartner's IT Security Summit, Gartner vice-president Victor Wheatman said that the level of spam getting through the network was falling and it was now possible to work again. But some delegates felt that the level of spam was also...
[September 21, 2004, 16:00]
Security chief quits Microsoft
News Stuart Okin, the public face of Microsoft UK's security work, has resigned from the software giant. Part of the role will be to help build up Microsoft security infrastructure at Accenture. Okin was appointed as Microsoft UK's first chief security...
[October 13, 2004, 17:15]
Security time bomb is triggered by 'rogue laptops'
News Unpatched notebook PCs are a weak link in enterprise security arrangements, experts warned on Friday. Many of these machines are behind a corporate firewall and have so far escaped infection, but security experts say they represent a security time...
[June 4, 2004, 18:00]
Security concerns hamper corporate Wi-Fi
News For a firm that doesn't believe there is a business case for installing a Wi-Fi network and risking compromising their security, the danger is that unauthorised access points will be secretly installed by staff.
[October 13, 2003, 16:40]
BT woos small firms with backups and wireless
News According to a BT spokesman, security concerns have been addressed with the inclusion of an integrated Internet firewall. Additional security advice will be available from the helpdesk. The backup product, called BT Datasure, is designed for a...
[December 8, 2003, 17:15]
Security firms leading the way for UK IT
News The security industry has been at the leading edge of IT innovation and growth in recent years and two of the UK's leading security sector CEOs last night did battle for the title of Technology Entrepreneur of the Year at a top London awards night.
[March 16, 2005, 10:00]
UK Web shoppers' details exposed
News Silicon.com heard about the security blunder from a reader called Derek (whose surname has been withheld for legal reasons), himself a lawyer, who was surfing sites after he entered his name into a search engine.
[August 13, 2002, 9:42]
Security firms scrap over 'mobile viruses'
News Few security companies have said antivirus protection for mobile phones is necessary. Antivirus firm Sophos has slammed a competitor's claims that it found the world's first "serious" mobile phone virus.
[September 23, 2005, 9:55]
