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Enisa: W3C web standards pose 51 security threats

...Emerging web standards have over 50 security design flaws, many of which could allow an... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Sharpen penetration tests to foil cybercrime

Sharpen penetration tests to foil cybercrime

...need to establish a basic understanding of the organisation's current security standards, as well as the overall business and security objectives. The testing itself... Read more

20 March, 2011 by Alan Calder

Poor password standards hit web, say researchers

...A lack of consistent password security standards damages web security, according to researchers from Cambridge University. Websites suffer from... Read more

8 June, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Google-backed DMARC system aims to block phishers

...Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal and others are working together on a standard that can be used across the internet for blocking phishing emails. On... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills
The c-words that curse data breaches

The c-words that curse data breaches

...companies storing credit card numbers anyway? The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires that payment card numbers are never stored without a... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Alan Calder

Microsoft rates WebGL as 'harmful'

...Microsoft has labelled the emerging 3D web graphics standard WebGL as "harmful", as a security firm raised new concerns about the... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Lack of metrics hobbles security, says Enisa

...Monday. This makes it difficult to measure resilience of networks. Some security standards, including ISO/IEC 27004:2009, NISTIR 7564, and NIST SP 800-55... Read more

28 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner
IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors

IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors

...as exponentially expanding the available address space, one single /64 allocation — the standard user allocation block — is enough to contain four billion times more addresses... Read more

4 June, 2011 by Rik Ferguson

Can mobile working set new standards of security

...Mundy stresses that a right-thinking CIO will not establish flexibility unless standards are in place. "Vodafone is expected to be one step ahead in... Read more

23 November, 2010 by Mark Samuels

John Suffolk: Cyber security needs international push

...cyber security needs to be tackled at an international level and global standards set, according to former government CIO John Suffolk. Speaking to silicon.com... Read more

23 May, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

W3C to develop peer-to-peer browser standards

...The World Wide Web Consortium is to develop standards to enable direct peer-to-peer communications between browsers, without the need... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

US and Australia team up on cybersecurity standards

The Australian Minister of Defence has said that, as part of a joint-defence agreement, Australia and the US will be collaborating on cybersecurity measures Read more

9 November, 2010 by Colin Ho

Berners-Lee: We need PGP for the people

...Berners-Lee invited security professionals to get involved in creating the web standards being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he is... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

EU warns web firms over 'do-not-track' timescale

...web companies that they need to agree on a do-not-track standard by mid-2012, otherwise the Commission will force them to ensure citizens... Read more

22 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Oracle to patch 73 holes in security update

...Sun Java System Messaging Server but will not include fixes for Java Standard Edition (SE) and Java for Business products. In October 2010, security vendor... Read more

15 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

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