Small Business?
Talkback Why would a small business have any interest in this at all? The company I work for backs up all it's dynamic data daily on a series of 2G USB sticks (one per day). There is then a more detailed... [21 Nov 2009]
Climate research centre compromised
Blog One of the UK's leading climate change research centres has had a security breach. The Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) suffered a compromise of information, a UEA... [20 Nov 2009]
Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
News Organisations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency [20 Nov 2009]
- Small Business? - Tezzer
Cisco targets security professionals with iPhone app
News The company's new App Store entry features customised alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device [20 Nov 2009]
UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
News Two people were arrested in Manchester earlier this month on suspicion of distributing the Zeus banking Trojan [19 Nov 2009]
'Cloud vendors unprofessional', says analyst
Blog An analyst has launched a broadside at cloud computing vendors, accusing them of being immature, and offering few real protection for their data. Camille Mendler, VP of research at Yankee... [19 Nov 2009]
Government web-monitoring plans on hold
Blog Government plans to compel ISPs to process and store details of all web communications have been put on hold until after the next election. The Home Office told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the... [18 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile workers accused of selling customer data
News The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating accusations that T-Mobile employees sold millions of customer details [18 Nov 2009]
Police right to hand over seized hardware, says judge
News The police were acting within the law when they handed evidence to a private company after the CPS declined to pursue a public prosecution, a judge has ruled [17 Nov 2009]
- Shocking... - CA
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McAfee: Countries gearing up for cyber war
News The US, Israel, Russia, China and France are preparing for cyber offensives, according to a new McAfee report [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft working on fix for Windows 7 SMB hole
News The company has warned customers that exploit code for the Server Message Block hole is available, and has suggested a workaround until a patch is ready [16 Nov 2009]
VeriSign: Major internet security update by 2011
News The organisation has said it will close a major attack vector in internet addressing in under two years [16 Nov 2009]
UK cybersecurity centre starting operations in March
News The agency responsible for UK cyberdefence will recruit people who 'understand the teenage hacker mentality' from within UK intelligence and law enforcement [13 Nov 2009]
MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency
News Home secretary Alan Johnson should use his discretion in deciding whether extradition to the US would breach Gary McKinnon's rights, according to the Home Affairs Select Committee [12 Nov 2009]
MoJ consults on £500k data breach fines
News Under government plans, organisations could be fined up to half-a-million pounds for serious data breaches [12 Nov 2009]
DNA details of innocent will be kept for six years
Blog The government has announced that it plans to keep innocent people's DNA details for up to six years. In response to a consultation it launched last December, the government said in a statement... [11 Nov 2009]
Facebook denies mass hijack was down to flaw
News The social-networking site has said no user data was in danger when almost 300 user groups were taken over by privacy campaigners [11 Nov 2009]
Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea
News The home secretary says he will decide 'quickly' whether psychiatric evidence regarding Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon is enough to keep him in the UK [11 Nov 2009]
Eastern Europeans charged with RBS WorldPay hack
News The defendants are accused of hacking into the payment processor network and running 'one of the most sophisticated computer hacking rings in the world' [11 Nov 2009]
Microsoft patches critical hole in Windows kernel
News November's Patch Tuesday features fixes for holes in Windows, Excel and Word, including a critical bug affecting the Windows kernel [11 Nov 2009]
Gov't stands firm on web-monitoring plans
News The government has said it wants ISPs and telecoms companies to retain records of all internet communications, despite fierce criticism in a consultation paper [10 Nov 2009]
Apple update tackles domain spoofing, other attacks
News The security update for Mac OS X addresses 43 specific issues, including holes that could allow an attacker to take over the computer [10 Nov 2009]
Google fixes risky Chrome bugs
News A flaw in Gears could allow a malicious website to take control of a user's system, according to Google [09 Nov 2009]
Rickroll virus attacks iPhones
News The 'ikee' worm replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley [09 Nov 2009]
Government curbs councils' Ripa powers
News Local councils will need authorisation from senior executives, rather than junior managers, to conduct surveillance on citizens [04 Nov 2009]
Facebook checks where you're logging in from
Blog Here's something I didn't know: Facebook keeps track of where you normally log in from, and uses this information to increase the security of your account. If you try to log in from an unusual... [30 Oct 2009]
Guardian UK Jobs site hacked, user data breached
Blog The Guardian Jobs website has come under attack from a 'sophisticated and deliberate hack' that has exposed sensitive data, according to an email sent to affected users on Saturday. The breach... [25 Oct 2009]
Natwest systems failure causes outage
Blog Natwest's computer systems experienced problems that lead to service outages, according to reports by bloggers and Twitter users. Dan Stuchbury, a developer who lives in Wiltshire, blogged on... [23 Oct 2009]
RSA: Resistance is futile
Blog Companies need to embrace consumer and Web 2.0 technologies, rather than ban them, according to security vendor RSA. Christopher Young, RSA senior vice president of products, told an audience at... [20 Oct 2009]
CIA-backed firm invests in social media monitoring
Blog A CIA-sponsored investment company called In-Q-Tel has bought into Visible Technologies, a company that provides a social media monitoring technology called truCast. TruCast powers services that... [20 Oct 2009]
