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From Network and Information Security Situation Analyse to Incidents Management
White Papers The influence of security incidents on electronic communications networks is constantly growing and it may be forecasted that in the future there will be much more incidents. This paper describes a broad look to the issues of electronic security...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News Top-level managers and chief executives often do not realise the impact that IT-security incidents can have on their organisations, according to influential group the British-North American Committee.
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
Survey: Security measures pay off
News Companies working to harden their security have found that the efforts have resulted in fewer incidents of unauthorised computer use and a decline in damages from security incidents, a computer security group said in a report released on Thursday.
[June 11, 2004, 12:35]
Microsoft decries information 'anarchy'
News Microsoft, whose software has been at the centre of several recent high-profile security incidents, has decided to turn up the heat on those the company considers at least partially responsible: security firms and hackers who release sample...
[October 18, 2001, 9:02]
Instant messaging attacks rise in 2005
News The MSN network experienced the largest number of IM security incidents in both 2004 and 2005, while year-on-year incident growth rates were largest on AOL's AIM network, according to the report, from IM security vendor FaceTime Communications.
[January 10, 2006, 15:50]
Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance
White Papers In fact, federal civilian agencies reported three times more cyber security incidents in 2008 than in 2006, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). And that's just the number of reported incidents; an official at the DHS believes...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2008: Annual Report
White Papers The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a project dedicated to maintaining a list of web application-related security incidents. The WHID's purpose is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of web application security problems and provide...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Chalking Up More Than $216,000 in IT Staff Time Savings With Symantec Solutions
White Papers Security incidents consumed 50 percent of their time before they discovered Symantec solutions in 1999. Since then, the staff has had no security incidents on servers and has seen up to 50 security incidents per month blocked on desktops and laptops.
[August 25, 2006, 0:00]
Your worst security threat: Employees?
News A third of these "worst" security incidents were virus infections, but there were also high incidences of other, more deliberately targeted attacks. The Information Security Breaches Survey 2002, sponsored by the Department of Trade and Industry...
[April 23, 2002, 11:49]
Viruses cause most security breaches
News The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) report into information security breaches found that approximately half of businesses said their worst security incidents over the past two years has been caused by virus infections, rather than other...
[February 28, 2006, 16:55]
Access hacks hit UK Plc
News For one in ten, the breach was significant, and half of all those affected said the breach was more serious than virus incidents, found the Information Security Breaches Survey, conducted by a consortium led by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the DTI...
[March 11, 2004, 9:15]
Cybercrime losses on the slide
News For the fourth straight year running, the financial losses incurred by businesses due to incidents such as hacked PCs have fallen, according to the 2006 annual survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI.
[June 15, 2006, 11:05]
FBI: Computer crime costs US firms $67bn
News These figures do not include much of the staff, technology, time and software employed to prevent security incidents, Verduyn said. The survey, released on Thursday, found that 1,324 respondents, or 64 percent, suffered a financial loss from...
[January 20, 2006, 9:30]
Internet security risk proves hard to measure
News We need more data, better data and different kinds of data," said Richard Power, editorial director for the Computer Security Institute, which produces a yearly survey that contains some of the most often cited -- and occasionally maligned -- data...
[January 21, 2002, 14:34]
Nearly half Net users put off by security fears
News In January, two UK banks, the Halifax and Egg.com, were both exposed by online security incidents which left customer information vulnerable. Standards watchdogs including the Consumer Association have repeatedly warned that such online security...
[October 11, 2000, 9:00]
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News Kennedy also revealed in answer to written questions from other MPs that, since 2005, HMRC has had 11 data-security incidents that have been serious enough to be reported to the data-protection watchdog.
[May 1, 2008, 14:38]
Reports predict IT security spending will skyrocket
News The number of reported security incidents has climbed from about 50,000 in 2001 to double that in 2002. A more questionable statistic is the number of unreported security incidents that Aberdeen sees as "climbing from 4.1m in 2001 and 7.9m in 2002...
[February 24, 2003, 13:09]
Is it boom time for IT security?
News A more questionable statistic is the number of unreported security incidents that Aberdeen sees as "climbing from 4.1 million in 2001 and 7.9 million in 2002, to 15.9 million in 2003. The number of reported security incidents has climbed from about...
[February 24, 2003, 10:50]
Report: Net attacks on businesses down
News The study also found that the number of severe incidents -- defined as access attempts that threaten to breach a network's security, rather than vandalise a site, for example -- had decreased, dropping to 21 percent in the latter half of last year...
[February 4, 2003, 8:18]
Blogging sites harbouring cybercriminals
News In the first two weeks of July, Websense's labs saw more than 500 incidents of such attacks, it said on Monday. For the year until mid-July, the company found a total of 2,500 incidents. Cybercriminals are increasingly using blog sites and other...
[July 26, 2005, 9:10]
