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British companies are still failing to take simple steps to protect sensitive data – mainly because they have still not worked out which of their information should be protected and who should have access.
Oct 29, 2008
Proposals to make security breaches a criminal offence have received general approval from industry and legal circles. But most experts agree that implementation of any new laws could be tricky.
The proposals are made in a report entitled Protection... More... Jan 16, 2008
A poor understanding of the Data Protection Act is creating unnecessary restrictions on the use of personal data in organisations, and is forcing employees to by-pass security in order to get their jobs done.
According to new research from IT... More... Apr 3, 2008
British workers are the most likely to open dodgy-looking emails than any other developed nation except the Chinese, according to new research by Cisco on the habits of corporate workers. While only 25% of US workers, 23% of French workers and 28% of Japanese... More... Feb 11, 2008
Wireless security company AirPatrol is set to enter Europe, and promises to close off threats ranging from hackers to microwave ovens.
Chief executive Nicholas Miller said the Vancouver-based company would be setting up in Europe within the next... More... Feb 25, 2008
If anyone still needed convincing, new research has confirmed that British customers really will desert companies that suffer serious security breaches. Not only that, but the cost of investigating and responding to a breach generally outweighs the...
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Feb 25, 2008
The introduction of electronic identity cards in the UK has been one of the most contentious proposals from the Government. Critics have argued the plans are poorly thought out, use the wrong technologies, lack security and have been promoted for the...
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May 14, 2008
The voicemail was from someone at my bank asking me to call to discuss a "problem with one of your accounts." My mind raced. Had I gone into the red with am extravagant purchase? Had I exceeded my credit limit?
Or was the call really from my bank? Was it a scammer... More... May 19, 2008
In April, PGP issued the results of a survey of nearly 650 UK-based IT and business managers, analysts and executives, in which it had asked them about their usage of encryption. In one respect, the findings looked positive. The number who said they were using... More... May 16, 2008
How sure are you that your staff is not visiting infected websites, and that your current defences are keeping out all malware?
Security company Finjan Inc. says your defences are probably not up to scratch and is prepared to prove it -- for free. Any company... More... Nov 14, 2008
Database security specialist Secerno Ltd. has teamed up with system monitoring company ArcSight Inc. in a move it says will improve the way that companies track usage of sensitive data.
Oxford-based Secerno has re-engineered parts of its product to... More... Sep 11, 2008
Hand on heart, do you really know what software is running on your systems, and how much of it is paid for? Do you know how much software you've bought that never gets used?
Those who can answer 'yes' to both questions are a small minority. The fact is that most... More... Aug 6, 2008
The government is pumping more than £7m into a new police unit dedicated to battling Internet-based crime, but the person in charge says industry will have to help if it is to be a success.
The creation of the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) is intended to... More... Oct 1, 2008
EDS could face stiff financial penalties after it emerged that the IT contractor has lost a portable hard drive containing the personal details of about 100,000 members of the British armed forces. Some staff could also be prosecuted under the...
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Oct 10, 2008
New powers being sought by the Information Commissioner will allow his office to make unannounced swoops on companies it suspects of wrongdoing, and in the worst cases, to impose fines of up to 10 per cent of the culprit's annual turnover.
Richard Thomas... More... Oct 30, 2008
A new certification programme launched by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2) this week aims to make security a higher priority among software developers, and to ensure that security is incorporated...
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Sep 24, 2008
Imagine the scene. It's a cold day in London but inside Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, the temperature is rising fast. People are beginning to sweat in their winter clothes, and the check-in staff is wilting under the heat. Suddenly, the fire extinguishers go...
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Sep 19, 2008
Security professionals can get into heated arguments over the relative virtues of intrusion detection versus intrusion prevention systems. But what they can't deny is that both approaches have their weaknesses, and neither does a perfect job.
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Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) has struggled to fulfil its promise to become the accepted mechanism for managing users on a network. Perceived complexity and high costs have deterred most organisations from adopting it.
But could it make a comeback as... More... Apr 11, 2008
A survey of more than 1,000 British people has shown that only one in 10 trusts the Government to look after personal data properly.
By contrast, people were more prepared to provide information to their employers or to banks, but online retailers are... More... Mar 20, 2008
A group made up of Government, industry and universities is aiming to pull together ideas on best practice for secure coding. The results of their work will play a role in developing a new pan-European standard. The group met last week under the auspices of... More... May 19, 2008
DDOS attacks and other network threats, such as rapid propagation worms, pose a constant threat to any organisation trying to use the Internet. The rise of huge botnets has only increased the dangers and made it harder to defend against the attacks that...
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Apr 17, 2008
If we all keep our anti-virus software up to date, we'll be fine, won't we? Well yes, probably – for the time being at least.
Most of us trust our anti-virus software to defence us because the AV companies appear to have won the battle with the virus-writers. They... More... Apr 14, 2008
Four out of 10 large British companies are so worried about what their employees are doing that they employ people to read the content of outgoing emails, a new survey has found. This level of apparent distrust seem to be higher than in other... More... May 21, 2008
Always looking for an easy target, hackers and other digital criminals who normally target banks and other large organisations are increasingly turning their attention toward charities.
The most dramatic example came at the end of June, when... More... Jul 3, 2008
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