09May 2008
Senators want answers on President Bush’s secret cyber security initiative
Two influential US senators are demanding more information about the so-far, ultra-secret Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), which is being put in place to protect the nation’s infrastructure against cyber terrorists and criminals.
02 May 2008
Poor programming practices to blame for website hacks, analysts say
Security advisors have blamed sloppy work by programmers for the latest round of China-based hacker attacks on hundreds of thousands of websites.
01 May 2008
Facebook applications exposed as security risk
Speculation on the security of social networking has increased amid reports that applications on Facebook are capable of collecting personal information.
24 April 2008
Show floor security software is “snake oil”
BT’s security expert Bruce Schneier was scathing about lots of security software calling it “snake oil” in an interview this week.
23 April 2008
Jericho Forum unveils new security framework for online usage
The Jericho Forum has unveiled a new security framework for interactive business Internet users.
21 April 2008
Oklahoma Department of Corrections leaks personal data from website
Thousands of residents of Oklahoma state in the US have found their personal details have been freely available on the web for three years.
16 April 2008
Customers “clamoring”
for self-encrypting hard drives
Seagate Technology has debuted a new
breed of self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers
and storage arrays.
16 April 2008
Security Officer should have more
strategic role
When it comes to defining what a Chief
Security Officer does in an enterprise think less of a corporate cop
and more of a business enabler. That was the message at the RSA Conference
from Dave Hansen, former CIO at CA and now a senior vice president
and general manager of the company’s Security Management business.
15 April 2008
Apacs says phishing scams up 200%
for first quarter
UK payments association Apacs has reported
more than 10,000 phishing incidents for the first quarter this year
- up 200% on the same quarter last year.
14 April 2008
Intel and partners working on 'Liberty
Sim' authentication
Chipmaker Intel is working on an identity
authentication system it will build into its products to provide what
it claims is vastly greater confidence in web-based transactions.
But it may be five years before it is commercially available.
14 April 2008
IT lobbying groups merge
Building a powerhouse cyber security public advocacy group, two leading technology lobbying groups, the Information technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), announced their intent to merge.
04 April 2008
Microsoft joins MIT Kerberos Consortium
Microsoft has joined the MIT Kerberos Consortium as a founding sponsor, joining Sun Microsystems, Google and Apple on the consortium’s executive board.
26 March 2008
US Lawmakers Upset at Breach News Delay
US lawmakers are asking why a stolen laptop, which had medical test results for 2,500 patients in a National Institute of Health study, was not encrypted.
26 March 2008
Secure Computing delivers new generation of email security appliances
Secure Computing has announced a new version of its on-premise email security product, Secure Mail (formerly known as IronMail).
25 March 2008
Tech entrepreneur takes on cybersecurity reins
The Bush Administration has tapped Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod Beckstrom as the first Director of the National Security Center (NCSC), which was created in January.
25 March 2008
Cyber Storm 2 exercise reveals security preparedness
Cyber Storm II, the world's largest international cyber security exercise so far, ended on Friday (15 March 2008). Undoubtedly, the US Department of Homeland Security-sponsored event will report it as a resounding success and learning experience in its final report due in late summer.
20 March 2008
Sun and NSA to beef up OpenSolaris security
The US National Security Agency (NSA) and Sun Microsystems have agreed to jointly work within the OpenSolaris community to develop new security mechanisms for the operating system.
19 March 2008
IBM acquires Encentuate to extend network security offering
IBM has acquired enterprise identity and access management software firm Encentuate to extend its network security offering.
14 March 2008
Two US companies own up to breaches
On a regular basis, companies are having to own up to data breaches. HealthNow New York and MTV Networks are just the latest two making security gaffes.
14 March 2008
US Department of Homeland Security holds biggest ever cybersecurity exercise
The US Department of Homeland Security is this week conducting the largest cybersecurity exercise ever organised, with the UK participating.
11 March 2008
Financial services firms set to invest in IT risk management
Global financial firms will invest heavily this year in software to integrate risk management systems across their IT infrastructures, according to a study by Ernst & Young.
07 March 2008
Cyber security lacking at airports
Fourteen airports in the US, Canada and Asia, are using open or poorly secured wireless networks, according to a study by Gartner Mobile and wireless provider AirTight Networks.
04 March 2008
Counterfeit Cisco gear threatens network security
The seizure of £38m worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment has raised concerns over the security of networks.
29 February 2008
Federal agencies need to bolster information security
Many US federal agencies continue to experience significant information security control deficiencies
22 February 2008
Malware protection before infection
A US Department of Homeland Security-funded research program will help deliver Endeavor Security’s new method of targeting botnet and malware attacks before hosts are infected.
14 February 2008
Fewer victims of identity
fraud suffer greater losses
Cost of average incident rises by a quarter to $691
8 February 2008
Getting real
over Real ID
Analysis: No states have complied with the federal deadline
for new driving licenses, and five have refused outright. What next
for Real ID?
1 February 2008
ChoicePoint
settles class action suit for $10m
Personal data trader says SEC has concluded investigation
of three-year old data breach
25 January 2008
CIA
claims hackers attack global power grid
Analyst Ton Donahue tells SANS conference of extortion attempts
by cybercriminals
17 January 2008
Many Oracle
enterprises ignore its patches, says study
Two-thirds of attendees at US Oracle user group meetings have
never applies CPUs
14 January 2008
SANS Institute reveals
top 10 cyber threats for 2008
Trusted web sites will be exploited to spread malware, experts
believe
10 January 2008
FAA Plays Down Boeing
787 Security Concerns
Regulator points out link of passenger and operational networks
on new plane
8 January 2008
TV presenter “wrong”
after bank account scam
BBC America star hit by data theft
7 January 2008
Firefox flaw allows password hack,
says researcher
Israeli researcher says latest version of alternative browser
has problems with log-ons
7 January 2008
Flash users hit by cross-site scripting
flaw
US-Cert warns of input validation flaw
2 January 2008
Better job prospects for
infosecurity staff, says SANS
Mobile phones, social engineering and Olympics will add
to 2008 risks, according to industry
13 December 2007
US-CERT: hackers are attacking
flaw in Microsoft Access
Organisation warns of stack buffer overflow vulnerability
10 December 2007
A year of sophisticated web
threats
MP3 attachments make their debut, finds MessageLabs' security
report
7 December 2007
IBM buys Arsenal
Data protection firm follows Princeton Softech
7 December 2007
SANS: crooks turn fire on users and
custom software
Top 20 highlights spear phishing danger
29 November 2007
Government systems to be targeted
by cyber attacks
Report says UK, US and Germany state-sector bodies are likely
targets
28 November 2007
Webroot buys Email Systems
US firm promises it will support existing customers and
installations
26 November 2007
RSA standard vulnerable,
says founder
Adi Shamir says flaw in a widely-used microchip could allow
encryption to be "trivially broken"
20 November 2007
UK government loses data
on 25m Britons
HM Revenue and Customs chairman resigns over computer discs
lost in the post
15 November 2007
Google enhances Postini hosted
e-mail security offering
Search engine giant adds content-based policy option for
message-scanning
15 November 2007
Enhanced Sophos appliances block
e-mail data leaks
Hardware can scan and encrypt outbound content
