Latest Cyber Security articles

Cyber crime fighters must focus on risk management, rather than prevention

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Security professionals should not waste time on low-level threats, says Royal Holloway Information Security expert. And learn from their mistakes
30 May 2012

Office of Cyber Security suggests new standards to raise awareness of cyber crime

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Disclosure, insurance deals and kitemarks the way forward, says director James Quinault
30 May 2012

Security monitoring of employee behaviour on the rise – Gartner

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Two-thirds of companies will have formal monitoring programmes by 2015, with social media the focus, say analysts – but there are risks
29 May 2012

Flame virus: son of Stuxnet uncovered in Middle East

Complex malware ‘developed by a government agency’ said to be undetectable by anti-virus and anti-malware programmes
29 May 2012

EU cookie implementation deadline is today

Companies are complying with regulation, but with varying levels of commitment
25 May 2012

Most UK businesses expect cyber attacks to increase

A third of UK businesses believe an attack could cost more than £50m
17 May 2012

Kaspersky Lab backtracks on statement, clarifies relationship with Apple

Security tests were not invited, but Apple is "open to collaboration", claims outspoken Kaspersky CTO
14 May 2012

Apple OS "really vulnerable", claims Kaspersky Lab CTO (UPDATED)

Claims Apple too slow on security in wake of malware attacks
14 May 2012

Nine out of 10 custom-built web applications vulnerable to attack

Meanwhile security firms are criticised for trading in zero-day flaws
10 May 2012

Supplier security audits on rise, but questions over cloud ignored

Upsurge in supplier security auditing, according to HP security experts
10 May 2012

Microsoft releases critical security update

Patches are released for Microsoft Office, Windows, .NET Framework and Silverlight
09 May 2012

ENISA criticises lack of international cohesion on cyber security

Agency demands greater international collaboration and better information sharing between public and private sectors
09 May 2012

Chief security officers becoming more strategic, says IBM

Critical importance of CISO role increasingly recognised by the best companies - survey
06 May 2012

SOCA website brought down by cyber criminals (UPDATED)

Crime agency's website taken offline by DDoS attack
03 May 2012

Remote working during the Olympics

Cesare Garlati, director of consumerisation at Trend Micro, discusses what enterprises need to consider as large numbers of staff prepare to work remotely during the Games
02 May 2012

Pirate Bay could look to "circumvent" High Court's ban of its website

ISPs wouldn't be liable for illegal website that uses proxy servers, says lawyer
01 May 2012

‘Stolen’ VMware source code to be released on Saturday

The source code dates back as far as 2003 and 2004
01 May 2012

To fine or not to fine: The ICO and the NHS

Why NHS organisations lose so much data – and why the Information Commissioner lets them off with little more than a warning
27 Apr 2012

Companies failing cloud security test

Organisations are failing to conduct vital due diligence on their choice of cloud computing partners
25 Apr 2012

Record level of hacking revealed in annual PwC security survey

One in seven large organisations have been hacked in the past year
25 Apr 2012

MoD chief: There is more risk than ever of data being compromised

Captain Simon Wise says the MoD is continually under cyber attack
25 Apr 2012

Cashless Olympics increases opportunities for cyber criminals

A security expert has suggested that NFC technology can be used to steal sensitive card data with the swipe of a phone
24 Apr 2012

Severe attacks against corporate computers increasing – report

Known vulnerabilities in commercial applications are declining, but ‘severe' attacks have increased against both client/server and web applications
23 Apr 2012

Oracle fixes 88 security flaws in critical patch update

Multiple products are affected by the updates, including Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Database Server, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Sun products
19 Apr 2012