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Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge
Comment During the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the earliest insights to what was happening on the ground came via Twitter. When a confused whale swam up the Thames in London, the first pictures on Sky News came... [12 May 2009]
Cyber attack warning for London 2012 Olympics
News The ability to link these attacks together would lead to no transport, no accommodation, that tickets are not valid and that communications have broken down," said Blunkett. He added that the US government had warned of... [28 Apr 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment Layoffs, rising prices, attacks on women. Pink slips in the outsourcing industry, the gruesome terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year, and a spike in moral policing in pubs and night clubs have stirred... [21 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The PCeU is already working with government agencies, businesses and banks on investigations into "top end" cyber attacks, including distributed denial of service and malware attacks on key systems,... [25 Mar 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The PCeU itself will only investigate cybercrimes "that have a national impact on the UK", according to McMurdie - for example, incidents where more than 10,000 people have had their identities stolen online or electronic... [25 Feb 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News We are already seeing fraudulent websites exploiting the Olympics and we are considering what potential there is for hacking or extortion linked to DDoS attacks," she told silicon.com at the IT Directors Disaster... [13 Jan 2009]
Extra coppers to clobber copper crooks
News A spokesman for the telco told silicon.com: "Attacks on BT's network can impact upon the safety of local communities. A London scrap metal dealer told silicon.com the going rate for a tonne of scrap... [12 Jan 2009]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Opponents of ID cards have renewed their attacks on the scheme, claiming security is being watered down even as the cost of the cards rises. Ian Angell, a professor at the London School of Economics... [07 Nov 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News These networks could be tailored to infect other users' computers with malware, or to launch massive distributed denial of service attacks designed to take down computer systems. Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in... [31 Oct 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News We were capable of detecting both the aggressive and slower attacks and prioritising them accordingly. At the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Vladan Todorovic, information security manager for the Beijing... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London he said: "We see frequent attacks on organisations for the purpose of theft of property. Sustained cyber espionage attacks are being waged... [29 Oct 2008]
London: Wi-fi capital of the world
News Curry claimed: "Not using WPA1 or WPA2 can leave the organisations involved vulnerable to whole classes of attacks against both access points and wireless client computers. The survey of London, New York... [28 Oct 2008]
A Survey of Bots Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Developing new techniques for detecting and responding to the latest DDoS attacks often entails using attack traces to determine attack signatures and to test the techniques. This paper presents a detailed study of the... [22 Oct 2008]
Using Grid Services From Behind a Firewall
White Paper The rapid rise in attacks by malicious users has meant that firewalls have become a way of life for any machine permanently connected to the internet. Grid services promise the power of the supercomputer to the average... [13 Oct 2008]
World Bank hit by cyber intrusion epidemic?
News Up to 40 servers have been penetrated in a series of attacks, according to Fox News, including one attack on a server that held contract-procurement data. Two of the attacks appear to come from the same... [13 Oct 2008]
