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News All email, blogs, instant messaging and VoIP calls could be monitored under government proposals - but critics warn the plans go too far. As of last September telecoms providers must keep all text and phone call records for up to two years under an...
[20 May 2008]
News A denial of service attack brought down key banking and state systems in the country effectively crippling the country and prompting Nato to carry out a thorough assessment of its approach to cyber defence.
[16 May 2008]
News Combining those pieces of corporate software with a large consulting arm would be a head-on attack on IBM Global Services' ability to sell consulting services around packages such as the Tivoli management software.
[13 May 2008]
News Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack. The security vendor claimed that these domains so far do not...
[07 May 2008]
News So it's not unreasonable to suspect that that's going to be the next attack vector, particularly as we depend more and more on mobile devices. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the White House on cyber security...
[24 Apr 2008]
News Despite the relatively good news, the report warns companies and organisations are still leaving themselves open to attack. A government-sponsored security survey reports that while the number of security breaches has dropped considerably in the...
[23 Apr 2008]
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. This was identified as being the prelude to a spam or phishing attack and the attack was traced to a...
[23 Apr 2008]
News These request bounce-backs would magnify any denial-of-service attack, according to Clayton, and could also create incompatibilities with browser-security measures. While Phorm could always just switch off its web server in the event of attack...
[18 Apr 2008]
News And Hyper-V has the full attack surface of any operating system, which is not a good thing. He said: "We reduce the scope of threats because we reduce the attack surface of the operating system. The challenge is the way security technologies rely...
[16 Apr 2008]
News Jeff Aliber, Kaspersky's US senior director of product marketing, said: "[With Windows], there is a large attack surface with a number of entry points. Anyone trying to shrink that attack surface and promote secure apps development has to be a good...
[14 Apr 2008]
News Also in the statement, Phorm's chief executive, Kent Ertugrul, pointed out that FIPR had campaigned against Ripa when it was drawn up eight years ago but was now using it to attack Phorm. The company behind an ISP-based web advertising user...
[11 Apr 2008]
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167...
[09 Apr 2008]
News Nato allies have pledged to help each other deal with major attacks similar to the distributed denial of service attack that took down key banking and state systems in Estonia in 2007. The Cyber Defence Management Authority (CDMA) will co-ordinate...
[08 Apr 2008]
News Make your voice heard by leaving a Reader Comment below or emailing us in confidence at editorial@silicon.com.silicon.com is currently running its e-Crime Crackdown campaign for a dedicated high-tech national police crime unit to deal with the...
[07 Apr 2008]
News Microsoft's director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow, said he expects IBM and its allies to launch "an orchestrated process attack in the hope of overturning the ratification of OOXML or at least to discredit what has come out of this long...
[04 Apr 2008]
News The Tories have launched a stinging attack on the government's failure to pay £1.3m to fund a national e-crime policing unit. Shadow home secretary David Davis said a crime is committed online in the UK "every ten seconds" - costing UK businesses...
[03 Apr 2008]
News Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA.
[18 Mar 2008]
News If the PCEU pieced together a larger, nationwide attack from regional incidents it could either investigate this itself or nominate a local force to lead the investigation. Start-up funding could be secured for a national police e-crime unit this...
[12 Mar 2008]
News For example in the case of a phishing attack it may be there are a couple of hundred victims across the UK but at the moment it is recorded as a number of single incidents at local stations. There is also the chance that each attack would be...
[12 Mar 2008]
News Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a further attack, citing the risk of a massive data breach on the system. James Hall, director of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS), told silicon.com the revised scheme is likely to cut £1bn off its...
[10 Mar 2008]
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