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Security heading for the cloud
News But the analyst adds that criminals will also make use of the cloud to reduce the cost of heavy processing in attacks such as breaking encryption keys or finding vulnerabilities in software. Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office... [17 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News Microsoft issued a security advisory on Monday warning about targeted attacks that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database-management system. Sisk said: "While the attack appears to be targeted... [08 Jul 2008]
Nato fires up cyber defences
News Nato is also creating a Cyber Defence Management Authority to protect its allies against online attacks such as that suffered by Estonia in 2007. A Nato cyber defence centre of excellence has been formally established to carry out research and... [16 May 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to... [15 May 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Crosby warned that throwing random data at the interface between the guest software and the controlling hypervisor could result in successful attacks. He said: "Attacks known to-date involve fuzzing the emulation interface between the guest and the... [16 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established methods - such as malware or phishing - to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and 'pass the hash' attacks. [09 Apr 2008]
Nato allies form cyber defence command
News Nato is creating a cyber command to protect its allies against crippling online attacks on national infrastructure. The NRIC will continue to develop its ability to handle attacks on Nato's own systems. [08 Apr 2008]
Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources
News Since the disbanding of the NHTCU businesses and individuals have been left to report e-crime attacks to their local police force. With the growing importance of ecommerce for the British economy, it is crucial that there is help at hand from a... [18 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown: Timeline
News UK citizens and businesses have weathered unrelenting attacks from online phishers and hackers in recent years, while witnessing a gradual erosion of the ability of police forces to deal with everyday e-crime. [12 Mar 2008]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News Heuristic or behavioural-based monitoring is proving to be more effective at blocking these attacks since the behaviour of the file remains the same despite different signatures being used, he said. Runald said: "These are scary cases because it's... [26 Sep 2007]
Facebook banned by half of employers
News Details such as employment history and mobile numbers have been found on the site and could be used for identity theft or to launch corporate phishing attacks. Facebook told silicon.com it provides users with the ability to hide personal... [21 Aug 2007]
Why UK must pass data leak law now
News The report added: "Whereas in the past companies would often conceal attacks on their systems so as not to damage their reputation, now, since individuals had to be informed anyway, they were far more willing to report such events to law enforcement. [10 Aug 2007]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News Are the criminals just dusting off the same attacks and targeting new regions? Any place where you have political instability you could see an increase in DDoS attacks in that region. What we are now seeing is that the number of attacks and the... [01 Jun 2007]
Office 2003 gets security upgrade
News Such changes under the hood could help protect against attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities in Office applications. Many of the changes will be invisible to users, hardening the applications and file parsers against attacks, Edwards said. [27 Apr 2007]
Microsoft to rush out cursor flaw fix
News The software behemoth said its analysis of the data suggests "the attacks and customer impact is limited" but said it encourages customers to download the patch when it is made available. A Microsoft representative said in an email: "Since testing... [02 Apr 2007]
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