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News Fraud detection company Envisional, which monitors a number of global banks, film studios and big brands, found nearly half a million separate phishing email scams were sent to bank customers over the last six months. [24 Oct 2008]
Oyster card security vulnerabilities uncovered
News It needs a qualified computer specialist to set up, and risks detection by our staff or police. The details were made public at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday. An academic paper with details of the... [08 Oct 2008]
Email and web snoop plans slammed - again
News According to consultation papers released in August, the government wants to keep the "who", "when" and "where" of communication to "assist in the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime". [04 Sep 2008]
iPhone doubles its global web share
News The figures, collected by web-analytics company Net Applications, show that in June 2008, before the launch of the iPhone 3G, iPhone had 0.16 per cent share of the operating system market, as measured by OS detection... [02 Sep 2008]
£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Consultation papers released this week show the government wants to keep the "who", "when" and "where" of communication to "assist in the investigation, detection and prosecution of serious crime". Home Office proposals... [13 Aug 2008]
£2.5bn gov't telecommunications contract up for grabs
News It will be protected by a range of anti-spam, antivirus, malware detection and firewall services. A £2.5bn network that will be the high-tech telecommunications backbone of government has been put out to tender. [05 Aug 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Cloud-based malware and spam detection in email and instant messaging will grow from 20 per cent of messaging security revenue to 60 per cent over the next five years, according to analysts at Gartner. [17 Jul 2008]
Prison tech: Mobiles blocked and bodies scanned
News Prisoners reportedly pay between £250 - £850 to have mobile phones smuggled inside, with the Blakey report estimating current detection rates are already taking at least £1.8m out of the black market each year. [08 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News The annual report also shows some notable successes for the IPS last year including the detection of 9,000 fraud attempts in 2007/2008, up on last year's figures. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport... [02 Jul 2008]
Vista security under scrutiny, again
News Clausen said: "Firstly, it is important to highlight that all systems used in the research pool were, at the very least, running PC Tool's ThreatFire and that, because the technology is behavioural-based, the data refers to threats that... [21 May 2008]
Microsoft hits back at Vista security critics
News PC Tools's research was conducted by collecting data from customers using its ThreatFire behavioural detection software. Software giant Microsoft has claimed user "complacency" is to blame for malware infections, and... [16 May 2008]
Nato beefs up cyber defences
News Nato's Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) unit has deployed a large scale cyber defence project combining intrusion detection and prevention systems, security information and event management and automated... [05 Mar 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News Both devices were Visa-certified to be secure, which requires that defeating the tamper detection would cost more than $25,000 per PIN-entry device; or that inserting a PIN-stealing bug would be detected, or take more... [27 Feb 2008]
Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach
News Because companies are not legally required to notify individuals affected by a data breach, notification costs averaged only £1 per record, while detection and other activities following a breach both cost £15 per record. [25 Feb 2008]
Taxman goes high-tech in fraud fight
News Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has signed a 15-year deal to provide its criminal investigation and detection teams with the Airwave digital radio system. The taxman is spending £60m on a secure communications... [13 Feb 2008]
