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RSS exposed in newsWarning over wi-fi 'piggybackers'
News According to a survey by moneysupermarket.com, a large number of Brits are exposed to 'piggybacking' - where broadband users connect to someone else's wireless router to gain access to the internet - which can lead to... [29 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
CIOs brave the cold for children's charity
News Each year hundreds of individuals and teams from the technology and IT industries spend a night exposed to the elements in a bid to raise awareness, as well as sponsorship, for NCH's work. A team of CIOs will be braving... [07 Aug 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News The smaller retailers handling hundreds of thousands or low millions of transactions are more exposed because they have not been pushed down that path to the same extent. UK shoppers credit card details could be at risk... [06 Aug 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document. RIM announced the "highly critical" security advisory two... [23 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News Maarten Van Horenbeeck, security researcher at the Internet Storm Center, said: "This vulnerability is.one of those cases where it appears the BlackBerry, which opens a file, may be at risk, but what is really exposed is... [17 Jul 2008]
Ambulance service loses 999 details
News The Scottish Ambulance Service insisted there was little danger that people's 999 details could be exposed, as the disc had been encrypted. The Scottish Ambulance Service has lost a disc containing the encrypted 999 call... [25 Jun 2008]
HMRC tax credit system: Lost "almost £10bn"
News Shadow work and pensions secretary Danny Alexander said in a statement: "The government's boasts about the tax credit system have been exposed as spin. The cost of flaws in the UK's tax credit system has increased to... [22 May 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News According to Chris Potter, a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers and a survey team leader, "there are still two fundamental contradictions" exposed by the report. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published... [23 Apr 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News Employees are still one of the biggest threats to corporate IT security both through malicious and accidental actions. Vipin Samar, VP of database security at Oracle, said: "You see a whole range of people through which your security is... [10 Apr 2008]
How Google keeps its tech security tip top
News One way in which Google tries to reduce the risk it's exposed to is to use an army of external testers who "hammer" code to turn up and report any vulnerabilities on new releases. Google director of product management... [10 Apr 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News Shadow Home Secretary David Davis launched a stinging attack on the government's track record for tackling e-crime, saying it had exposed every person and business in the UK to online criminals. Some of the biggest... [12 Mar 2008]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News It's back to not enough understanding of how exposed those environments are. Bret Hartman has over 25 years of experience building data security systems and protocols for some of the biggest authorities and companies in... [15 Feb 2008]
Home workers admit broadband hijack hi-jinks
News Companies are being exposed to risk online by bad behaviour among home workers - from hi-jacking the neighbour's wi-fi to opening unsafe emails. WFH - all the coverage ¦ The great working from home experiment ¦... [06 Feb 2008]
Stress at work is a killer
News Chandola added the association is less pronounced among people of retirement age who are therefore less likely to be exposed to work stress. Stress at work could be more of a pain than you think. New research shows... [23 Jan 2008]
