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RSS fi in newsUK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News W is for Wi-fi The value of the average UK person's salary and credit card details to online fraudsters was revealed in the 2008 report by the secure computing initiative Get Safe Online (GSO), whose members include... [17 Nov 2008]
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News W is for Wi-fi IP networks were bombarded by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks - attempts to make networks unreachable by flooding them with traffic - as intense as 40Gbps, a survey of 70 IP network operators... [12 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 boosts location based services
News Obviously there's GPS, but it also supports Wi-Fi and cellular triangulation. That should make it easier for a whole new range of location-based services from finding nearby friends to LoJack-like PC tracking programs. [10 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News W is for Wi-fi Artificial intelligence is being prepared to serve on the front line of UK policing. Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer... [05 Nov 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News W is for Wi-fi Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News W is for Wi-fi Reports of cyber crime in the UK rose nine per cent over 2007, according to the UK Cybercrime Report by online identity company Garlik, which compiled government, police and analysts statistics. [30 Oct 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News W is for Wi-fi Faced with 12 million alerts per day the team at the Games' worldwide IT partner Atos Origin used in-house risk management technology to reduce this to just 90 critical alarms, focusing on the most serious... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News W is for Wi-fi The computer systems of critical businesses in the UK, such as power companies and large financial institutions, are being repeatedly probed to steal information or uncover weaknesses that could take them... [29 Oct 2008]
London: Wi-fi capital of the world
News London is the wi-fi capital of the world but is still falling behind on wireless security, according to a survey unveiled today. The majority of wi-fi access points in the capital also still relied on... [28 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News W is for Wi-fi Industry is facing the looming threat of new data auditing rules in the wake of the credit crunch, combined with the security headache of the introduction of cost cutting technologies, warned Tim Mather,... [28 Oct 2008]
Everyone needs a summer holiday - even phishers
News W is for Wi-fi Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets C is for CMA D is for DDoS E is for Extradition F is for Federated identity G is for Google [24 Oct 2008]
Who will win the LTE vs WiMax grudge match?
News She added: "In the UK, nomadic internet access demand is increasing rapidly at the moment, with some plans including 3G to wi-fi roaming. The future of 4G is a tale of two technologies: LTE and mobile WiMax - but which... [23 Oct 2008]
Apple: 'Third biggest mobile maker'
News There was outrage in January 2007 over Apple's decision to charge certain MacBook customers $1.99 to unlock the faster wi-fi chip hidden inside. Apple's iPhone business "had become too big to ignore". [22 Oct 2008]
RIP voice, texting - long live bio-sensing bangle phones
News Ho-Soo predicted future mobiles will use HBCs - or 'human body communications' - to enable data to be sent between two devices using the human body as a conduit, rather than through the air as with Bluetooth or wi-fi. [21 Oct 2008]
BT targets small biz with mobile broadband
News Users get a modem and access to BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots and mobile networks. With an eye on the small-business market, BT has set up two new deals based around 3G wireless data, offering a mixture of airtime and USB... [21 Oct 2008]
