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Leak fears could set bosses spying on staff
News Businesses are becoming more concerned about data security as the amount of information they handle and retain balloons - leading to a better understanding of of its value, Jones said. Big brother bosses will increasingly be tempted to turn to... [04 Sep 2008]
Fibre era fraught with roadblocks: EC
News As part of the mooted reforms, a number of important changes that could affect end users are being debated - including quicker mobile number porting; easier to understand tariffs and pricing; better data protection and mandatory notification of... [04 Sep 2008]
"Shambolic" security behind Home Office data breach
News The loss of a USB stick containing unencrypted data on 84,000 prisoners by a management consultancy working for the Home Office has been slammed as a "shambolic" failure by the IT security industry. Today, many organisations are still struggling to... [27 Aug 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News At this week's 17th Usenix Security Symposium, researchers from the Sans Institute and SRI International will present the results of their experiments with 'highly predictive blacklisting' (HPB), a service that tailors blacklists for particular... [28 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News According to Sense of Security's principal consultant, Jason Edelstein, this means that corporate networks are at risk due to the flaw. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can... [17 Jul 2008]
Viacom vs Google: YouTube privacy fears
News A US judge's order for Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy. Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the... [04 Jul 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News The analyst said growth will be driven by consumer demand for ubiquitous internet access - and mobile broadband laptops will therefore not replace fixed networks but remain a complementary access tech for use outside the home. [20 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Vulnerabilities on UK company and public sector networks grew from 19 last year to 21 this year according to security analyst NTA Monitor and 87 per cent of data breaches could have been avoided by regular patching and other precautions according... [19 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Top tech security risks and cash-sappers
News Network congestion: Roughly two per cent of machines have peer-to-peer software installed and the resulting high data traffic can clog up corporate networks. Name confusion: System names and domain name systems names often differ, meaning files... [29 May 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News A government-sponsored security survey reports that while the number of security breaches has dropped considerably in the past two years, the drop has come at a price. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published yesterday to coincide... [23 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News The main data security threat comes from poorly trained or disgruntled employees who are authorised to have access to data and file stores, according to Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash. He said: "However good the security, there's always a... [17 Apr 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News Malicious Malfoy is the external hacker who exploits security vulnerabilities to steal information and disrupt corporate networks. Employees are still one of the biggest threats to corporate IT security both through malicious and accidental actions. [10 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the... [10 Apr 2008]
Is your network performance getting you down?
News Globally, migration to multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) data networks appears to be steady, the survey found, with most organisations still in the early stages of adoption. Three-quarters of respondents named security and compliance as their... [01 Apr 2008]
Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists
News Seventy-three per cent of respondents in these countries identified security, firewalls and data privacy as the most important skills to their organisation today - but just 57 per cent said their IT staff are proficient in these skills. [13 Mar 2008]
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