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RSS usb in newsUK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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... [17 Nov 2008]
Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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... [12 Nov 2008]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News U is for USB sticks/devices Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism... [05 Nov 2008]
End of data losses no loss to NHS Lothian
News Egan had also been subject to calls for USB ports to be entirely blocked - but this is not an option, he told silicon.com. We've even got scenarios where some of the more scientific departments have microscopes that... [05 Nov 2008]
Orange notches up three million mobile data addicts
News The operator attributes "sustained" usage growth to sales of USB dongles to contract customers, with an increased number of 3G mobile broadband customers also helping to boost data traffic. Orange customers' appetite for... [04 Nov 2008]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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 [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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 U is for USB sticks/devices 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... [30 Oct 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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... [29 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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... [28 Oct 2008]
Everyone needs a summer holiday - even phishers
News U is for USB sticks/devices 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 [24 Oct 2008]
BT targets small biz with mobile broadband
News 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 dongles. Broadband Option 2 costs £26.99 per month, and includes the broadband... [21 Oct 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News U is for USB sticks/devices Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet Asia in an email interview that with the increasing prominence of virtualisation, threats to virtual machines... [20 Oct 2008]
Acer topples HP from Europe top spot
News Photos: Some creative uses for USB ports HP has been toppled from the top spot in the Europe, Middle East and Africa PC-selling league by Acer, partly as a result of Acer's success in the booming netbook market. [16 Oct 2008]
Google's Android: Beware the malware?
News U is for USB sticks/devices Senior staff at security company Symantec warned that the open nature of the OS could see Android's users exposing themselves to malicious applications. The OS could also expose users to new... [14 Oct 2008]
