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clickCyber spies plan attacks next year
News Cyber spying will pose the single biggest security threat in 2008, with 120 countries now using the internet for web espionage operations, according to security company McAfee. Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee... [30 Nov 2007]
The A to Z of security
News Just as one threat is apparently locked down, another springs up to take its place - or an old one rears its head in a new form. The worldwide threat posed by web-based crime has led to Europe and the US... [14 Nov 2006]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from malware that can harvest customer data or hijack machines. Security vendor Network Box illustrated this... [04 Mar 2008]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News Nato's cyber defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack. Anil believes the threat will continue to grow as terrorist groups... [07 Mar 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. Ronald Teixeira, executive director of the National Cyber Security... [10 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Social-networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report. There is an increased security threat from portable media... [09 Apr 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News In other words, the next security threat that hits your organisation could be a keylogger, Trojan and 'bot' rolled into one. The most obvious challenge is that, when we see one part of a multi-component... [02 Jul 2008]
Windows has fewest security holes
News Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report reveals 39 security holes were discovered in Windows during the second half of 2006, with an average patch development turnaround time of 21 days, up from the 22 Windows... [23 Mar 2007]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News It's very common, a lot of security has more to do with stopping stupid things from happening then preventing any hostile threat. That is much more of an information-based threat, it is a far more... [15 Feb 2008]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News Apple has plugged around 100 vulnerabilities in OS X so far this year but the malware threat to Mac customers is insignificant compared to users of Microsoft Windows. One recent threat that affected some... [12 Jul 2007]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News The Conservatives have criticised the government's response to the growing threat from cyber crime and unveiled plans for a national e-crime unit and a dedicated e-crime minister if they win the next election. [06 Mar 2008]
CIO Jury: Viruses still a major security threat
News Computer viruses still pose a major threat to corporate networks despite the lack of a major outbreak for two years, according to leading UK IT chiefs. Dr Ben Booth, global CTO at pollsters Ipsos, said: "If the... [25 Jan 2007]
Malware-infected site detected every five seconds
News The security threat from email attachments has fallen dramatically during the same period, dropping from one infected attachment in every 332 emails in the first six months of 2007 to one in every 2,500 during the first... [23 Jul 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. But spending vast amounts on... [17 Apr 2008]
Terrorists turning to tech, warns gov't
News Society depends on the information infrastructure; the ability to steal information and deny access is a serious threat. Black said that eventually "threat prints" could be developed by analysing... [04 Jul 2008]
