Infosecurity News
IT downtime costs UK £2bn a year, study finds
UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.
Cloud apps cost firms £500,000 a year in poor performance
European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.
Money mule industry gets a professional makeover
Money mule soliciting has always been associated with the less tech-savvy amongst the internet user base, mainly on the basis that such programmes prey on the greedy and gullible, but now it seems that soliciting is getting very professional.
HP eyes $1.5bn deal for ArcSight
Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.
Anti-US hacker claims credit for ‘Here you have’ worm
A hacker who claims to be behind the "Here you have" email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.
ICO investigates FIFA over world cup ticket data loss
The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and then sold on the black market.
Third-party apps now a top vulnerability, says security expert
Attacks on third-party applications have become a major threat to enterprise information security, says security firm NGS Secure of the NCC Group.
EURid announces completion of 'chain of trust' for DNSSEC
EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, has announced that the .eu. element of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, is now one of the most secure in the world.
Global Risk Register to improve business risk management is launched
Last night the Global Risk Register – a non-profit organisation seeking to improve the risk management of businesses – was launched in at a special event in the London Cabinet War Rooms.
More on Adobe: Attackers already exploiting new Acrobat/Reader flaw
It looks like the summer security issues that plagued Adobe and its software users are continuing into September as Adobe has warned that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programmes.
Half of UK employees worked remotely over the summer
Research just released claims that 46% of employees in the UK worked from home or remotely during the summer period and, says Gridsure, the sponsor of the survey, the research showed that remote working has become important in terms of job satisfaction, especially if the technology is easy to use.
Estate agents risk legal action for not following data rules, warns ICO
Some UK letting and estate agents are failing to notify the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that they are handling people's personal information.
US NIST publishes guide to smart grid cybersecurity
The US has released a 537-page guide on how to protect the country's electrical power grid from cyber attack.
Salesforce.com launches Chatter Mobile apps for Apple, Android and Blackberry
Cloud computing company Salesforce.com has launched mobile apps for its enterprise social network, Chatter, on Apple, Google Android and RIM Blackberry devices.
Sourcefire links up with Qualys with Qualysguard collaboration/support
Sourcefire, the company that created the Snort open source firewall software, has announced it is collaborating with Qualys to make its software fully integrated with the QualysGuard platform.
Microsoft quietly admits there's another problem with Internet Explorer
Microsoft has apparently quietly admitted yet another serious security flaw with Internet Explorer, but is working on a fix, says Rik Ferguson, a security consultant with Trend Micro.
Car hacking goes wireless as modern vehicles open to hacker attacks
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington, have published a paper on the susceptibility of cars to wireless hacking.
Research shows lawyers struggling to cope with the digital age
Research released today claims that almost all lawyers are struggling to cope with the challenges of digital information, to the point where information overload has either lost them a case or resulted in them being fined or sanctioned in the last two years.
Security and mobile IT offer better job prospects
Unemployed computer science graduates should look for security and mobile IT jobs to increase employment prospects.
Former HP chief Mark Hurd replaces Charles Phillips as co-president of Oracle
Former HP chief executive Mark Hurd is to replace Charles Phillips as co-president of Oracle alongside Safra Catz a month after the HP board forced him to quit.
