Infosecurity News
Infosecurity Europe: Police central e-crime unit can’t afford to tackle e-crime
At the Infosecurity Europe show, London, on 30 April 2009, in a session titled ‘The dynamics of e-crime’, an audience member - an employee of the police central e-crime unit (PCeu) within the Metropolitan police service – interrupted the panel to declare that police are not ignoring the increasing problem of e-crime, but are under-funded and thus unable to tackle it effectively.
Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics
It's not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achieved this.
German Police arrest Bavarian cracking group
Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.
Infosecurity Europe: Employee awareness of security is “dangerously immature” says (ISC)2’s Colley
John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 EMEA lamented the lack of security is company culture in his talk ‘Are we getting the basics right’ at Infosecurity Europe this year.
Infosecurity Europe: Business social networkers can “learn a lot from kids”
Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security Labs, warned against the dangers of social networking at the talk ‘Social networking pirates: Batten down the hatches, Cap’n Jack is coming’ at Infosecurity Europe.
Infosecurity Europe: Mobile-originated spam set to be a major problem
The issue of spam is a major concern for vendors and attendees at the show. And, while internet service providers (ISPs) are doing their bit in shutting down the accounts of spammers in real time, it`s only the fixed line ISPs that have this luxury.
Infosecurity Europe: Lord Erroll calls for greater punishment for cybercrime
Lord Erroll stole the limelight, and the audience’s attention on the ‘Who got caught out the last 12 months’ keynote panel at the Infosecurity Europe show in London, 28 April 2009, by calling for greater penalties and repercussions for cybercrime.
Infosecurity Europe show opens with security cafes and expert forums
The Infosecurity Europe show opens for a three-day run in London today, with two features that are new for 2009 - security cafes and expert forums.
RSA: Recession will hit small information security companies hard say experts
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
RSA: Recession will hit small information security companies hard say experts
Despite the need for security being exaggerated in an economic downturn, smaller IT security companies will suffer, says Dave Hansen, Corporate SVP &GM Security Business Unit at CA, speaking to Infosecurity at the RSA conference in San Francisco.
A new generation security architecture revealed
Join Infosecurity magazine and Check Point software technologies in a webinar discussing `software blades,' a new architecture that allows companies to select from a library of over 20 software-driven systems to create a tailored security gateway for specific environments.
Infosecurity Weekly Brief - April 27
Last week, Infosecurity Magazine was at the RSA show in San Francisco. A variety of vendors launched new products.
Privacy International slams ICO ruling on Google Street View
Privacy International has slammed the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ruling that Google Street View does not contravene the Data Protection Act.
SmoothWall unveils low-cost secure web gateway appliance
SmoothWall has taken the wraps off a new rack-mounted web filtering appliance that uses the company's Guardian web filtering technology.
Tufin Technologies launches open API security initiative
Tufin Technologies has announced a policy and security network API (application programming interface) initiative and has enlisted the support of several IT security vendors for the program.
Finjan uncovers one of world's largest botnets
Finjan has uncovered what appears to be one of the largest bot networks controlled by a single cybercrime gang, with 1.9 million infected zombie computers forming the swarm.
AVG launches free LinkScanner web security application
AVG, the producers of one of the most popular free anti-virus applications, is now offering a free URL checking utility.
Check Point completes Nokia's security appliance business
It's been a complicated take-over, apparently, but Check Point Software Technologies has at last completed the acquisition of Nokia's security appliances business which was announced last year.
Skype - not as secure as you might think
Although VOIP afficionadoes are wont to promote the encrypted nature of Skype Internet telephony calls, it's now becoming accepted that the use of a compressed data mode within Skype opens the gates to pattern recognition and slow, but steady, text-based decoding of the voice transmissions as a result.
Black Hat briefings start on Thursday
The organisers of the main Black Hat security conference - which takes place at the Moevenpick City Centre hotel in Amsterdam's Piet Heinkade this Thursday and Friday - have announced that presenters will reveal no less than six high profile vulnerabilities at the event.
