Infosecurity News
US opens cyber security command centre
The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.
Gartner and US GAO worry about swine flu net congestion worries
The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases - up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America - has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) both expressing concern over the internet's `last mile' delivery infrastructure.
Tipping Point gets multi-threaded with intrusion prevention system launch
Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.
Economic climate increases fears of identity theft
Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.
Biometrics 2009: Schools are spear-heading the use of biometrics
Approximately 10% of schools are deploying biometric technologies, according to Alasdair Darroch, director of Biostore
BlackBerry users warned by US-CERT on eavesdropping PhoneSnoop application
The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application called PhoneSnoop.
FBI director almost fell for phishing attack
The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.
UK CIOs reported 356 data loss incidents last year
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has turned up the revelation that there were 356 data loss incidents reported in the 11 months to September of this year. The figures compare to 190 data loss incidents in the period October 2007 to November 2008.
51 000 reasons for data encryption hit Zurich Insurance
Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.
Man jailed for selling pirated software on eBay
A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
Weekly brief October 26, 2009
Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.
Hackers successfully target Guardian Jobs site
Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.
RSA Europe: Barings Bank collapse avoidable if controls were in place
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
RSA Europe: Information warfare is an overused term
Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
RSA Europe: We need revocable personal data says ISF president
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institutions.
RSA Europe: Identity theft is too easy and can even be automated says IT security expert
The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week's RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland.
Rapid7 acquires Metasploit open source project
Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.
RSA Europe: Two-factor authentication is worth nothing, says executive director, EEMA
At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled ‘Governments face up to the cyber security challenge’, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication “not worth anything anymore”.
Symantec says internet users plagued by fake anti-virus software
Research just published by Symantec claims to show that users are increasingly being fooled into installing fake anti-virus software - aka scamware - onto their machines.
BitDefender readies for Windows 7 release to consumers
Although business users have had copies of Windows 7 on their machines for a short while now, this Thursday will see the first copies of the new Microsoft operating system released to consumers. And BitDefender says it is ready, as its 2010 range of IT security products have just been released, complete with Windows 7 certification.
