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Metropolitan Police gain power to extract data from personal mobiles

Fri, 18/05/2012 - 09:38
Technology has been implemented by the Metropolitan Police to allow them to extract mobile phone data from suspects held in custody.
Categories: Security

Work From Home Day gives employers the chance to be innovative

Fri, 18/05/2012 - 08:31
The organiser of today's "National Work From Home Day" says UK bosses should enable their employees to work remotely this summer.
Categories: Security

Howard Schmidt to retire from position as White House cyber security co-ordinator

Thu, 17/05/2012 - 17:11
White House cyber security adviser Howard Schmidt has announced that he is to leave his position at the end of this month.
Categories: Security

Howard Schmidt to retire from position as White House cyber security coordinator

Thu, 17/05/2012 - 17:11
White House cyber security advisor Howard Schmidt has announced that he is to leave his position at the end of this month.
Categories: Security

Flashback used pay-per-click ads 'to earn owners £3,000 a week'

Thu, 17/05/2012 - 09:29
The owners of the Flashback botnet may have earned $14,000 (£8,800) in three weeks due to adverts being placed on compromised computers.
Categories: Security

Avira apologises after flagging Microsoft files as malicious

Thu, 17/05/2012 - 08:11
Avira has said that it "deeply regrets any difficulties" after a false positive hampered its users this week.
Categories: Security

Trustmarque and Sophos offer cloud-based MDM

Wed, 16/05/2012 - 15:40
Trustmarque has partnered Sophos to provide a cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) security service.
Categories: Security

ICO fines Barnet Council over personal data loss

Wed, 16/05/2012 - 09:49
Barnet Council has been fined £70,000 after highly sensitive and confidential information on vulnerable young people was lost.
Categories: Security

Verdasys announces new hosted DLP solution for enterprises

Wed, 16/05/2012 - 09:32
The US based company claims industry's first on-demand DLP solution from which companies can deploy a "complete enterprise information protection (EIP) program" with a faster and lower total-cost approach to protecting sensitive information.
Categories: Security

85 per cent of UK businesses expect more cyber attacks this year

Wed, 16/05/2012 - 08:49
More than three-quarters of British businesses are braced for an escalation in cyber attacks this year, with a third predicting the financial impact will be more than £50 million.
Categories: Security

Sophos introduces Complete Security Suites

Wed, 16/05/2012 - 08:42
Sophos has revamped its product lines to enable end-users to face evolving security challenges.
Categories: Security

Companies choosing to blacklist apps

Tue, 15/05/2012 - 14:52
Companies blacklisted three times more applications in Q1 2012 than they did in the previous quarter.
Categories: Security

Surveillance of personal mobile comms is no big deal for telcos

Tue, 15/05/2012 - 10:00
Requests for the collection of personal data should not prove to be a challenge for telecommunication companies.
Categories: Security

ICO website pushed offline by suspected DDoS

Tue, 15/05/2012 - 09:48
The websites of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and Home Secretary Theresa May have been taken down as part of a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) campaign.
Categories: Security

McAfee and Intel offer protection to the world's national grids

Tue, 15/05/2012 - 08:22
McAfee and its parent Intel have announced a solution to protect the world's energy utilities from cyber attack.
Categories: Security

The SC Magazine Virtual Summit returns this week

Mon, 14/05/2012 - 10:48
SC Magazine's Virtual Summit will focus on mobile device security this week.
Categories: Security

Cortado launches cloud and MDM solution

Mon, 14/05/2012 - 10:07
Cortado has combined cloud desktop services and mobile device management (MDM) to offer stringent security and enterprise productivity.
Categories: Security

Debit card fraud linked to Global Payments breach

Mon, 14/05/2012 - 09:24
Debit cards affected by the Global Payments incident have reportedly been used by fraudsters.
Categories: Security

Amnesty International's UK website served up Gh0st RAT for two days

Fri, 11/05/2012 - 11:05
The Amnesty International UK website was recently compromised for two days to serve the Gh0st RAT.
Categories: Security

A combination of policy, collaboration and education should be the first steps to BYOD

Fri, 11/05/2012 - 09:17
A bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy can be implemented when policy, education and technology are aligned and when the business is prepared.
Categories: Security