San Diego-based St. Bernard Software recently announced its purchase of email security firm Red Condor.

San Diego-based St. Bernard Software recently announced its purchase of email security firm Red Condor.

Terry Childs, a former city of San Francisco network administrator, received a four-year sentence on Friday for his earlier conviction on computer tampering charges.

Terry Childs, a former city of San Francisco network administrator, received a four-year sentence on Friday for his earlier conviction on computer tampering charges.

There are signs that hackers are again turning to the recurring avenue of using attractive image files as a means to persuade internet users to infect their machines, through the usage of downloadable links to ‘allow’ users to view the files.

There are signs that hackers are again turning to the recurring avenue of using attractive image files as a means to persuade internet users to infect their machines, through the usage of downloadable links to ‘allow’ users to view the files.

Reports from DefCon 2010 last weekend showed how it is possible to persuade a mobile phone to log into a rogue base station created using around $1,500 worth of hardware. And, says an IT security vendor, this highlights how the ‘evil twin’ hacking meth…

The exploit for Adobe Reader and Acrobat unveiled by researcher Charlie Miller at last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas has been confirmed by Adobe, which says it will issue an out-of-band patch for the exploit by mid-August.

Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilize the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.

The European Commission has announced a new schedule for the revision of the European Union Data Protection Directive, delaying legislative proposals for over a year, according to the French Information Commissioner’s Office, CNIL.