Penetration testing is a valuable part of any security audit. It applies a hacker mindframe to finding the vulnerabilities that hackers seek to exploit before they get to exploit them. But it suffers from two weaknesses: cost and timeframe. A third-par…

LockLizard, a leading provider of document digital rights management (DRM) systems, will be addressing the holy grail of document security with the launch of a new web-based DRM solution for viewing protected PDF files

London operates a congestion charge to reduce traffic in central London. The congestion charge is enforced by 1300 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras operated by Traffic for London. Now the City of London is considering making feeds from…

There is a current scam campaign in the UK claiming that people are overdue in payment of a parking charge. An email apparently from the Ministry of Justice claims that photographic evidence of the offense is enclosed in an attachment. This, says the p…

BAE Systems has released a major analysis of a long-standing cyber espionage campaign that has all the hallmarks of state-sponsored malware. The malware is sophisticated, covert and persistent, and seems to have been in operation since at least 2005. T…

If Facebook promised you naked videos of your friends, would you click? As much as you may be tempted to find out why your former 8th-grade computer lab partner is sending you a racy video selfie, beware: it is, of course, a scam.

Microsoft once again gave up only a small percentage of content data to law enforcement agencies that asked for it in the last six months of 2013. Only 2.32% of requests from police and other organizations globally resulted in disclosure of data regard…

The question repeatedly asked by the bitcoin community since Mt Gox announced that all of its bitcoins had been stolen by hackers, is where have they gone? While bitcoins do not reveal their owners, their use can be tracked via blockchains – and there …

Getty Images has a reputation for being a copyright maximalist. It has sued breaches of copyright, and lobbied Congress for stricter copyright legislation. So when the world’s largest collection of photos – in excess of 80 million still images – declar…

Getty Images has a reputation for being a copyright maximalist. It has sued breaches of copyright, and lobbied Congress for stricter copyright legislation. So when the world’s largest collection of photos – in excess of 80 million still images – declar…