UK ISPs will have porn filters operational before the end of 2013 said David Cameron’s ‘pornification’ advisor Claire Perry at a Westminster eForum last week.

The ‘blank media levy’ is effectively a tax on blank media (originally tape cassettes) designed to compensate content creators for illegal copying of copyrighted works. Over the years it was extended to include CDs, DVDs, hard disks – and is now making…

A research effort into the security practices of Fortune 500 companies has found that while a majority of the largest US public companies are following the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Guidelines by providing some level of disclosure regard…

An announcement from the Swedish Information Commissioner enjoins Salem Municipality ‘to either remedy the shortcomings of the agreement [to use Google’s cloud services] or to stop using the cloud service.’

In a talk this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit near Washington DC, two industry analysts from Gartner examined the hype and reality behind the idea of ‘cyberwar’ – defining what it is, what it is not, and what organizations should do…

Master boot record wipers have been cropping up lately, most notably in a widespread attack on South Korea media properties. A new MBR-based hack is now targeting German users, who are at risk of having their systems rendered unusable by malware being …

When the NSA’s surveillance program was first revealed by Edward Snowden last week, initial reaction was that it was a US issue. But with the realization that the greater part of the world’s internet traffic is at some point routed via the US, the worl…

Researchers at Rapid7 have uncovered two specific attacks using a new backdoor malware targeting victims in Vietnam and in India. The security company has dubbed the threat KeyBoy after a string present in one of the samples.

While IT security professionals recognize the threat posed by unwitting employees, many still admit to allowing administrative privileges to go unmanaged, making organizations increasingly vulnerable to malware exploits and unauthorized software, accor…

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks, says the old saying. Maybe you can, suggest security researchers after discovering a new self-propagating Zbot variant in the wild.