An online activist group – apparently using the 4Chan web portal as its forum – started a major distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at around midnight CET yesterday evening against the web portal of the Spanish copyright protection society, the…
Global standard needed for credit card data encryption, PCI council says
A global standard is needed for point-to-point encryption (P2PE) technology used to secure credit card transactions, according to Troy Leach, chief standards architect at the PCI Security Standards Council. Standards are needed to ensure consistency an…
iPhone UDID raises data privacy issues
The unique device identifier (UDID) on an iPhone can be used in collecting data that poses privacy concerns, warns Bucknell professor Eric Smith.
ISSE 2010: IT world needs independent security standards
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organizations, according to a German information security official.
ISSE 2010: IT world needs independent security standards
IT security standards are mainly set by dominant technology suppliers, rather than independent organisations, according to a German information security official.
IT security too important to leave just to techies
Information security technologies have never been as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
UFO hacker Gary McKinnon decision expected “in weeks rather than months”
The fate of self-confessed ‘UFO hacker’ Gary McKinnon – who has been on the cusp of being extradited to the US to face charges in connection with unauthorized access to US military networks – will be decided within a matter of weeks, rather than months…
IT security too important to leave just to techies
Information security technologies have never as important as they are now, says the German Informatics Society (GI).
ISSE 2010: Stuxnet worm marks a security watershed, says German minister
The Stuxnet worm marks a watershed in IT security management, says Thomas de Maizière, German minister of the interior.
Stuxnet could hurt world economic development, says Microsoft CEO
The advent of sophisticated new malware such as Stuxnet could hamper the development of cloud computing and consequently economic development, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday.