A majority of organizations are not applying information security best practices, according to a survey by Venafi, an enterprise key and certificate management firm, and research firm Echelon One.
Safari, Firefox, and Chrome disappoint in browser security testing, as IE9 stands out
The Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox 4, and Google Chrome 10 browsers each caught only 15% of live socially engineered malware samples, according to NSS Labs’ tests of web browser protection for European users.
Hackers raid 35 million South Korean website accounts
Hackers have stolen personal data from 35 million accounts at a South Korean social networking site and a web services portal, in the latest of a series of cyber attacks on government and financial firms.
BeyondTrust makes yet another purchase – scoops up GentleSecurity
Carlsbad, Calif.-based BeyondTrust announced its latest in a string of deals – this time acquiring DLP specialists GentleSecurity of Luxembourg.
Pirate link aggregator Newzbin vows to retaliate against blocks
The resurrected Newzbin website that aggregates links to pirated films has threatened to break BT’s internet filtering system if any attempts are made to block the site.
Hacked Twitter users send out “Beach Body” spam
Thousands of Twitter accounts compromised to promote Acai Berry diet supplement
CIO interview: Ailsa Beaton, director of information at the Metropolitan Police Service
Metropolitan Police CIO Ailsa Beaton has a lot to keep her busy. Between security preparations for the London Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations next year, leading technology counter-terrorism operations, and being on the board respo…
Almost half of UK employees would use proprietary data without permission
Almost half of UK employees who have access to their employer’s or client’s private data admitted they would feel comfortable doing something with that data without the employer’s or client’s permission, regardless if that access was intentional or acc…
Vickers abruptly resigns as director of US-CERT
Randy Vickers has abruptly resigned as director of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) following high-profile attacks on US government sites over the last several months.
Microsoft opens new malware research lab in Germany
The newest addition to the family of Microsoft Malware Protection Centers (MMPC) is operational, as the company announced the opening of its latest malware research facility in Munich.