Following its legal success against Newzbin, the music industry has won its second major UK court victory: this time against The Pirate Bay.
Is ignorance bliss? Majority of employees don’t know or follow IT security policies
More than half of employees said they do not always follow their company’s IT security policies or are not even aware of those policies, according to a survey sponsored by McAfee and Xerox.
Health and Safety inspector loses details of Hartlepool nuclear power plant
Another day, another lost memory stick: this one with details of a UK nuclear power station including plans and a stress test lost in India.
Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme V2
The UK Government is renewing its plans to retain internet and mobile phone traffic data on everyone for a year.
Google fixes more flaws in Chrome
Google is again fixing flaws in its Chrome browser only a week after plugging 20 security holes with the release of version 17.
CIA provides funding for platform to find malware in binary code
The US Central Intelligence Agency’s private sector research funding arm, In-Q-Tel (IQT), is investing in technology to analyze binary code in order to uncover malware.
Valve lets off some Steam about online gaming data breach
Hackers likely downloaded encrypted credit card transaction information from a backup database of Steam online game distribution platform users, Valve announced recently.
LEA intervention on the internet may encourage ransomware
Visitors to the rnbxclusive website are met with a stern rebuke from a UK LEA. Italian Windows users can receive a similar rebuke from the Polizia. Only one is genuine.
Adobe ships zero-day vulnerability patch for Flash Player
Hot on the heels of its Shockwave and Robohelp patches, Adobe has issued a patch for seven critical flaws in its Flash Player, including a zero-day universal cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Anonymous mischief continues: US stock exchanges face DDoS attacks
The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.