The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed some of its first fines against public bodies after staff with North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients.
Lyceum Capital acquires Clearswift
Lyceum Capital, a private equity firm, has increased the total amount spent on IT industry investment this year to more than £100 million with the acquisition of data security vendor Clearswift.
Four people arrested in connection with US terrorist-funded PBX hacking
The FBI has revealed that four hackers were arrested in the Philippines last week in connection with an organized attack on the clients of telecoms giant AT&T in the US. Newswire reports suggest that the hacker crew was funded by terrorists linked to a…
Acuity releases free PCI DSS compliance analysis software
Acuity has taken the wraps off a free PCI DSS compliance analysis application that can be downloaded from its web site. The software is billed as being able to identify, assess, manage and report on risks to cardholder data.
Kingston Technology says that secure encrypted USB sticks are no longer enough
Research carried out by Kingston Technology claims to show that purchasing secure and encrypted USB sticks is no longer enough to defend data within a company environment.
Solera head researcher slams malware authors for “lazy, repetitive malware scams”
The director of security research with Solera Networks has called malware authors “mal-slackers” for their “lazy repetitive malware scams” they have created for this US Thanksgiving.
BEAST-driven SSL attack not as bad as it seems claims Context
Researchers at Context Information Security are playing down the level of risk to enterprises caused by the BEAST – Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS – that was identified by researchers in late September.
ISF publishes guide on risk-free Federated Identity & Access Management
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has published a new report on Federated Identity and Access Management that describes the methodology that IT security professionals need to adopt when implementing the technology into their systems.
Symantec reports one-click fraud has arrived on smartphones
Do you want the good news, or the bad news first? The bad news is that one-click fraud has, at long last, arrived on smartphones. The good news (unless you live in Japan) is that the frauds are focused on Japanese language users of mobile phones.
Fake iTunes updates demolish the idea that Apple iOS is secure
The long-held belief that the Apple iOS platform is inherently secure due to Apple’s walled garden approach to software has been holed once again, this time by a security firm that has developed a method of sending Fake iTunes and Flash updates to iPho…