There has been a surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against media sites in Belarus, something that could signal an escalation in cyber warfare in the region.
PBX hacking moves into the professional domain as arrests stack up
PBX hacking – the act of cracking into a company PBX and selling long distance/international telephone time to third parties at a discount – is alive and well, despite several years of being out of the news.
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LockLizard investigates the best approaches to document security depending on what clients want to achieve, in its white paper Document Security – a Guide to Securing Your Documents.
Symantec and McAfee under fire for auto-renewing subscriptions
The perils of giving companies your payment card details and failing to realise the likelihood of those details being used when subscription renewal times comes around have raised their ugly head again, with Symantec and McAfee being ordered to pay $37…
Indian authorities taking no chances with cybercafe users
The anonymity of cybercafe users in India is being severely curtailed, in a bid to stamp out illegal, fraudulent and terrorist usage of this popular method of gaining internet access.
Aussie bank customers hit by advanced phishing techniques
Customers of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia are being targeted by a new breed of phishers, who seem intent on scamming them out of their e-banking and payment card details.
Unencrypted laptop with 109 000 records on pension schemes members stolen
An unencrypted laptop containing details on 109 000 pension schemes members with UK pension funds service provider, The Pensions Trust, has been stolen from a third-party office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
Guide to handling personal data launched by BCS and ISAF
The British Computer Society (BCS) has linked up with the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) to launch a professional code of best practice when handling personal data.
ENISA evaluates network resilience of MPLS, IPv6 and DNSSEC
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released two reports on how and if Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) could improve the resilien…