Fibre optic networks are not secure enough to transmit information that has not been encrypted, according to a recent report from IDC Research.
Managed wireless security set to hit $1 billion by 2014
A study just released by ABI Research predicts a period of healthy growth for managed wireless security solutions, with growth averaging 27% a year for the period 2008 to 2014.
UK national ID card cloned in 12 minutes
The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.
Companies invest in IT, but do not measure IT value
Despite 30% of IT security companies increasing their investments in IT this year, fewer than half have a shared understanding of IT value across the enterprise and two-thirds fail to fully measure it, according to ISACA.
WatchGuard acquires BorderWare in private transaction
Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies – the unified threat management (USM) security vendor – has announced plans to buy privately-held BorderWare Technology, which employs around 90 staff, for an undisclosed sum.
Does weak cloud password security mean local storage is best?
Hard on the heels of researchers at last week’s Black Hat security briefings showing how easy it is to recover third party passwords on Amazon’s EC2 and Microsoft’s Office Online services, Andy Cordial, Origin Storage’s managing director, said that thi…
SquirrelMail open source email project hacked
It now seems that the hacking of the servers of the SquirrelMail open-source email project in late June may have been worse than originally reported.
Arbor Networks shows how Iran filters and blocks internet traffic
Arbor Networks has published internet bandwidth usage figures from June and July that make fascinating reading if you ever wondered how less democratic governments such as Iran filters and blocks internet traffic for their citizens.
Zeus botnet traced to Latvian operation
Researchers have been busy over the last few days tracing where the Zeus botnet is being controlled from, following investigations by the University of Alabama in the US, which tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circul…
US credit reporting system flawed claims information security researcher
Clever hackers are exploiting a number of loopholes in US credit reporting systems to substantially improve their credit rating and so gain access to zero percent loans and low-cost credit cards, an information security researcher said over the weekend.