The importance of Estonia, one of the most Internet-connected and e-trading nations on earth, has ramped up a notch or two with the FBI, which has announced plans to station a cybercrime expert and his/her team in the country later this year.
Swine flu challenges information security
The recent outbreak of swine flu has thrown up a number of topics related to information security ranging from secure sharing of data between health professionals, to spam / phishing and issues around remote working.
Infosecurity Weekly Brief – May 12th 2009
Danny Bradbury rounds up the most important news in the security space from the last week.
Heartland takes US$12.6m hit for breach
Heartland Payment Systems has revealed that it lost US$12.6m as a result of its 2008 data breach, in the same week that it finally regained official Payment Card Industry Data Security standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
Information security technology not enough
Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.
Fake search engines used to divert users to malware infected websites
Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security.
Global Security Challenge Competition open for entries
The fourth annual Global Security Challenge Competition where security entrepreneurs compete for up to US$500 000 in cash grants, is open for entries until 15 June 2009.
RSA: Splunk’s sales benefit from economic downturn
Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
Palo Alto networks formally launches in the UK
After several years of offering its products via a few specialist systems integrators in the UK, California’s Palo Alto Networks has established a formal presence in the country.
Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics
It’s not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achiev…