Whilst eBay and other major internet auction sites appear to have cleaned up their acts on the pirate software front, smaller sites are still letting some postings through.
Tesco chooses Fortinet for threat management
Tesco’s Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company.
Islamist hackers block Kosovo website
The problem of religiously-motivated hacker attacks raised its ugly head again this month with an attack on the Express newspaper in Kosovo. Newswire reports suggest that Islamist hackers attacked the paper’s website using a combination of simple malwa…
Campaign Monitor hit by hacker server incursion
Campaign Monitor, the Australia-based email marketing software developer, has warned users of compromise to its servers that took place over last weekend.
Web-based malware attacks soaring says ScanSafe
In its second quarterly report on IT security threats of 2008, software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist ScanSafe reported that web-based malware had surged by over a third when compared to the first quarter of the year.
Unauthorised local authority staff access to personal data is inevitable
Reports in Computer Weekly that a number of local authorities are sacking or disciplining staff for viewing personal data on the Department for Work and Pension’s Customer Information System (CIS) comes as no surprise, says Cyber-Ark, but merely serves…
Linux, Symbian, Android, Apple or Blackberry? A tough choice for CIOs
The recent launch of nine high-specification mobile phones that use the Mobile Linux operating system (Limo) will add fuel to an already overheated market.
The iPod and iPhone could be used for hacking
Applications on the Apple iTunes website are arguably what makes the iPhone so popular in mobile phone circles, but a growing number of users are unlocking (jailbreaking) their iPhones, for the simple reason that it opens up the mobile to third-party a…
Microsoft warns over DDOS security vulnerability in Windows ASP.NET
Microsoft has issued a security note about a flaw in Windows ASP.NET that it says could allow a DDOS security situation.
Hold software providers accountable for IT failures
Regulation could protect businesses and governments from poor IT implementations that have cost billions of dollars. But at present, software is generally shipped with a disclaimer which states that the manufacturer does not guarantee it will work, unl…