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UK companies are cyber self-confident
UK companies are cyber self-confident
A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.
May 16, 2012
Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead; it appears that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ plans to ease police tracking of those who use the web for criminal purposes has been shelved.
May 16, 2012
Utah governor fires state's technology director over medical data breach
Utah governor fires state's technology director over medical data breach
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.
May 16, 2012
Online travel industry is most vulnerable to email attack
Online travel industry is most vulnerable to email attack
The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari.
May 16, 2012
McAfee uncovers Pinterest scamming toolkits
McAfee uncovers Pinterest scamming toolkits
US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code.
May 16, 2012
The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile Internet censorship: What’s happening and what we can do about it.
May 15, 2012
McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
At a time when cyberthreats to critical infrastructure are growing, McAfee and Intel have teamed to create a “reference implementation” for the energy sector that integrates a number of McAfee security products for substations and network operations centers with Intel processors and hardware-based security and management technologies.
May 15, 2012
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Mozilla’s objection to IE-only Windows on ARM: a major row in the making
Windows is not Apple’s iOS, says Mozilla's top lawyer after the organization complained that Firefox and other browsers would be excluded from Windows RT running on ARM systems.
May 14, 2012
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
South Carolina county takes nine month to notify thousands of data breach victims
Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.
May 14, 2012
BeyondTrust acquires vulnerability management company eEye Digital Security
BeyondTrust acquires vulnerability management company eEye Digital Security
BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.
May 11, 2012
DigiNinja analyzes the Twitter hack, and offers password advice to web services
DigiNinja analyzes the Twitter hack, and offers password advice to web services
Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.
May 10, 2012
K-State receives Air Force contract to examine network "moving target" defense
K-State receives Air Force contract to examine network "moving target" defense
Kansas State University (KSU) has received a five-year, $1 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to study
May 10, 2012