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The White Lotus DDoS botnet analysed
The White Lotus DDoS botnet analysed
Research just released from Arbor Networks makes the interesting assertion that a new family of distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets has arrived on the hacker scene.
April 9, 2010
Protegrity predicts rising IT security sales on back of enhanced ICO penalties for data breaches
Protegrity predicts rising IT security sales on back of enhanced ICO penalties for data breaches
Protegrity, the Stamford, Connecticut-based enterprise data security specialist, is quietly making its presence felt in the UK and Europe, largely thanks to a growing network of resellers handling the firm's products.
April 9, 2010
ISACA survey reveals uncertainty over cloud computing security risks
ISACA survey reveals uncertainty over cloud computing security risks
Nearly half of US IT professionals surveyed by ISACA said they believe that the security risks of cloud computing outweigh the potential benefits.
April 9, 2010
Riverbed and McAfee in optimization deal
Riverbed and McAfee in optimization deal
McAfee has signed a deal with IT performance optimisation company Riverbed Technology to embed its firewall technology in the Riverbed Steelhead WAN optimisation appliance.
April 8, 2010
Gracenote, Civolution in UGC fingerprinting deal
Gracenote, Civolution in UGC fingerprinting deal
Content watermarking firm Civolution has signed an expanded long-term agreement with online music database firm Gracenote to jointly market an audio and video content identification platform that lets content owners and service providers filter and monitor content.
April 8, 2010
Visa warns retailers of rising keylogger trojan problem
Visa warns retailers of rising keylogger trojan problem
Visa International has taken the unusual step on advising its member financial institutions – who process card transactions for their retailer customers – that the incidence of trojans carrying keylogger malware is rising, and that retailers need to take care their EPOS (electronic point of sale) terminals do not become infected.
April 7, 2010
Unencrypted removable storage devices pose company risk
Unencrypted removable storage devices pose company risk
Research just released in the US claims to show that three quarters of workers are now saving corporate data on unencrypted USB sticks and, says Origin Storage, if this data is extrapolated to the UK, it suggests there is a high risk of data leaks occurring on this side of the Atlantic.
April 7, 2010
Employees unaware of massive hike in ICO penalties
Employees unaware of massive hike in ICO penalties
This week sees the introduction of new penalties for breaches of the Data Protection Act. Regulated and enforced by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the maximum fine for an organisation found to be in breach of the act rises from just £5000 to a hefty £500 000.
April 7, 2010
Mobile social networking needs much better policing says report
Mobile social networking needs much better policing says report
Government psychologist Tanya Byron has called for a fresh review into regular and mobile internet usage by minors, suggesting that the social networking industry should have an accepted code of conduct in order to protect under-age users.
April 6, 2010
USB trojan tops BitDefender March e-threats report
USB trojan tops BitDefender March e-threats report
The March report on electronic threats from BitDefender claims to show that trojans continue to get top billing – topping the IT security vendor's list with 13% of total global malware is Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen, a generic mechanism designed to spread through removable devices.
April 6, 2010
Researcher makes PDF files worm-able
Researcher makes PDF files worm-able
A security researcher has come up with a proof-of-concept attack that enables malicious executables to be remotely injected into clean PDF files.
April 6, 2010
Weekly brief, April 6, 2010
Weekly brief, April 6, 2010
Infosecurity rounds up the week's news
April 6, 2010