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Symantec and McAfee under fire for auto-renewing subscriptions
Symantec and McAfee under fire for auto-renewing subscriptions
The perils of giving companies your payment card details and failing to realise the likelihood of those details being used when subscription renewal times comes around have raised their ugly head again, with Symantec and McAfee being ordered to pay $375,000 each to the New York Attorney General to resolve complaints about the issue from customers.
June 12, 2009
Indian authorities taking no chances with cybercafe users
Indian authorities taking no chances with cybercafe users
The anonymity of cybercafe users in India is being severely curtailed, in a bid to stamp out illegal, fraudulent and terrorist usage of this popular method of gaining internet access.
June 8, 2009
Aussie bank customers hit by advanced phishing techniques
Aussie bank customers hit by advanced phishing techniques
Customers of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia are being targeted by a new breed of phishers, who seem intent on scamming them out of their e-banking and payment card details.
June 3, 2009
Unencrypted laptop with 109 000 records on pension schemes members stolen
Unencrypted laptop with 109 000 records on pension schemes members stolen
An unencrypted laptop containing details on 109 000 pension schemes members with UK pension funds service provider, The Pensions Trust, has been stolen from a third-party office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
June 3, 2009
Guide to handling personal data launched by BCS and ISAF
Guide to handling personal data launched by BCS and ISAF
The British Computer Society (BCS) has linked up with the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF) to launch a professional code of best practice when handling personal data.
June 2, 2009
ENISA evaluates network resilience of MPLS, IPv6 and DNSSEC
ENISA evaluates network resilience of MPLS, IPv6 and DNSSEC
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released two reports on how and if Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) could improve the resilience of communication networks.
June 1, 2009
Twitter worm steals user details
Twitter worm steals user details
A worm on Twitter is tricking users into giving up their user details at the same time as redirecting victims to a dating website where the aggregate number of views result in affiliate revenue.
June 1, 2009
Google indexes details on thousands of credit and debit cardholders
Google indexes details on thousands of credit and debit cardholders
Police in Victoria, Australia are investigating a potentially major security incident in which the stolen personal details of thousands of credit and debit card holders from Australia, Germany and the UK were posted to a blogging site and auto-indexed into the Google search engine.
May 29, 2009
RAF data loss included sensitive vetting data
RAF data loss included sensitive vetting data
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has omitted information that the theft of hard drives in September 2008 with data on RAF personnel also included highly sensitive RAF vetting records.
May 27, 2009
Open Group advises on risk management methods
Open Group advises on risk management methods
Independent consortium the Open Group is trying to resolve what it sees as confusion about risk management in the industry by publishing a guide to choosing a risk management methodology.
May 27, 2009
Jericho Forum links with Cloud Security Alliance
Jericho Forum links with Cloud Security Alliance
Hard on the heels of unveiling Cloud Cube, its four-dimensional best practice model for cloud computing security in April, security industry association the Jericho Forum has linked with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit vendor group.
May 27, 2009
Anti-malware groups align themselves
Anti-malware groups align themselves
Anti-malware efforts took a significant step forward this week with the announcement of an initiative to try and bring legitimate software businesses together and lock out malware writers.
May 22, 2009