October 31, 2008
Companies Should Not Just Jump Into Cloud
By Alan Harten
According to the Data Protection Act companies must notify their clients and government regulators of exactly where all personal data is stored.
For those considering using Microsoft’s exciting new Cloud Computing this could prove to be something of a legal nightmare.
Cloud runs on top of a system called Azure, which is a very exciting proposition [...]
October 30, 2008
SANS Institute Scholarship up for Grabs
By Alan Harten
The SANS Institute and ISACA London Chapter have begun a new initiative aimed at increasing understanding and awareness of security issues within the IT profession.
They have just launched a pilot scheme which consists of a security awareness course via online tuition.
They have also announced that a scholarship will be awarded for the best white [...]
October 28, 2008
Joint Venture to Tackle Software Vulnerabilities
By Alan Harten
According to information issued by the National Institute for Standards & Technology, NIST, up to 92% of all network security vulnerabilities are traced back to software applications.
This coupled with the growing use of enterprise outsourcing of application development can be the key to serious security problems.
Other studies have found that approximately 90% of companies [...]
October 27, 2008
Wipro and Fortify Software Form Partnership to Assure the Security of Client Software Worldwide
By Fortify Software
Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) and Fortify Software Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for Business Software Assurance, announced today the launch of the industry’s first joint center to assess and assure the security of client applications.
The new Wipro Software Assurance Center (SAC) uses industry-leading [...]
October 27, 2008
Lawyers found guilty of failing to defend their clients
By CREDANT Technologies
24% of UK legal firms have confessed to misplacing at least one mobile device containing confidential documents.
These losses leave the data saved to the device vulnerable to exposure with case-notes, contracts and client details typically at risk.
That’s the shocking discovery by Credant Technologies, a company specialising in IT security, in its survey [...]
October 27, 2008
Finjan’s Vital Security Appliances Receive Excellent Reviews from Three Leading Industry Magazines
By Finjan
Finjan announced that its three product lines, the Vital Security NG-5000, NG6000 and NG8000 series, received excellent reviews and high accolades by three leading industry magazines: IT PRO UK, Network Computing and SC Magazine.
IT PRO UK reviewed Finjan’s Vital Security Web Appliance NG-5000S for businesses and NG-6000S for mid-large organizations and gave both appliances five [...]
October 27, 2008
Web 2.0 will more than survive the credit crunch - it will prosper
By WorkLight
Responding to a report in BusinessWeek, which questioned whether the Web 2.0 industry will survive the credit crunch, enterprise Web 2.0 specialist WorkLight says it most definitely will and, as many areas of modern IT struggle, predicts that Web 2.0 will actually prosper.
“BusinessWeek’s column overlooks the critical fact that Web 2.0 technology is much more [...]
October 27, 2008
Fortify Software Releases Voting Guide in Time for US November Elections
By Fortify Software
Fortify Software today released a report on the current state of voting systems in America including a guide to choosing the most secure voting method for the November elections.
Furthermore, the study points to the lasting inadequacies of today’s electronic voting software, and calls upon elections officials and voting machine manufacturers to work alongside government [...]
October 27, 2008
Infosecurityadviser.com highlights need for central e-crime body
By InfosecurityAdvisor
Research carried out by Infosecurity Europe has shown that 95 per cent of people would prefer to report online fraud directly to a dedicated e-crime agency, rather than having to go through APACS and/or the financial services firm with whom the fraud took place.
The research by the Infosecurity Europe show - which took in online [...]
October 27, 2008
Green IT still a priority despite Credit Crunch
By Storage Expo
A survey conducted by Storage Expo of 513 organisations has found that even though IT budgets are getting tighter due to the credit crunch 70% said that Green IT and efficiency is still a priority provided it also saved them money, and 4% declared that it was a priority even if there were no cost [...]
October 24, 2008
Finjan Gets Good Reviews for Vital Security Appliances
By Alan Harten
Finjan has been receiving some very favourable reviews for its three new Vital Security packages, NG-5000, NG6000 and the NG8000.
The British publication, IT PRO, talking about the company’s NG-5000S Security Web Appliance for business, gave it the distinction of being that months “editor’s choice”, and stated that for ”Web content security you’ll be hard pushed [...]
October 23, 2008
Popular myNBC Site Used By Spammers
By Alan Harten
myNBC.com is being used by spammers and the infection could possibly spread to all the blogs on the site, according to Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd. (PCIS) who spotted spam and tracked back to the myNBC page.
The worry is that, as a household name, people may not be concerned about clicking on links on the [...]
October 21, 2008
Cyber-Ark announces Inter-Business Vault 5.0
By Alan Harten
In a security market that is beginning to see problems with tried and tested security solutions such as Secure FTP, companies are turning more and more towards alternative ways of keeping data secure.
One such solution is Sensitive Information Management, another comes in the form of PIM or Privileged Identity Management.
Cyber-Ark, a pioneer in this [...]
October 20, 2008
IT initiative of the Year Winner
By Alan Harten
This year’s “IT initiative of the Year” award, at the Security Excellence Awards, has gone to Scyron in recognition of their DEMON Manager software.
DEMON Manager manages the huge amounts of data coming into police and security services.
Modern crime prevention make use of massive amounts of information that may later be used as evidence, this [...]
October 14, 2008
Wi-Fi Hack Attack at US Hotel Could Happen in UK
By Alan Harten
The high end American Thompson hotel chain suffered an embarrassing and thought provoking hack-attack over the weekend.
The hacker apparently managed to obtain emails sent to and from guests at the hotel, both personal and business.
He then threatened to release details of these emails if his demands were not met.
The company owns several swanky [...]
October 13, 2008
Finjan confirms Australian investigation into ID theft kits for sale
By Finjan
Finjan has confirmed the findings of an Australian investigation into the sale of stolen credit and debit card information on the Internet.
“It seems that Sydney Morning Herald reporters have uncovered the fact that almost anyone on Internet can buy stolen payment card details for as little as US$1.50 a time for Aussie details, and US$2.50 [...]
October 10, 2008
New Mobile Phone Security System
By Alan Harten
Far from becoming more secure over the last few years, mobile voice communications have become more open to “tapping” by dubious individuals trying to gather all kinds of personal and business information.
All kinds of information of a highly sensitive nature is passed by voice conversations on mobile devices without any concern.
The same people making [...]
October 9, 2008
Free “two-factor” Password System
By Alan Harten
National Identity Fraud Prevention Week is running this week and amongst other issues is trying to point out to the public and business the dangers of using a single password.
According to government figures around £1bn per year is spirited away in various identity theft scams. On top of that laptops can cause other serious data [...]
October 9, 2008
GSS says Oracle’s Cloud Computing move needs to be viewed with caution
By GSS
Global Secure Systems (GSS),a leading security consultancy, says that Oracle’s decision - announced at its World Forum last week - to license its technology for use in cloud computing environments, shows that the future of corporate IT is changing.
“Oracle’s decision to license its 11g database, its middleware and management tools, starting with the Amazon’s Elastic [...]
October 9, 2008
GSS says BBC email list leak highlights dangers of mailing lists
By GSS
Global Secure Systems (GSS), a leading security consultancy, says this week’s revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlights the dangers that spam poses to modern companies.
“Whilst it’s likely that many of the people who signed up to this list were [...]