Avoid Those Windows 7 Downloads

By Alan Harten

Windows 7 is supposed to be the grand successor to Windows XP.
In reality it should be the successor to Vista, but it is obvious that the company and/or the public never really fully committed to the brave new world of Vista and it simply never managed to take off in a big way.
A few [...]

Ethical hackers taught by distance learning

By David Masters

A UK distance learning school has launched a course in professional computer hacking skills.
The 300-hour accredited programme in ‘ethical hacking’ from the International Correspondence School (ICS) teaches participants the methods used by criminal hackers.
Ethical hackers, also known as ‘white hats’, are paid to search for the weaknesses in computer security systems that make them vulnerable [...]

Finjan Warns Users Over CBS Portal Being Compromised by Cybercriminals

By Finjan

Finjan has warned Internet users to be on their guard, following an apparent compromised web page on one of the sub-domains on the CBS.com portal.
“The cybercriminals, who compromised one of the sub-domains under CBS.com, appear to have added a malicious obfuscated script to the infected page. The injected script then dynamically injects an IFrame that [...]

Organisations fail to educate employees about risks from online shopping

By ISACA

Organisations allow employees to shop online but do not educate users about risks, exposing employees and employers alike to spam, malware, phishing and loss of productivity in the workplace.
ISACA, a nonprofit association that serves more than 86,000 IT security, assurance and governance professionals globally, has carried out three simultaneous surveys (two in the [...]

Finjan donates Secure Web Gateway to Hospital St Jansdal in The Netherlands

By Finjan

Finjan Inc today announced that it donated one of its award winning Vital Security NG-5000 Secure Web Gateway appliances to the Children and Teenagers Ward of Hospital St Jansdal in The Netherlands.
Utilizing Finjan’s patented real-time content inspection, it ensures safe Internet access for the seriously ill young patients in the Hospital’s Children and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Finjan gains new European patent for malware protection

By Brian Turner

Finjan today announced that the European Patent Office has granted the company Patent No. EP 0 965 094 B1 entitled “System and Method for Protecting a Computer and a Network from Hostile Downloadables”.
This patent further adds to Finjan’s extensive and comprehensive intellectual property portfolio in the security market.
Features of the patent include techniques to [...]

Experts predict Spike in Fraudulent Activity Due to Banking Turmoil

By Storage Expo

An increase in fraudulent activity is likely to follow the recent events in the banking sector according to UK Company, First Cyber Security.
Customers with internet banking accounts are urged to take care if asked to respond to emails from banks which have been named as being involved in the recent takeovers and mergers.
According to [...]

IBM Confirms Finjan’s Report on Crimeware-as-a-Service

By Finjan

Finjan Inc. a leading provider of secure web gateway solutions for the enterprise market, stated today that a blog posting from IBM Internet Security Systems, in which the rapid ascendance of hacking-as-a-service is discussed, confirms an earlier report from Finjan on Crimeware-as-a-Service.
“It is indicative of the domination of criminal gangs in the malware [...]

CNN.com Daily Top 10 email spam

By Brian Turner

The news alerts email spam continues to develop, with CNN again the target of the latest wave of email spam.
Titled CNN.com Daily Top 10, the email contains a table of supposed top ten CNN stories plus top 10 CNN video links.
However, none of the story links are to CNN, but instead attacks pages.
If CNN [...]

Data loss and latop theft increase

By Grant Draper

Absolute Software, a laptop tracking and recovery firm, has offered its advice on security as the number of cases relating to data loss, and laptop theft, increase.
The fact that laptops continue to fall in price for a basic model is irrelevant, as the data stored on them becomes ever more valuable, with the average laptop [...]

Directors’ guide to information risk

By Grant Draper

A three way partnership in the form of IAAC, BT and the Information Security Awareness Forum (ISAF), will distribute directors’ guides on information security risk prevention.
The guides include a wealth of knowledge, almost a summary of the information held between its members.
The Directors’ Guides are the result of the distillation of this knowledge, which is [...]

Users hit by phony MP3 files

By Dave Nixon

Adware peddlers have found a novel method to deceive users, said security vendor McAfee.
The company stated that it has seen a vast increase in fake MP3 file distribution on peer-to-peer networks.
Even though the files have names that make them appear as audio recordings, they are essentially Trojan horse programs that attempt to install an [...]

Microsoft to release four new patches

By Dave Nixon

Microsoft is scheduled to fix serious defects in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software this week.
Additionally the software vendor aims to release a lesser-critical update for its anti-virus products, addressing a defect that attackers could leverage to initiate a denial of service (DoS) attack against products such as Windows Live OneCare and Microsoft Forefront [...]

Apple improves software download utility for Windows with version 2.1

By Janine de Blois

Apple has responded to critism of its “Software Update” tool for Windows. In version 2.1 users now see a split window with two separate lists for updates and new software.
The complaint from many security (and other) sources had been that users of the old version often ended up with new software they had not [...]

Only 21% Reveal Passwords

By Lashan Clarke

A wise person will be protective of their password in the times we live in. However, current research has shown that not everyone is as wise to protect their personal information.
Using a survey conducted outside of Liverpool Street Station, the results showed that a little more than twenty percent of people gave up their [...]

Adobe Issues Flash Update

By Lashan Clarke

After the recent fall of the Windows Vista laptop using a security hole in Adobe Flash, Adobe issued a new update to correct the hole within the software.
This update was issued to correct the compromise that was realised at the CanSecWest Conference. The new update was also issued to correct other problems within the [...]

Microsoft Releases Plans To Make Hardware and Software More Secure

By Lashan Clarke

Information released by Microsoft at the RSA Security Conference highlighted what the company plans to do to protect its customers from malicious software.
Microsoft stated that it will do its best to increase the security levels of its software, and provide a more private environment for anyone using its software to access to the Internet. [...]

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