Stegobot steals passwords from Facebook photos
A report in New Scientist magazine this week identifies a new threat to your information security, although it is unclear if this is in the wild yet. In the article,…
News and updates about security related issues and topics.
A report in New Scientist magazine this week identifies a new threat to your information security, although it is unclear if this is in the wild yet. In the article,…
News reports are coming into today of a terrorist attack in Norway. It appears that a gunman opened fire on a youth conference on the island of Utoya, killing four…
Yesterday, the well known and heavily used internet search engine Google introduced a service by which it will warn users when it detects malware signatures on their computer. Working in…
According to a tweet by "AnonymouSabu" - apparently a hacker collective on twitter - the website of the Sun news paper has been hacked. The slightly more famous hacker collective…
Hot on the heels of Wordpress 3.2, a maintenance release update has been issued. As is normally the case, unless you have a strong reason not to, it is best…
EU data security rules will be strengthened and made more consistent, under new legislation being drawn up by the EU Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding. Her proposals cover the full range of internet-based activities, from cloud computing and social media to banking and finance. They even include the consideration of establishing a “right to be forgotten” online. (more…)
Previously we mentioned a news item that claimed the International Monetary Fund had been the victim of a "spear phishing" security breach. It seems that this is far from an…
Another day and another round of news headlines about the hacker collective calling itself LulzSec. Today there were two main headlines relating to the UK. The first, and possibly most…
Most businesses, when interacting with their financial services provider, assume that they are going to be protected to a certain degree if things go wrong. This may not always be…
Security is important and you really should never, ever, scrimp on it because one day the consequences will catch up with you. Just ask Sony, Citibank, The IMF, Codemasters, Eve…
On Monday we discussed the problem with people assuming that more and more successful hacks and security breaches were the result of "sophisticated" or "state-sponsored" attackers. Then, on Tuesday, the…
Another security breach is in the news today. This time a supposed attack on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has resulted in it network connections being suspended by the World Bank as…
The news about various large scale corporations falling under the onslaught of hackers continues to come out. Last week it was revealed that Citibank's security had been breached with potentially…
The ICO has issued another set of fines for misuse of personal data and violations of the Data Protection Act. This instance, however, is clear cut criminal behavior rather than business misuse,…
The ICO has flexed its muscles against Surrey Council and imposed a £120,000 fine for breaching the Data Protection Act. While this falls well short of the maximum allowed in…