Passwords and IT Security
Passwords are frequently thought of as an "outdated" method of security and numerous product vendors will tell you how they offer a much better solution that kind of works like…
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Schools breach data protection rules
Today the Information Commissioner's Office announced a data protection act breach at the Bay House School in Hampshire which placed data belonging to nearly 20,000 people at risk. Reading the…
Burglary leads to bomb threat
In a situation resembling a variation on tiger kidnapping, there is news today of a situation in Australia where a woman spent 10 hours with a suspected explosive device strapped…
Amazon Cloud Hosts Malware
While it may be true that cloud computing is the "future," are will all great new things there are still some issues to be ironed out. It seems that it…
Widespread Hacking in South Korea
It was recently reported that nearly ever member (approximately 35 Million people) of a South Korean social networking site had their personal data exposed as the result of a hack…
Cloud Security – Uncrackable Encryption?
Cloud computing is frequently presented as the future of how will interact with our data. More and more systems are moving to the various service routes, from software (such as…
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,…
Olso Terrorist Attack
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…
Google launches malware warning service
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…
The Sun Newspaper – Hacked?
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…
Security and Your Business – Is it important enough?
We are all used to the phrase that security is important but is this something you really believe or are you paying lip-service to the notion? This is just as…
Paypal Phishing Attacks
Phishing is an on-going threat to most businesses and home users. It is safe to assume that there will be a constant stream of phishing emails sent to pretty much…
Tiger Kidnapping – Staff Security Issues
Security is about protecting the things that are important to you. Most people know this. What matters is how you do your security. It is fairly well understood that if…
Security Guide for the Small to Medium Business
As part of our continuing effort to help raise security awareness and provide business with the tools to improve their own security posture, Halkyn Consulting has produced a security guide…
Spear phishing attacks, prevalent & successful
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…