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Icann opens up to the world 

Icann opens up to the world

In Cloud - By Ian Williams, 1 October 2009 9:26 AM
Loosening US grip on the internet.
LAN 'sprawl' endangering enterprise networks 

LAN 'sprawl' endangering enterprise networks

In Networks - By Ian Williams, 29 July 2009 9:56 AM
Disparate users create security holes.
Company bosses underestimating data loss risks 

Company bosses underestimating data loss risks

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 20 July 2009 10:34 AM
Lack of communication endangering business.
McAfee glitch causes havoc for IT admins 

McAfee glitch causes havoc for IT admins

In Applications - By Ian Williams, 7 July 2009 9:32 AM
VirusScan update generates false positives.
Phishing still a mystery to most web users 

Phishing still a mystery to most web users

In Web/client - By Ian Williams, 12 June 2009 9:58 AM
Phishing web sites are still a mystery to the majority of internet users, according to a recent study by VeriSign.
Better incentives required to stop data loss 

Better incentives required to stop data loss

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 30 April 2009 10:20 AM
Organisations do not know enough about the source, reason and frequency of data leaks, and more incentives need to be put in place to encourage better data protection, ...
EU pledges to protect cyber infrastructure 

EU pledges to protect cyber infrastructure

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 31 March 2009 10:08 AM
The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new strategy to prepare the region to act in case of major disruptions or attacks against critical information infrastructure.
Networks to become increasingly identity aware 

Networks to become increasingly identity aware

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 13 March 2009 11:36 AM
Identity and access management (IAM) will undergo a series of key changes over the next few years, particularly around the development of smartcard authentication, identity-awar...
Search engine promises completely private surfing 

Search engine promises completely private surfing

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 30 January 2009 10:29 AM
Dutch search firm Ixquick has announced that it has stopped recording IP addresses in a bid to boost user privacy.
Banks urged to change security policies 

Banks urged to change security policies

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 23 January 2009 2:32 PM
Basic security questions, such as asking for a user's mother's maiden name or post code, can be circumvented far too easily and should not be used, according to Symantec.
F-Secure touts cloud-based security 

F-Secure touts cloud-based security

In Applications - By Ian Williams, 14 November 2008 9:27 AM
The amount of malware being punted around the internet is growing at an exponential rate, and traditional locally-based protection applications will soon buckle under the ...
AVG update deletes critical Windows file 

AVG update deletes critical Windows file

In Applications - By Ian Williams, 12 November 2008 10:20 AM
A recent update from antivirus firm AVG has caused havoc with some users by deleting a critical file in non-English versions of Windows XP after incorrectly detecting it as a ...
Banking crisis putting data at risk 

Banking crisis putting data at risk

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 9 October 2008 9:33 AM
IT managers are facing a tough time ahead as the economic crisis leads to the consolidation of several major banks and their respective IT systems.
Symantec snaps up MessageLabs 

Symantec snaps up MessageLabs

In Messaging - By Ian Williams, 9 October 2008 9:24 AM
Symantec has announced plans to acquire MessageLabs for nearly US$700m in cash.
Browser wars good for security 

Browser wars good for security

In Web/client - By Ian Williams, 9 September 2008 9:51 AM
The recent onslaught of Internet browsers to hit the market is a boon for user security according to Tim Callan, a product marketing executive from security firm Verisign.
Fake MSNBC news alerts push spam 

Fake MSNBC news alerts push spam

In Web/client - By Ian Williams, 14 August 2008 9:51 AM
Spammers are changing tactics again slightly, but sticking with the basic new theme of disguising spam under the banner of news.
EMC backs research into cloud computing 

EMC backs research into cloud computing

In Risk - By Ian Williams, 17 June 2008 9:45 AM
Storage firm EMC has joined the Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Project which conducts research into "trust and assurance" in cloud computing environments..
Infosec: IBM offers 'security-as-a-service' 

Infosec: IBM offers 'security-as-a-service'

In Cloud - By Ian Williams, 25 April 2008 12:35 PM
IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division has launched new services designed to help smaller companies improve their overall IT security systems.
iPhone vulnerable to DoS attack 

iPhone vulnerable to DoS attack

In Web/client - By Ian Williams, 17 April 2008 10:10 AM
A security firm claims to have uncovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in version 1.1.4 of Apple's Safari web browser for the iPhone.
Valentine's Day spamming up a Storm 

Valentine's Day spamming up a Storm

In Messaging - By Ian Williams, 8 February 2008 9:53 AM
The Storm botnet is sharing the love this week with a new spam run aimed at taking the romance out of Valentine's Day..
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