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Amazon confirms cloud services are back

In Risk - By Paul Briden, 29 April 2011 12:12 PM

The tech giant says its cloud services are back to normal, but a small amount of data will never be retrieved.

Rustock botnet back in action

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 13 January 2011 1:37 PM

Poised to return to pre-Christmas spam output levels.

Spammers snap up 6,000 Russian domains

In Web/client - By Dan Raywood, 27 September 2010 12:29 PM

As domains move back to '.ru'.

Email worm traced back to cyber-jihad group

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 14 September 2010 2:50 PM

'Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad' may be responsible.

Trustwave back buying, snares Breach for WAFs

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 23 June 2010 10:34 AM

Trustwave acquires Breach Security.

Zeus is back with terrorism-themed spam run

In Applications - By Dan Kaplan, 21 June 2010 11:47 AM

Trojan laden emails, warns Sophos.

Phishing attacks back on the rise

In Web/client - By Phil Muncaster, 28 May 2010 1:40 PM

First increase in three months.

Google mobile services back up in China

In Web/client - By Spencer Dalziel, 9 April 2010 12:12 PM

Status report confirms resumption of full service after blocking by Chinesegovernment.

Google attacks traced back to Chinese schools

In Web/client - 22 February 2010 1:53 PM

Reports point to computers at two institutions.

Small business ill prepared for disasters

In Risk - By Negar Salek, 29 September 2009 2:52 PM

Customers jump ship for more reliable service.

Yahoo Mail users warned of brute force attacks

In Messaging - By Phil Muncaster, 21 September 2009 1:48 PM

Two-year-old vulnerability exploited.

Botnets crawl back after McColo shutdown

In Hackers - 8 December 2008 12:45 PM

Mega-D botnet creators have set up new command and control servers and re-established their connections.

Phishing goes back to basics for attack methods

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 22 October 2008 9:55 AM

Phishers are adopting a 'back to basics' approach with attacks.

EMC improves back up processes

By Rosalie Marshall, 16 October 2007 10:05 AM

EMC has announced the next generation of NetWorker, its flagship back-up and recovery solution.

Storm worm back with a vengeance

In Applications - By Clement James, 11 September 2007 8:31 AM

The infamous Storm worm is back, according to security firm BitDefender, which found the malware in nearly 25 per cent of total detected threats during August.

Bank of India website back online, without malicious code

In Web/client - By Dan Kaplan, 5 September 2007 2:56 PM

The Bank of India website is operational today – approximately four days after security teams disabled it after hackers embedded malware on the home page.

Security fears hold back Wi-Fi adoption

In Networks - By Robert Jaques, 30 August 2007 12:32 PM

Concerns about security and poor performance are still holding back wireless local area network (Lan) adoption for many UK firms, research reports.

Swann’s back in Officeworks

In Crypto - By Lilia Guan, 2 August 2007 2:50 PM

Security monitoring and surveillance vendor Swann has returned to Officeworks’ shelves with its DVR-4 Business Kit.

Study: Security professionals back data breach law

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 9 July 2007 11:56 AM

More than three-quarters of IT security professionals believe companies should be legally obliged to disclose data security breaches, latest figures show.

Malware goes back to the future in May

In Applications - 6 June 2007 12:52 PM

New versions of old threats come back to haunt users.

Amero sentencing pushed back to mid-May

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 26 April 2007 10:28 AM

The scheduled sentencing for Julie Amero, the former Connecticut middle school teacher found guilty of exposing her students to internet pornography pop-ups, was pushed back ...

Sentencing in Connecticut teacher's 'porn or spyware' case pushed back

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 29 March 2007 10:08 AM

The former Connecticut substitute middle-school teacher who faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of exposing her students to pop-up pornography has had her ...

Asian firms held back by virus fears

In Applications - By Simon Burns, 14 February 2007 9:47 AM

Lack of qualified IT staff seen as problem.

Gates to step back from regular role at Microsoft in two years

By Dan Kaplan, 16 June 2006 9:37 PM

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition out of a regular role at the software giant by July 2008 to focus more time on his charitable foundation.

Researchers take VoIP security back to school

By William Eazel, 13 April 2006 2:30 PM

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued four awards totaling $600,000 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to lead a multi-university collaboration to develop a ...

Committee, organizations back treaty

By Frank Washkuch, 12 December 2005 8:59 PM

A post-9/11 international cybersecurity treaty has gained the backing of an influential U.S. Senate committee – as well as multiple advocacy groups.

IT security fears holding back US e-commerce

By William Eazel, 24 November 2005 10:10 AM

One in four U.S. consumers will not shop online this holiday season due to internet security concerns, according to a new survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

Canadian University takes IT security back to school

By William Eazel, 31 October 2005 10:27 AM

Ryerson University, a Toronto, Ontario-based university, has completed a wide ranging IT security infrastructure upgrade centering on deployment of over 40 enterprise security ...

Fear of identity theft holds back global e-commerce

By William Eazel, 19 October 2005 10:43 AM

Although online transactions are increasing in both the U.S. and Europe, a growing fear of identity theft and other online fraud is eroding confidence in e-commerce, newly ...

Spam king turns back on spam

By David Quainton, 21 July 2005 11:02 AM

Spam king Scott Richter has cleaned up his act and turned his back on spam.

Trend Micro wins patent ruling, Fortinet hits back

By René Millman, 17 May 2005 10:41 AM

An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge ruled in favor of Trend Micro in a patent infringement suit against security appliance maker Fortinet.

Blair spam rides on back of election frenzy

By David Quainton, 6 May 2005 4:46 PM

Spammers have tapped into British election fever by sending out an email claiming that Tony Blair’s email account has been hacked.

Panther gets its teeth back in Apple mega patch

By David Quainton, 5 May 2005 3:19 PM

Apple has released a host of patches for its Panther operating system, days after it released, Tiger, its newest OS.

IBM does not send spam back to spammers

By David Quainton, 23 March 2005 11:43 AM

IBM today launched a new technology aimed at combating spam. Some reports have claimed FairUCE (Fair use of unsolicited commercial email) bounces back spam emails to the IP ...

Spammer hits journos, journos hit back

By David Quainton, 14 January 2005 5:14 PM

A California man has been convicted on 79 counts of fraud and identity theft after flooding sportswriters' email accounts with spam. Alan Carlson, 39, sent thousands of ...