The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an anti-spam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in a van he used as a mobile office, Spain's Interior Ministry said Sunday. The van was ...
The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB) has launched a new cyber risk insurance coverage to safeguard smaller commercial organizations from growing information security exposures threats. Providing broad coverage ...
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Researchers following a cyber espionage campaign apparently bent on stealing drone-related technology secrets have found additional malware related to the targeted attacks. FireEye researchers have been tracking so-called "Operation ...
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The £650m over four years that the government allocated to cyber security in 2010 was recently branded "embarrassing" by Bob Ayres, a former intelligence officer at the US Department of Defense, in an interview with Computing, and ...
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Media giant News International is progressively shifting its IT infrastructure from in-house data centres to the cloud, after deciding three years ago to shift from being a newspaper company to a multimedia company. Further reading ...
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The UK continues to struggle against cyber criminals with no clear victory in sight. That's what the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee heard from the cyber security industry as experts gave evidence about e-crime. "I don't think the ...
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Chloe Smith, minister for political and constitutional reform at the Cabinet Office, has said the government's £650m spend on cyber security "underlines the importance" the government places on the UK's safety. Describing the ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defences, according to a new report from Symantec. Companies with 250 employees or less absorbed 18 percent of targeted cyber attacks in 2011, but ...
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A lawsuit could put a crimp in Microsoft's reported plans to implement two-factor authentication for users of its consumer cloud services. Two-factor authentication – which supplements a user's password with a PIN or code generated ...
Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
The government's investment in cyber security is embarrassing, according to security experts. The government announced plans to invest £650m over a four-year period on cyber security, after the 2010 National Security Strategy rated ...
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The US government is to introduce a "cyber espionage review" process into future purchases of IT after the measures were passed in a new funding law signed this week by President Obama. It follows reports in the press since the beginning ...
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US Securities and Exchange Commisssion chairman Elisse Walter has urged more international co-operation between securities regulators as they deal with increasingly borderless global capital markets thanks to the rise of the internet and ...
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Internet connectivity to North Korea was restored Friday after a day-and-a-half-long outage that the country's official media blamed on international hacking. Connections to the Star, North Korea's sole Internet service provider, hit ...
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The recent attack on computer networks at broadcasting organisations and banks in South Korea has brought cyber war into the limelight. While the cause of the attacks remains unknown, South Korean authorities say they "do not rule out the ...
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