Global growth in IT spending is slowing, according to analyst group Gartner, which forecasts that total spending in 2013 will amount to $3.7 trillion, an increase of just two per cent on the $3.6 trillion that it believes was spent ...
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The creation of Android malware is now mature enough for there to be development cycles that mimic those of the legitimate software world, a report from Juniper Networks has concluded. According to the?firm's annual survey of the ...
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Security firm Websense has identified a new malware campaign that targets Blackberry users with a malicious attachment in fake emails. The fake emails,crafted using content copied from legitimate emails from Blackberry,state that the ...
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Spending on cyber defence is set to increase despite the coalition government announcing a further £11.5bn of cuts from Whitehall spending set out for 2015-2016. The Treasury announced the decision following a series of phone calls ...
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A programme of educating staff about cyber threats and updating hardware has helped Miami International Airport counter cyber threats, resulting in hack attempts dropping from a previous figure of 20,000 a day. That's what Maurice ...
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According to Protiviti’s 2013 Security and Privacy Survey, a large number of companies are not adequately prepared to respond to a data breach of IT security crisis, despite a broader recognition that cyber threats are more prevalent. ...
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Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
Analysing information from transactions in real time can enable retailers to boost sales and discover banking errors, according to Juan Luis Carselle, assistant director of IT strategic planning and information security at Walmart Mexico ...
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The Cabinet Office and Cyber Security Challenge UK have teamed up to go in search of students aged from 14 to 16 who have "the potential to become professional cyber defenders". With support from security companies including QinetiQ, ...
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LORD Corporation has announced that the company hosted the North Carolina Military Foundation’s board meeting on June 3 at its headquarters in Cary. The event featured presentations from several keynote speakers, including U.S. Rep. ...
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Those responsible for manufacturing plants and process facilities are increasingly turning to members of the Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) for help in boosting productivity and guarding against catastrophic computer failures ...
Just six per cent of those training for a career in cyber security are female, according to figures published by QA, the UK's largest IT training company. The proportion of women working in Britain's IT and telecommunications industry ...
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Most financial services organisations (even the largest ones) have admitted that they do not have the budget to deal with the largest cyber attacks, according to attendees of a recent forum. Comments made at Ballintrae's first IT Security ...
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A major FTSE-100-listed mining company has revealed that it may have lost valuable corporate data after a laptop computer was taken during a domestic burglary, while it has also warned of a "potential loss of data" as a result of an alleged ...
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American utility providers are under constant assaults from hackers, a new Congressional report reveals, with one electricity firm reporting 10,000 attempted cyber attacks in one month. Congressmen Edward Markey and Henry Waxman surveyed ...
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