Security

Experts now believe that the majority of the world’s biggest businesses are infected by malicious Trojan software, which means that private data is harvested almost constantly.
Data security expert Uri Rivner warned against complacency, saying that every firm in every sector is a potential target for Trojan infection. He also said that hackers were modifying Trojans [...]

In 2009 it has been revealed that the UK was subject to almost daily attacks from groups of international hackers, many of whom were either partly or wholly sponsored by foreign states or terrorist organisations with backing from unknown global powers.
In an interview with The Observer, security expert Lord West of Spithead revealed that 300 [...]

Two of the world’s leading security experts have warned that cloud vendors could be losing out on valuable customers and damaging the perceived integrity of the cloud as a whole, because of a failure to confront and fix key security concerns.
RSA head Art Coviello explained during a keynote speech that opened his firm’s 2010 conference [...]

A new study has analysed trends in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) and has found that encryption at both ends of any transaction is the best way for vendors and consumers to remain protected.
Research by the Ponemon institute has found that although general audits find very small numbers of [...]

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released a report charting the most serious issues facing the cloud computing community in terms of data security and continuity. The intention of the report is to help potential corporate clients build risk assessments based upon the changes and considerations involved in switching over to a cloud-based platform.
The report [...]

The Wyndham Hotels and Resorts group has been the target of a new data security breach, resulting in personal information relating to its customers being stolen from its systems by hackers.
The hackers broke into one of the international organisation’s data centres remotely and proceeded to steal financial details and addresses of people from around the [...]

The speed with which the government proposed and then ratified new legislation, which has given the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) significant punitive powers in the event of data security failures, has become a talking point amongst industry experts.
The ICO’s new ability to impose fines of up to half a million pounds has been well publicised, [...]

A new series of attacks levelled at organisations in the public sector began last week, as reports of emails containing the malware program Bredolab came in.
Security expert Tony Millington said that although the use of Bredolab was not obviously significant in itself, the way in which the email campaign was run did raise some questions [...]

A serious new botnet formed from over 75,000 computers within over 2500 organisations has been discovered by security experts at NetWitness. It has been reported that the botnet is controlled by the Zeus virus and there are suggestions that millions of pieces of data have already been harvested by the hacking group behind the infection.
The [...]

Con artists who target internet users via phishing sites and email scams are set to come under fire from the government after new funding and powers were announced to help combat the growing threat posed to consumers.
Online fraud and scams are believed to cost UK citizens over £3.5 billion each year according to government statistics. [...]