- Contributors: Conor Murray, Paul Mangan.
Fraudulent apps appearing on the official Android marketplace is an ongoing issue and one that we have blogged about in the past. Today we received reports of yet more fraudulent (continue reading...)
- Ramona Fricosu, accused of committing financial fraud, is currently in a court battle fighting to keep her encrypted data private. The prosecution say that if the government fail to demand data decryption, it will harm (continue reading...)
- As you continue to shop for birthday presents and plan for holiday gifts during the year, here’s something that I learned about finding the hot “it” gift for your child. This year my youngest had (continue reading...)
- After a hacking group published thousands of credit card details, the Israeli government has promised to retaliate in the same way it would treat terrorists.
- Google says that the latest beta version of its popular Chrome browser incorporates a new security feature to warn users that they are trying to download malicious software from a website. (continue reading...)
- Do you need Java in your web browser? Seriously, do you? If not, get rid of it.Turns out, most users don't need Java any more, yet people keep running it. (continue reading...)
- Some of our legacy software is approaching its end-of-life (EOL).F-Secure has a (continue reading...)
- If you don't like the idea of the US government reading the sensitive contents of your computer, you may wish to take steps before you travel there. (continue reading...)
- Has Apple really partnered up with Facebook? Is the social network really giving away free Apple iPhones and iPads to randomly selected individuals?
- Check out the country-by-country medal count for the 2011/2012 #sophoscrossword!
You'll also find hints (if you got stuck along the way but still want to finish under your own steam) or a full solution (if you (continue reading...)
- Researchers at the 28c3 conference presented a paper delving into the privacy implications of smart power meters. In addition to vulnerabilities in the way these meters communicate they were even able to identify specific movies (continue reading...)
- The website pleaserobme.com (http://pleaserobme.com) gained a ton of media attention simply because it scooped up all of the public tweets, check-ins and status updates of people mentioning that they were away from home and posted (continue reading...)
- Customers of Stratfor who had their account details published by Anonymous last month started receiving joke spam messages today containing the famous Rickroll video. This message is a pertinent reminder that many of our emails (continue reading...)
- Real-time situational awareness is vital to securing global cyber systems and helping to protect national security. A global policy is needed which enables companies to collaborate with governments to leverage innovative technology solutions that combine (continue reading...)
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Tony Bradley published yesterday a blog entry that contains a great summary of the top security incidents of 2011. This is worth reading for any IT administrator (continue reading...)
- McAfee has developed an Anti Virus solution to protect our customer’s data storage devices. Jim Waggoner, CISSP, Director of Product Management for McAfee discusses the new McAfee AV solution developed for NetApp ONTAP 8.1 which is (continue reading...)
- The New Year is always a time for looking back on the past, and more importantly, looking forward and reflecting on the positive changes we want or need to make in the coming year. (continue reading...)
- Current DLP solutions rely on text pattern recognition to detect sensitive data and prevent data loss. But how can that protect images, digital media and other high value assets? If DLP could protect digital media, (continue reading...)
- Criminal hackers are targeting mobile phones in record numbers, and one increasingly popular technique is to corrupt legitimate applications. Approximately 200 of these maliciously modified apps have been discovered thus far.
The amount of malware targeted (continue reading...)
- There are many kinds of risk: operational, legal, and reputational risk. Most large enterprise IT teams are comfortable and proficient at measuring operational risk. It features in reports as minutes of downtime, incidents of endpoint (continue reading...)