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Franchises at high risk of data breach – report

 08 February 2012

An analysis of data breaches in 2011 finds that the standard IT systems shared by franschises places them at high risk

Malicious emails spike on US public holidays

 07 February 2012

The volume of emails with malware attachments spikes around Thanksgiving and Labour Day, according to research from security company FireEye

Showing up security 

 30 January 2012

Hacktivists and cyber criminals continued to make a mockery of the security practices of some of the world's most respected organisations in 2011

No time for faith in the Internet

 28 November 2011

Book review – The Revolution Will Be Digitised by Heather Brooke and The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov

Little Brother is watching

 24 November 2011

The government’s strategy on identity management is to partner with private sector identity providers. What does this mean, and what are the implications?

Facing up to the issue

 14 November 2011

Are businesses obliged to make sure their networks are not being used to distribute images of child sexual abuse?

The cyberspace defense complex

 08 November 2011

The London Conference on Cyberspace was an opportunity for the UK's defense sector to showcase its cyber-savvy

Internet protocol

 08 November 2011

The London Conference on Cyberspace revealed the extent to which the Internet has become a foreign policy issue

Certifiable security

 13 September 2011

One of the web’s fundamental security mechanisms has been called into question

Security still ripe for innovation, Gartner finds

 29 July 2011

New security threats have kept the security software market open for start ups with different approaches, says research firm Gartner

Businesses shun free data protection audits, says ICO

 28 July 2011

"Audits are not about naming and shaming," says information commissioner Christopher Graham

What is a cyber weapon?

 28 June 2011

Decoding the latest addition to the cyber glossary

Security barriers

 21 June 2011

Delegates at Information Age’s most recent roundtable debate saw security as a key barrier to supporting business-critical applications on virtualised platforms

A hard delete

 28 February 2011

How one financial trader destroyed the contents of his hard drive, allegedly to hide the evidence of insider trading, only to be caught out on the phone

Inside the cyber crime economy

 28 February 2011

Stolen credit card data sells for as little as $2 online, a Panda Labs investigation finds

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