Some high profile people have been caught up in this kind of scam. "As phishing messages go, it was never likely to be the most successful. A high ranking member of the British Government asking his...

Just when it looked like every avenue to prevent the extradition of self-confessed NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon had been exhausted, especially when just last week a couple of High Court judges denied...

Hmmm. Should they not have looked at 1500 straight guys and 1500 gay/bi guys in order to get more accurate results here - rather than base the 'gay men have proportionately more gay friends '...

One third of businesses totally fail to encrypt their sensitive data transfers. That's the conclusion of a new survey (http://www.computerlinks.co.uk/products/ipswitch/download_library.cfm) into file...

It's good news for those in the security business, according to Gartner at least. It is predicting that security software and services spending will outpace other IT spending areas in 2010. The...

I'm not a great fan of the phrase 'total coincidence' and nor am I a fan of The Rt Hon Lord Mandelson, First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills and Lord...

As someone who works within the IT Security space, I have to say that rogueware (also known as scareware (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20938/53/)) is starting to seriously hack me off. Not that...

Wanna fight? :) See http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4595.html

Gary McKinnon is either a UFO-obsessed nerd who happens to suffer from a form of autism, or a fugitive from justice who was responsible for the biggest military hack of all time. The description...

I note that Apple makes a similar claim with "Mac OS X is designed with security in mind. Its built-in defenses help keep you safe from viruses and malware without the hassle of constant alerts and...

Adobe has issued a security advisory following the discovery of what it describes as a "critical vulnerability" which exists within the current versions of Flash Player (v9.0.159.0 and v10.0.22.87)...

I think the story is painfully hilarious in a sad kind of way :)

Well thanks for that O2, my iPhone was as much use as a chocolate teapot from lunchtime yesterday thanks to the pay monthly data network suffering a monumental failure. There I was, sitting in a...

Usually quarterly spam trend reports from security vendors are, how can I put this nicely, actually I can't so I will just have to say it as it is: bloody boring and mostly pointless. However, the...

Anyone else getting pretty fed up with the number of headlines both online and in the print media which have been exclaiming 'Twitter hacked' this week? I have even just got a press release, from a...

Another of those security trending reports has dropped onto my desk, this one coming from PandaLabs which is now apparently part of 'Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company.' Jeez, someone needs...

Last weekend Twitter was apologising for accidentally suspending a number of user accounts due to human error. Now it is suspending accounts again, but this time there is no error: Twitter is getting...

Done.

Facebook entries which include pictures of middle-aged men in Speedos should be taken down as a matter of course.

No sooner had the news of the untimely death of Michael Jackson (http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/06/28/that-michael-jackson-effect/) hit the Internet than the vultures started circling. For...

Am I surprised that many 'IT Security Professionals' appear to have had a common-sense bypass when it comes to the security of their own mobile devices? Nah, not really. Look, we already know that 88...

Oh boy, this one just gets worse and worse: looks like the boss of the company that developed HyperVM has killed himself. He was found hanged in his Bangalore house...

Hackers managed to get root access to a large Internet Service Provider, reportedly via a zero day vulnerability over the weekend, and destroy data from 100,000 websites as a result. The UK-based...

I guess that is what you might call a turn up for the books, as the US Department of Homeland Security (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1506.html) announces the 16 members which have been sworn in...

A new Symantec (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4387.html) survey has discovered that people are more likely to check the oil in their car than they are to back up valuable data. When you consider...

Do you wear a tinfoil hat by any chance?

The FBI has confirmed reports that it was forced to shut down it's external unclassified email network "as a precautionary measure" following the discovery of a virus infection. I am led to...

The latest Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence Report (http://www.messagelabs.com/intelligence.aspx) has landed on my desk and makes for the usual rather depressing reading. I guess that most...

There has been no shortage of data loss by the military over the last year or so, from US Army files found on eBay MP3 player (http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22897/53/) through to more than 600...

Recently Google has hit the headlines with concerns over privacy (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4163.html) courtesy of Street View mapping, plus allegations of trademark infringements...

Kaspersky Lab has successfully patented yet another bit (http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/02/23/kaspersky-patents-malware-removal/) of security technology. This time it is a new heuristic...

I am no great fan of the concept of National ID Cards, although my reasoning is not so much based upon distrusting the 'if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear' argument nor even the...

Would you steal sensitive data from your employer if the price was right? According to a new survey conducted in the financial heart of London by Infosecurity Europe (http://www.infosec.co.uk)...

According to reports (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/21/hackers-us-fighter-jet-strike), the Pentagon has been subject to a successful hacking attack with details of the F35 Lightning II,...

A Microsoft security report (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa6e0660-dc24-4930-affd-e33572ccb91f&displaylang=en) has 'revealed' that some 97 percent of the emails travelling...

It has not exactly been the best of weekends for Twitter (http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2009/04/03/google-to-buy-twitter/), and for those whose tweeting has been hijacked by not one but two...

As the Chief Security Officer at telco giant AT&T, Edward Amoroso knows a thing or two about cybercrime. Which is why he has been giving testimony before the United States Senate Committee on...

Well that didn't take long. No sooner had Microsoft officially launched Internet Explorer 8 (http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2606.html) to the waiting masses and talked up how new security features...

Is it good news from Sun Microsystems, if you are in the market for a generic communication protocol between a key manager and an encrypting device? Sun has announced what it claims to be the release...

Today is Safer Internet Day (http://www.saferinternet.org) 2009, apparently. Every year since 2004, one day in February has been designated as Safer Internet Day in order to promote a safer and more...