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Continuing our round up of 2013 IT security vendor predictions, we've got the thoughts of three of the big Infosecurity Europe exhibitors: Palo Alto Networks, SafeNet and Kaspersky Lab.  Brian Tokuyoshi from Palo Alto Networks predicts that social media, data decryption and virtualised network security will be high …
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Continuing with our round up of the IT security vendor view of the year to come, here's how PandaLabs, the malware research laboratory arm of [Panda Security](http://www.pandasecurity.com/), sees 2013 stacking up in terms of threats and exploits.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, PandaLabs predicts that 2013 will be much the same …
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Network security vendor [Stonesoft](http://www.stonesoft.com/en/) predicts that the top infosec threats to watch out for in 2013 will include unseen and unknown targeted cyber-attacks, espionage and hacktivism. Jarno Limnell, director of cyber-security at Stonesoft, reckons that in 2013 the security of the digital world will become an even more pressing issue, …
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Who wants some forged educational documents that will help you get a job in some foreign country? The answer, it would seem, is lots and lots of people. At least that would explain why spam advertising fake diplomas has topped the list of junk mail subject matter for China, South … 
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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 latest such report to fins its way into my mailbox from [URL="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/"]Sophos[/URL] caught my … |
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The Google Press office today brought to my attention an unusual and totally unexpected bit of Google trivia: the modelling of real-world phenomena using patterns in search to [URL="http://www.google.org/flutrends"]map the spread of influenza[/URL] across the US. Google is proving to be far more than just a search engine these days. … |
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The [URL="http://www.messagelabs.com/intelligence.aspx"]MessageLabs Intelligence Report[/URL] for May 2008 has revealed that spam levels have risen across all industry sectors, but manufacturing remains the leading vertical as far as spam activity is concerned at 83.7 percent. The biggest rise, however, can be found in the non-profit sector with spam levels up by … |
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The University of Miami in the US has got together with the University of Dundee in Scotland to work with IBM on a project to develop open source software designed specifically to address the needs of older people, and help them to adapt to and remain productive in the 21st … |
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In the UK last year there were a staggering 3,237,500 cybercrimes committed according to a new [URL="https://www.garlik.com/index1.php?page=cybercrime"]report[/URL] from online identity specialists [URL="http://www.garlik.com"]Garlik[/URL] in collaboration with leading criminologists. Do the math and that works out to one cybercrime committed every ten seconds in the UK alone. Of these, some 60 percent …
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It was only a matter of time, but the long arm of the British law has finally reached out to embrace the BlackBerry. 500 front line police officers in Bedfordshire, England have already been issued with BlackBerry devices to enable them to spend more time tackling crime and less time … |
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The 2006 Virus Bulletin Conference is currently taking place in Montreal, and some interesting trends are emerging from the various security vendors speaking at the event. Trends such as the way that the widely distributed attack using worms, viruses and Trojans are increasingly becoming a decreasing concern. At least once … |
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The reports that are popping up all over the web that [URL="http://www.ibm.com"]IBM[/URL], along with [URL="http://www.gatech.edu"]Georgia Tech[/URL], has [URL="http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1019"]demonstrated [/URL]the world’s fastest ever chip are, sadly, not quite as exciting as you might at first think. Not least because this wasn’t a chip at all, but rather a transistor, and even …
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Nigel Page, strategist for Microsoft Australia, has clarified the hardware needs for effectively running the upcoming Windows Vista. Speaking at Microsoft’s [url=http://apcstart.com/teched/pivot/entry.php?id=6]TechEd[/url] conference, he indicated the following in response to questions asked. Vista, we are told, is much more graphics focused. There is a fundamental shift from bitmap images to …
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