IT warned against Skype hype
A new report has warned businesses to take security into account before deciding to allow the Skype VoIP service to run free on a company network.
John E. Dunn | 08 Mar | Read more
A new report has warned businesses to take security into account before deciding to allow the Skype VoIP service to run free on a company network.
John E. Dunn | 08 Mar | Read more
PC users are now the weakest link in the security chain, IBM has suggested in its Security Threats and Attack Trends Report for 2005.
John E. Dunn | 30 Jan | Read more
Security professionals are enjoying growing levels of influence inside corporate boardrooms, a new study has suggested.
John E. Dunn | 13 Dec | Read more
A researcher has claimed that increased support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in browsers could lead to a marked increase in botnet worm attacks.
John E. Dunn | 01 Dec | Read more
The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerged.
John E. Dunn | 01 Sep | Read more
Security vendor, Fortinet, has been ordered to suspend sales in America after the US International Trade Commission made a final ruling against it in its year-old patent infringement dispute with Trend Micro.
John E. Dunn | 12 Aug | Read more
Businesses are keener than ever to roll out data encryption, but are still struggling with the complexity of key management, a new survey has concluded.
John E. Dunn | 04 Aug | Read more
Spanish authorities are reported to have arrested 310 people as part of an international investigation into one of the Internet's most active "419" or "Nigerian e-mail" fraud rings.
John E. Dunn | 25 Jul | Read more
The man who almost single-handedly invented desktop encryption, Phil Zimmermann, is to demonstrate a new telephony-oriented encryption program at this week's Black Hat security event in Las Vegas.
John E. Dunn | 28 Jul | Read more
AOL is the global network most infected with "zombie" PCs, according to a new study.
John E. Dunn | 20 Jun | Read more
A number of the most promoted security risks are nothing more than a load of hype, Gartner has said in an unexpected outbreak of sober assessment.
John E. Dunn | 10 Jun | Read more
Four of the UK's largest banks have started delaying the time it takes to make an online bank transfer in an attempt to clamp down on phishing fraud.
John E. Dunn | 18 May | Read more
Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.
John E. Dunn | 10 Feb | Read more
Cryptography expert Phil Zimmermann has said he believes the flaw discovered in Microsoft's Word and Excel encryption is serious and warrants immediate attention.
John E. Dunn | 28 Jan | Read more
Companies are taking too long to patch critical internal vulnerabilities and are still struggling to protect systems against external attacks.
John E. Dunn | 29 Jul | Read more