Businesses have been warned against the rising threat of cyber blackmailing after two Polish men were arrested by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) this week for threatening to bring down the website of a ‘multi-million pound' internet company.
Derek du Preez | 11 Aug | Read more
G4S has finally pulled out of bidding for a renewal of a controversial electronic tagging contract for criminals in England and Wales, after it was accused of overcharging the government for years.
Derek du Preez | 09 Aug | Read more
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served the Bank of Scotland with a fine of £75,000 after customers' account details were repeatedly faxed to the wrong recipients.
Derek du Preez | 06 Aug | Read more
A Home Affairs Select Committee has stated that the UK is losing the war on online criminal activity and that the government is too complacent in targeting cyber criminals.
Derek du Preez | 30 Jul | Read more
A systems update at Clydesdale Bank left its customers without access to their online services this weekend, the bank has said.
Derek du Preez | 30 Jul | Read more
The BBC has revealed that TalkTalk's net filtering system, which blocks millions of web addresses and has been praised by Prime Minister David Cameron, is being controlled by Chinese networking giant Huawei.
Derek du Preez | 27 Jul | Read more
The director general of MI5 and the director of GCHQ have written to all chairmen of FTSE 350 companies asking them to take part in a "cyber governance health check", in a bid to raise awareness at the top of the corporate food chain and highlight internal vulnerabilities.
Derek du Preez | 26 Jul | Read more
Tim Gregory, the man put in charge of CGI's UK operations after the £1.7 billion acquisition of Logica, has revealed to Computerworld UK that he plans to set up a cyber security lab in the UK.
Derek du Preez | 25 Jul | Read more
Kitchenware retailer Lakeland has suffered a "sophisticated and sustained" cyber-attack, where hackers gained access to its two encrypted databases.
Derek du Preez | 24 Jul | Read more
The UK is to introduce new measures that will see internet service providers (ISPs) block pornography by default, where consumers will soon have to opt-in if they wish to view pornographic content.
Derek du Preez | 23 Jul | Read more
Chinese networking giant Huawei has said that it 'shares the same goal' as the government in raising the standards of cyber security in the UK and that it is 'open to new ideas' in how it should work to improve standards.
Derek du Preez | 20 Jul | Read more
The government has largely dismissed many of the security concerns raised by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) report last month, which criticised the ten year relationship between BT and Chinese networking giant Huawei.
Derek du Preez | 19 Jul | Read more
The UK's intelligence agency, GCHQ, did not circumvent or break any laws when accessing information via the US' controversial PRISM programme, which was recently exposed by ex-CIA worker and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Derek du Preez | 18 Jul | Read more
Entrust CEO Bill Conner is pushing enterprises to recognise that desktop's are no longer the most secure way to assure an employee's identity and that instead they should be looking to mobile devices for sophisticated protection against malware.
Derek du Preez | 11 Jun | Read more
The government has revealed that a number of major IT projects are at risk of failure and need urgent action, including both Universal Credit and the G-Cloud programme.
Derek du Preez | 30 May | Read more