Line Noise : A few tidbits from Tipping Point Tower

A new study has revealed that a majority of IT security administrators don't think that employees have sufficient understanding of security policies deployed within organisations. A survey of 2400 IT administrators worldwide (450...

Internet security experts have dismissed a cybercrime report released by a UK government office as act of sales promotion. The report, which was released by the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (Oscia), was...

The nation-wide UK Cyber Security Challenge held the first round of competition over the weekend, with two teams making it through to the finals. The industry sponsored Cyber Security Challenge aims to entice young people into...

Google's Chrome OS is a vessel that promotes "careless computing", Free Software Foundation founder and the creator of the GNU operating system Richard Stallman has said.Talking to The Guardian, Stallman said that the idea behind...

Apple has updated its iOS mobile operating system by upgrading the security of push notifications and allowing the overseas distribution of iTunes promotional codes. According to Apple Insider, the new push notifications on iOS...

Facebook, the largest social networking site in the world, has announced that it will provide McAfee’s Internet Security Suite to its members in order to protect them from computer virus and other online security...

US President Barack Obama has appointed Howard A. Schmidt as America's first cybersecurity coordinator who has earlier served as network security advisor to former US President George W. Bush.  The announcement comes seven...

Before we examine why you should be looking at SOA, let’s back track and cover the basics of SOA.  An SOA infrastructure is an ecosystem of products that work together to enable service endpoints to communicate in a...

Kaspersky are running a 50% off promotion until 11th Feb, but if you use the voucher code WHSMITH at the checkout you can get 50% off the discounted price. So, for example:Internet security suite 7.0 usual price £36.12....

In a bid to avert the rise of cyber crime, Barclays Bank is on track to get online customers to use its two factor security system as from November 2007, Computerweekly has learnt.Already a quarter million people are using...

The Government must stop changes to an anti-hacking law criminalising the work of security researchers, a House of Lords Committee has said. If it does not, internet security could become an even bigger danger because 'ethical...

One of the main attractions of this year’s FIRST event is the emphasis on networking with other security professionals. Certainly from my discussions with various delegates over the last few days – this is one of the main...

GFI Software, the content and network security specialist, has published a useful white paper on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) - which are due to become mandatory for e-tail Web sites from September...

IBM and seven leading U.S. universities announced several new open software research projects under a program designed in conformance with the Open Collaboration Research Principles, a set of guidelines announced previously to...

There has been much public debate on the security merits (or weaknesses) of open source software when compared to proprietary software. These debates have frequently been driven by emotional arguments triggered by the numerous...