A new two day event at the FIRST 2008 conference was a training event entitled Defend the Flag. This seminar is all about helping security professionals to become more adept at protecting corporate assets from both a theoretical...

Many security conferences focus on the attack and the attacker but how much attention is spent on defending your systems.  In this podcast, Chris Clark from ISEC partners, a trainer for the event, gives some highlights from...

Many of us, myself included, tend to be quite insular in the way in which we view security. By insular I mean that we tend to focus predominantly on our company security and our home security which in our positions is the right...

A new type of security training was introduced at FIRST 2008. Defend the Flag is a two day session analysing how well you can protect your systems. The sponsors of this two day session were Microsoft and one of their partners...

This year’s goodie bag itself was for me the most exciting of all the components; black folder, pen, USB stick for notes, some great T-shorts from the sponsors and the bag itself. Why is the bag so exciting?   Well it...

Every year prior to the actual FIRST conference is a one and a half day FIRST Education event.  This can take the form of training or discussion on various educational topics.   Obviously educating people with regard to...

Why just carry your files with you? Along with all those glorious gigabytes, FreeAgent Go software lets you carry lots of great programs and all your browser favorites and passwords without having to haul around your computer. ...

External storage device are the ideal solution for your back up needs whether you are an individual or a small business and with the digital explosion of movies, films, games and applications, external storage is more vital than...

In a scenario reminiscent of what AOL did with Netscape (or Sun Microsystems with Star Office), Nokia has purchased the remaining stakes in Symbian and open sourced the platform as the mobile smartphone market heats up and...

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has agreed to purchase the privately owned German startup, Plazes for an undisclosed sum; the Finnish company expects to integrate Plazes's functionality into its Nokia's Services & Software...

Apple's iTunes party could be over fairly soon if rumours are right; Amazon is set to debut its MP3 digital music download online store before October according to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. Amazon MP3 will surely give...

A report by Research Analyst Firm Gartner estimates that roughly two billion PCs will be crunching their way on the surface of the planet by 2014, up from more than one billion PCs currently running. Gartner's "Forecast:...

A major new piece of national research into students' thinking about careers in IT reveals that the vast majority consider the IT sector to have a bright future with good prospects for highly paid jobs. The research, based on...

Telecom company Virgin Media has been affected by the virulent lost-data-itis virus it seems; after the Scottish Ambulance Service blunder, VM has confessed to losing bank details of 3000 customers which were burnt on a CD and...

The Scottish Ambulance Service has acknowledged the loss of a portable storage device which contained details of nearly 900,000 calls made to the Paisley Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre near Glasgow, Scotland in the past two...

A number of blog sites have reported the throttling of the Sony Ericsson P5 (Paris) before it even came to market.Allegedly poor previews of the uber smartphone, and late entry to market, led SE to decide that the P5 would be too...

In some way or another we all collaborate, whether it is through one to one conversations or in global teams across the web. Most collaboration technology (PDF document) is geared toward either facilitating the collaborative...

An undercover investigation by consumer magazine Which? Computing caught branches of Woolworths, Game and Maplin in Harrow, Middlesex selling the games Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories, Condemned 2 and Hitman to the...

T-Mobile has declared that its data roaming costs within its European boundaries would come down from £7.50/MB (megabyte) to £1.50 per MB. With this move, T-Mobile will become the most affordable UK operator that...

The launch of Google's new Gphone, powered by Google's own software, is alleged to be delayed till the end of 2008; however Google maintains that the handsets will be released in the fourth quarter. The director of mobile...

Euro 2008, Wimbledon and the Olympics are all being broadcast online this summer. Whereas staff sometimes took a day off in the past to watch such events on TV, this year they can watch them from their desks.While not all...

During a session which heard warnings that the war against cyber crime was in danger of being lost, members were told that computer emergency response teams from the finance industry were moving to find an answer to one of...

British researchers have engineered a new breed of CCTV cameras which can react to specific noises and rotate to capture them almost instantaneously to the headquarters. Those "intelligent" CCTVs are capable of...

For some, the feature set will ultimately make the final determination on which one to purchase. Others will base their purchases on price regardless of performance or feature set. Then there is the enthusiast, for whom the only...

The number of innocent individuals in China whose personal computers were hijacked by criminals rose by a staggering 2125 per cent between 2006 and 2007, delegates were told here today at the 20th annual conference of FIRST,...

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If you look in the source of the email, you see that the actual link address is different:Upon clicking the link, the user is directed to a site, ostensibly allowing the user to log in to Texas Holdem. Once the user enters their...

It is a WS-* specification and OASIS standard that provides extensions to WS-Security, specifically dealing with the issuing, renewing, and validating of security tokens, as well as with ways to establish, assess the presence of,...

Today’s consumer demands the freedom to interact with a company through their preferred medium of communication, be it postal, voice, email, web or SMS. And who can blame them? The average UK citizen now has more suppliers...

It seems that the Canadian card fraud I reported on yesterday isn't the only scam that has been going on in North America recently, as reports are coming in about a similar cloning fraud in Northern Indiana.The fraud is...

Now here's something interesting - it seems that MasterCard is working with a firm called Obopay to develop a mobile-to-mobile phone e-payment system for its cardholders.The idea, which is well advanced in development terms, is...