Defend The Flag – A New Concept in Security

The US Congress has raised doubts over the privacy concerns posed by Amazon’s new and first tablet device, the Kindle Fire. Rep. Ed Markey, in a letter addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, inquired about the kind of data...

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...

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...

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...

Research in Motion’s Blackberry Curve has dethroned Apple’s iPhone as the best-selling smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of the year, according to the stats revealed by the marketing research...

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...

In a hacking contest pitting a Macbook Air laptop loaded with OSX 10.5.2, a Sony Laptop living with Vista Ultimate SP1 inside, or a Linux box running Ubuntu 7.10, the Mac platform was hacked within 2 minutes by one of the...

The Corporate Executive Programme (CEP) operates under the auspices of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a world-wide organisation that promotes collaboration and shared knowledge against threats and...

I think it is important to talk about vendors. One of the main set of comments from attendees is that they do not feel that they are being sold to at any point. Are there vendors present – absolutely! Do some wish to promote...

So here you are in your little pocket of the universe. Perhaps you’re:- • working out a strategy for dealing with the latest security threat or • putting together a proposal to your board for better security or• thinking about a...

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...

Here's Terry Pudwell, FIRST Conference sponsor and chairman of Assuria Ltd, flying the flag for FIRST and promoting the June conference in Seville by giving the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams its first-ever banner...

It's an old American tradition: we stuff ourselves with turkey and pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Day, then rush out the next day to work off all those extra calories by engaging in a strenuous exercise called "Christmas shopping."...

The first case under the Washington State Computer Spyware Act has been settled with New York's Secure Computer paying $1 million after the Government took it to court. Over 1,000 users of the firm's software can now be refunded...

HBOS is changing its Bank of Scotland internet banking website in response to a security company's claims that the site was vulnerable. But the bank says that the supposed risk did not pose any dangers to customers.Information...