Teens sentenced for attack on UK hosting firm
Two UK teens have been sentenced to a suspended prison term and community service for a vicious online campaign that caused an online hosting company to go out of business.
Two UK teens have been sentenced to a suspended prison term and community service for a vicious online campaign that caused an online hosting company to go out of business.
Far from scratching messages in Arabic on paper, Osama Bin Laden communicated with the outside world using a security-conscious mix of offline email and a large library of USB sticks, US sources have reported.
Security and Counter-Terrorism Minister Baroness Neville-Jones has resigned after reportedly clashing with Home Secretary Theresa May.
Security developers are one of the two software sectors most likely to write insecure code, an analysis of applications submitted to code-testing outfit Veracode has found.
A hacker in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for planning a DDoS attack on thousands of news websites that ran had run a story on his personal life.
The range of Smartphones in use by government departments could be about to widen after the Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) published new guidelines on securing devices from a range of platforms.
Russian Internet users are still in the dark over whether they country is planning to impose restrictions on the use of Skype, Gmail and Hotmail after an official expressed concerns that the services' use of encryption hampers police surveillance.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) technology is still seen as too complex to deploy and use according to a survey of 100 senior IT staff by security company GrIDsure.
A network engineer fired by fashion house Gucci has been charged with going on an IT rampage against his former employer in which he deleted data, shut down servers and left the company nursing an estimated $200,000 cleanup bill.
The final member of a mobile phone import gang said to have scammed £60 million ($97 million) in VAT rebates from the UK Government has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has pounced on card protection giant CPP over suspicions that it might have exaggerated the risks of identity theft when selling consumers one of its products.
The <a href="http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/Home.aspx">University of Wales</a> could become one of the UK's foremost cybersecurity education and training centres after a recent conference produced a deal to work with the prestigious <a href="http://geospatial.mit.edu/SmarterSoftwareforaBetterWorld/">MIT Geospatial Data Centre</a> in the US.
Leicester City Council has become the latest organisation to tell to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it has lost a USB stick containing sensitive personal data.
The organisers of London's <a href="http://news.techworld.com/security/3258572/security-industry-invited-to-london-b-sides-event/">forthcoming Security B-Sides conference</a> have announced a speaker line-up that promises to serve up a slice of the event's free-thinking approach to security themes.
The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) has published what it says is the <a href="http://www.issa-uk.org/issa_5173/ISSA-UK_Draft_Standard_on_Information_Security_for_SMEs.pdf">first ever guide to best security practice for SMEs</a>, a sector normally seen as beyond the reach of security standards.