Key management holding back encryption
Businesses are keener than ever to roll out data encryption, but are still struggling with the complexity of key management, a new survey has concluded.
Businesses are keener than ever to roll out data encryption, but are still struggling with the complexity of key management, a new survey has concluded.
A flaw has been discovered on eBay's website that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.
The U.K. has seen its first conviction for hijacking a Wi-Fi connection without permission.
The respected SANS Institute has published its latest list "top 20" list of critical Internet security vulnerabilities, which it says companies should patch immediately.
The latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) offer cold comfort for anyone concerned about phishing. Although the number of attacks seems to have reached a plateau, phishing e-mails appear to be getting more sophisticated.
Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer was vulnerable to known security issues for an astonishing 358 days of 2004, security consultancy ScanIT has claimed.
Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.
Cryptography expert Phil Zimmermann has said he believes the flaw discovered in Microsoft's Word and Excel encryption is serious and warrants immediate attention.
A member of the notorious "29A" gang has been found guilty by a Russian court of writing and distributing the W32/Stepan and Gastropod viruses and fined 3,000 roubles -- a feeble £57 (AUD$136). ).
In the very week Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 was launched, a series of potentially nasty security holes have been uncovered in older versions of the browser.
LONDON (01/30/2004) - Worms capable of carrying out simultaneous attacks across a range of operating systems or exploiting multiple vulnerabilities could arrive this year according to Gerhard Eschelbeck, the outspoken CTO of U.S. security specialist Qualys Inc.
LONDON (12/16/2003) - Four years after it was opened with some fanfare, Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISS) has closed its X-Force threat analysis service (XFTAS) center in Reading, U.K.
LONDON (11/13/2003) - It's called the 'PD64012' ASIC chip, and its announcement by PowerDsine Ltd. has boosted the chances of Power over Ethernet (PoE) becoming a standard part of the networking landscape by next year.