Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
News Organisations should be wary of vendor lock-in, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency [20 Nov 2009]
Cisco targets security professionals with iPhone app
News The company's new App Store entry features customised alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device [20 Nov 2009]
UK police make Zeus Trojan arrests
News Two people were arrested in Manchester earlier this month on suspicion of distributing the Zeus banking Trojan [19 Nov 2009]
T-Mobile workers accused of selling customer data
News The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating accusations that T-Mobile employees sold millions of customer details [18 Nov 2009]
McAfee: Countries gearing up for cyber war
News The US, Israel, Russia, China and France are preparing for cyber offensives, according to a new McAfee report [17 Nov 2009]
Manchester ID card registration date announced
News People with a home or work address in Greater Manchester can register for an ID card later this month, the government has said [16 Nov 2009]
Home Office introduces a dozen ID card readers
News The UK now has 12 identity card readers as part of a pilot scheme, having had none earlier this year [16 Nov 2009]
Microsoft working on fix for Windows 7 SMB hole
News The company has warned customers that exploit code for the Server Message Block hole is available, and has suggested a workaround until a patch is ready [16 Nov 2009]
VeriSign: Major internet security update by 2011
News The organisation has said it will close a major attack vector in internet addressing in under two years [16 Nov 2009]
UK cybersecurity centre starting operations in March
News The agency responsible for UK cyberdefence will recruit people who 'understand the teenage hacker mentality' from within UK intelligence and law enforcement [13 Nov 2009]
MPs urge Nasa hacker clemency
News Home secretary Alan Johnson should use his discretion in deciding whether extradition to the US would breach Gary McKinnon's rights, according to the Home Affairs Select Committee [12 Nov 2009]
MoJ consults on £500k data breach fines
News Under government plans, organisations could be fined up to half-a-million pounds for serious data breaches [12 Nov 2009]
Facebook denies mass hijack was down to flaw
News The social-networking site has said no user data was in danger when almost 300 user groups were taken over by privacy campaigners [11 Nov 2009]
Home secretary considers Nasa hacker plea
News The home secretary says he will decide 'quickly' whether psychiatric evidence regarding Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon is enough to keep him in the UK [11 Nov 2009]
Eastern Europeans charged with RBS WorldPay hack
News The defendants are accused of hacking into the payment processor network and running 'one of the most sophisticated computer hacking rings in the world' [11 Nov 2009]
Microsoft patches critical hole in Windows kernel
News November's Patch Tuesday features fixes for holes in Windows, Excel and Word, including a critical bug affecting the Windows kernel [11 Nov 2009]
Gov't stands firm on web-monitoring plans
News The government has said it wants ISPs and telecoms companies to retain records of all internet communications, despite fierce criticism in a consultation paper [10 Nov 2009]
Apple update tackles domain spoofing, other attacks
News The security update for Mac OS X addresses 43 specific issues, including holes that could allow an attacker to take over the computer [10 Nov 2009]
Google fixes risky Chrome bugs
News A flaw in Gears could allow a malicious website to take control of a user's system, according to Google [09 Nov 2009]
Rickroll virus attacks iPhones
News The 'ikee' worm replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley [09 Nov 2009]
Zero-day flaw found in web encryption
News A security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers [05 Nov 2009]
Government curbs councils' Ripa powers
News Local councils will need authorisation from senior executives, rather than junior managers, to conduct surveillance on citizens [04 Nov 2009]
Microsoft releases unscheduled fix for IE update
News The software maker has released a fix that addresses problems introduced by its last scheduled update for the Internet Explorer browser [04 Nov 2009]
Online bank fraud targeting corporate accounts
News Small and medium-sized businesses, governments and school districts are targets of online fraud involving malicious emails, key loggers and money mules, FBI says [04 Nov 2009]
Google: Data is more secure in the cloud
News A Google Apps exec compares storing data in the cloud to keeping money in a bank rather than stashing it nearby [03 Nov 2009]
