Schneier: Steps to combat file-sharing are misguided
Q&A So-called 'three strikes' laws ignore due process and are technologically unfeasible to implement, according to security guru Bruce Schneier [09 Dec 2009]
Amazon, other sites hit by DDoS attack
News An attack on a major DNS provider in the US hobbled service to sites such as Amazon, Wal-Mart and Expedia for about an hour, two days before Christmas [24 Dec 2009]
Young Londoners next in line for ID cards
News The Home Office has confirmed that 16- to 24-year-olds in the capital will be offered voluntary identity cards early next year [23 Dec 2009]
White House names Howard Schmidt as cyber tsar
News Schmidt, a former cybersecurity advisor to the Bush administration, will co-ordinate many security activities across the US government [22 Dec 2009]
Northern Ireland DFP rapped over data loss
News The Information Commissioner's Office has rebuked Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel for a major loss of people's personal data [22 Dec 2009]
e-Borders may be illegal, select committee warns
News Government plans to collect data on all travellers coming to the UK could be illegal under EU law, according to the Commons Home Affairs Committee [21 Dec 2009]
Firefox, Adobe lead list of buggiest software
News The Mozilla browser is first and Adobe software knocks Microsoft out of second place on the list of products with the most reported flaws [18 Dec 2009]
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Adobe to plug zero-day Reader, Acrobat hole
News The company will release the patch on 12 January, allowing it to stick to its quarterly security update schedule. In the meantime, users can disable JavaScript [17 Dec 2009]
ID cards extended to north-west of England
News The scheme is being rolled out to people living in Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside from January [17 Dec 2009]
Symantec confirms zero-day Acrobat, Reader attack
News A malicious Acrobat PDF is being distributed via an email attachment that drops the Trojan, affecting Windows systems when the file is opened [16 Dec 2009]
Facebook sues over alleged phishing, spamming
News The lawsuit accuses three men of gaining access to Facebook user accounts by phishing and then sending spam from their accounts [16 Dec 2009]
Chrome bug undermines web anonymisation
News Google's browser has a design error that keeps anonymisation services such as Tor from working properly, according to researchers [15 Dec 2009]
Adobe looking into Reader, Acrobat exploit reports
News Security vendor partners partners have warned Adobe of an exploit in the wild targeting a hole in Reader and Acrobat 9.2 [15 Dec 2009]
Microsoft issues patch for Office 2003 bug
News The software maker has posted a download that resolves an issue that was keeping users from accessing some rights-managed files [15 Dec 2009]
Cloud will bring new threats, warns Trend Micro
News Cloud infrastructure and connectivity, as well as devices reliant on it, will lead to new vulnerabilities for enterprises, according to Trend Micro [14 Dec 2009]
Botnet gangs collaborate on malware
News The criminal groups behind the Zeus and Avalanche botnets appear to have struck a deal to use each other's infrastructure [11 Dec 2009]
Microsoft fixes zero-day flaw in IE
News The software giant's regular Patch Tuesday release includes six security bulletins addressing 12 vulnerabilities in IE, Windows, Windows Server and Office [09 Dec 2009]
Researchers break into BitLocker
News Unlike previous attacks against the Windows encryption, the technique developed by Fraunhofer SIT works even when a Trusted Platform Module is in use [07 Dec 2009]
Government to share more data in fraud fight
News The government has announced a set of measures to increase data-sharing and encourage people to use public-sector services online [07 Dec 2009]
Microsoft expands Forefront security suite
News The business security suite gets refreshed web-client protection and secure remote-access tools with Threat Management Gateway 2010 and Unified Access Gateway 2010 [04 Dec 2009]
Adobe warns of zero-day bug in Illustrator
News A serious, unpatched security flaw has surfaced in Adobe Illustrator, as the software maker prepares to release critical security fixes for next week [04 Dec 2009]
Microsoft to fix zero-day hole in IE
News Next week's Patch Tuesday bulletin will include 12 patches, including one for a flaw in IE6 and IE7 that is being targeted by publicly available exploit code [04 Dec 2009]
BlackBerrys at risk from PDF flaw
News Critical security flaws in a component of BlackBerry Enterprise Server could leave systems open to denial-of-service or hack attack, RIM has warned [03 Dec 2009]
Microsoft finds no flaw in November security updates
News The company's investigation found there is nothing in the latest Windows updates that should lead users to encounter a so-called 'black of screen of death' [02 Dec 2009]
India blocks service to millions of handsets
News Mobile phones without a valid identification number were blocked in India on Monday as part of a government security drive [01 Dec 2009]
