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Cost of online-banking fraud doubled in 2008
News Payments industry association Apacs says the rise is due partly to more people accessing their bank accounts online, and the attention they attract from phishers [23 Mar 2009]
Gov't watchdog reveals early ID card concerns
News Two Gateway Review reports warn of several risks of the identity-card scheme, including inadequate support from relevant organisations, erosion of public support and cost [20 Mar 2009]
Researchers demo keystroke-sniffing via laser
News At the CanSecWest security conference, researchers proved they could spy on a computer by using laser beams and by sniffing the electrical socket [20 Mar 2009]
Australian media authority plugs potential leaks
News The Australian Communications and Media Authority is looking at ways to tighten security of its blacklist of banned websites, following a supposed leak, the authenticity of which was later denied [19 Mar 2009]
Safari hole exploited in seconds at hack contest
News Charlie Miller, who won a contest in 2008 by hacking a MacBook Air, exploited a security hole in Safari within seconds at the CanSecWest conference [19 Mar 2009]
Gov't may track all UK Facebook traffic
News Home Office minister Vernon Coaker has said the government is considering recording the traffic data of all UK citizens on social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Bebo [18 Mar 2009]
Privacy group asks regulators to halt Google apps
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center wants US federal regulators to pull the plug on Google cloud-computing services until government-mandated 'safeguards are verifiably established' [18 Mar 2009]
US regulators question cloud-computing security
News In a meeting convened by the US Federal Trade Commission, regulators suggested they may have to re-examine privacy and security standards to take into account cloud computing [18 Mar 2009]
Privacy vs protection: Police and the right to hack
Q&A Renowned security researcher Mikko Hyppönen discusses the pros and cons of law enforcement using hacking techniques to fight crime [17 Mar 2009]
Customised 'bomb attack' emails delivering malware
News Experts are warning of a scam that fakes news of a bomb in an email recipients' home town and then links to a malicious website that looks like a Reuters article [17 Mar 2009]
Downadup heading for April Fool's mayhem
News The worm blocks access to protective services, downloads a Trojan and is programmed to seek out 50,000 domains on 1 April, as the authors of the worm try to outsmart security vendors [16 Mar 2009]
Microsoft, researcher clash over security patch
News A security researcher has complained that a recent Microsoft patch fails to protect users, but the software maker says doing things differently would have interfered with functionality [16 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web will have privacy built-in
News The Semantic Web will be able to enforce privacy policies set by web users, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee [12 Mar 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, overspending
News The National Offender Management Information System has suffered from budget blowouts, delays and mismanagement, according to the government's spending watchdog [12 Mar 2009]
Bletchley Park secures £600k funding
News The money from Milton Keynes council and English Heritage will help improve the infrastructure of the site of WWII code-breaking efforts [12 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The inventor of the World Wide Web has criticised internet service providers and third parties that intercept web traffic [11 Mar 2009]
Growing number of PCs hit by ID fraud malware
News A study has found that in 2008, a third of computers that were infected by malware designed to steal information for use in identity fraud had up-to-date antivirus software [11 Mar 2009]
Symantec triggers alerts with unsigned Norton patch
News A Norton patch released on Monday night triggered firewall alerts and sent users flocking to forums where Symantec found itself fending off a spam attack [11 Mar 2009]
Microsoft plugs critical holes in Windows
News The software maker has issued patches for critical and important holes in Windows, but failed to plug an Excel hole that is being exploited [11 Mar 2009]
Adobe patches zero-day Reader flaw
News The company has released a security fix for a critical hole in Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 that has reportedly been exploited [11 Mar 2009]
Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News A server seized south of Stockholm contained 65TB of digital data, consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies, according to Swedish authorities [10 Mar 2009]
Government to rethink data-sharing plans
News Jack Straw has written to colleagues in the cabinet requesting further consultation on a clause in the Coroners and Justice Bill that critics said could undermine democracy [09 Mar 2009]
EC expects legal issues around Phorm to be resolved
News The European Commission has said it is looking for a 'positive conclusion' to discussions with the UK government over Phorm's ad-serving technology [06 Mar 2009]
Firefox top for bugs in 2008, but quickest at fixes
News A report finds Mozilla reported more vulnerabilities in its Firefox web browser last year than IE, Safari and Opera combined, but it dealt with flaws quicker than Microsoft [06 Mar 2009]
Firefox 3.0.7 addresses security flaws
News The web browser's second security update in a month addresses eight issues, six of which are deemed critical [05 Mar 2009]
