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And the Academy Award for the most dangerous search term goes to…

The team at Norton have been busy digging through the gossip since Sunday’s glamorous Oscar ceremony. They weren’t just looking for juicy rumours though; they’ve been looking for malware around the Academy Awards. Cybercriminals often take advantage of public interest in both individual celebrities and world entertainment events, so it is ...

Importance of end-to-end encryption in the retail space

Our attention was caught recently by an interesting article on Retail Week by Verifone, which examined the importance of credit and debit card protection in the retail industry. As Verifone quite rightly points out, the theft of credit and debit card details is a highly lucrative activity and its popularity ...

Lock Up Your Code

It has emerged that the latest set of high-profile cyber attacks were against source control management systems. For those not in the software engineering business, this is where source code for applications is held during development. A strange target you might think? Cyber-criminals have been taking a longer and longer view ...

Storage Goes Wild…

Good news... the CompactFlash Association has just released its V5 specification. This will up the maximum capacity to 144PB... as if the existing 137GB isn't enough! Of course, it will be some time (couple of decades?) before we see devices with anywhere near this quantity of storage - but it is ...

UK ID fraud cases jump a third as malicious insiders turn to cybercrime

ID fraud in the UK has increased by nearly a third (31.79 per cent) in 2009, according to a new report from CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, as compromised identity details continue to be sold over the internet. The report points to an increase in gangs using collusive staff ...

The Butterfly effect – Mariposa

A virus-infected network of nearly 13 million computers around the world has been smashed by Spanish police. The Mariposa, or Butterfly, botnet included PCs inside more than half of America's 1,000 biggest companies and more than 40 major banks. Our colleague Vikram Thakur recently wrote a blog about the threat. Symantec ...

The RSA Conference – Cloud, devices & social changing the game?

The weather may still be cold in London, but San Francisco has been hot this week, especially for the security industry. The USA RSA Conference is one of the premier security events, educating and connecting security professionals from around the world. Symantec’s CEO Enrique Salem took the stage earlier in the ...

Financial Data and the Mobile Generation

Last week we blogged about a report forecasting an increase in people using mobile devices to interact with their banks. At around the same time, Cisco also announced the findings of its US retail bank study, looking at How the Post-Crisis Financial Needs of Younger Consumers Will Transform Retail Banking ...

Is online security hindered by computer jargon?

Whether computer jargon is creating a barrier preventing people from learning how to protect themselves online is a discussion taking place at this week’s EastWest Institute meeting of global security experts. The EastWest Institute is a 'think-and-do tank' dedicated to debating pressing global security concerns and working with a network of ...

2010s Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors…

The new report from CWE and the SANS Institute on programming errors has now been released. It is based on the combined thinking of experts across the globe and a number of other sources. It should be made compulsory reading for all software engineers... whether developing internal applications or global products! The ...