The National Identity Scheme will be essential in combating the challenges presented by the revolution in technology and mobility, according to a government minister. Speaking at a conference at Chatham House, Home Office minister Liam Byrne said the National ID scheme will be a “21st century public good” and become part of everyday life.
Byrne explained that technology and increased mobility of people and finance have created new cha… read more »
Businesses are still not doing enough to soothe consumer fears about buying online, says the Office of Fair Trading. In its latest market report into internet shopping, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said shoppers still have significant worries about privacy and security, which are limiting the growth of the sector — despite its obvious successes.
Although internet sales have been increasing for years, online sales comprised just three percen… read more »
Anti-phishing features inside popular browsers are failing to curb the onslaught of emails that attempt to steal confidential information. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 incorporate blacklists that warn users when they attempt to visit known phishing websites.
Both vendors claim to have been successful in stopping the attacks, but David Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), and chief e… read more »
The large-scale attack is based on the multiexploit hacker kit dubbed ‘Mpack’. Attackers armed with an exploit toolkit have launched massive attacks in Europe from a network of at least 10,000 hacked Web sites, with infections spreading worldwide, several security companies warned Monday.
As early as last Friday, analysts reported the opening salvos of a large-scale attack based on the multi-exploit hacker kit dubbed “Mpack.R… read more »
If you have a computer taken over by a bot, then you want the FBI to call you. Normally, being contacted by the FBI is not a good thing. That is unless it is notifying you that your computer is under the control of hackers unbeknownst by you. Over one million IP addresses have been identified as being associated with victim computers, according to the FBI.
As a part of a national initiative called Operation Bot Roast, the FBI will be working with… read more »
Web developers and computer programmers gathered together for the first Yahoo! ‘Hack Day’ in London at the weekend. The event was the first in a series of open days, held around the world by the internet services giant for anyone to attend and devise innovative applications. The day, which was also hosted by the BBC, aimed to show web developers how to get more out of the data feeds and interfaces provided by the two companies. Representa… read more »
The CA/Browser Forum, a consortium of four major internet browsers and more than 20 certification authorities, has announced the first set of standardied guidelines to validate the legitimacy of website operators. In the past, sites that issued SSL certificates received little to no scrutiny, Tim Moses, chairman of the forum and the senior director of advanced technology at certification vendor Entrust, told SCMagazine.com today
“Never befo… read more »
At first glance it is not immediately obvious why a sewing machine, handbag and pedometer would be useful to engineers at Internet giant Yahoo, but organisers say anything goes at “Hack Day”. The event is a series of open days held around the world by Yahoo for anyone such as computer programmers and developers to attend and come up with new innovative applications.
The latest event has been held over the last 24 hours in London, stag… read more »
Legitimate web pages taken over by cybercriminals to promote child pornography. IT security and control firm Sophos is warning web hosts of the dangers of not screening content posted on message boards, following the discovery that legitimate web pages have been taken over by cybercriminals using the forums to promote child pornography.
According to experts at Sophos, the affected websites contain many posts that attempt to entice readers to vari… read more »
Although numerous security vendors have testified to a decrease in image spam in recent months, that hasn’t stopped spammers from tweaking their methodologies. In recent weeks, spammers have taken advantage of online photo-hosting services, such as Imageshack and Flickr, to host their images in a technique researchers at MX Logic said this week that they don’t expect to last long.
“It’s one of those things that’s pretty easy to … read more »
