Following in the footsteps of the US, the UK Government has launched the first national cyber security strategy designed to offer a co-ordinated defence against the ever increasing threat of cyber crime.
The move is an attempt to achieve greater communication between the various national and international agencies and the business and IT worlds to deliver [...]

Social networking is becoming a risky business if recent news headlines are any indication. It seems that we must be wary of the myriad of ways cyber criminals are using social media to entrap us.
Apparently, we have become quite savvy about spotting email threats, so the scammers and malware purveyors are turning to new fertile [...]

The eagerly awaited interim publication of the Government report on the future of digital industries in Britain has suggested that ISPs should be forced to take part in Westminster’s snooping campaign.
According to the authors of ‘Digital Britain’, the UK Government should introduce legislation forcing internet service providers to gather information on customers engaged in illegal [...]

An article last week about Princeton University research into the sophistication of cyber attacks reminded me just how important it is for online businesses to take their security seriously.
The great strength of the internet is its accessibility but unfortunately the trade off is that this can also be its vulnerability. Providing access to [...]

Statistical surveys are interesting not just for the results they show but also for why they show those results. It is often said that stats can be made to support just about any contention depending on the timing, question wording, sample group etc. And I certainly give a lot of credence to such a [...]

A former judge in California has been sentenced to 27 months in jail on Internet child abuse charges. The ground breaking thing about the case is that some of the evidence was provided by a Canadian hacker who planted a Trojan Horse on an Internet newsgroup visited by paedophiles that was then downloaded by 66-year-old [...]

The technology headlines are dominated this week by security issues. Specifically in the UK, the government has produced guidelines to educate on the issue of cyber-bullying while globally the latest Sophos report reveals that Asian spammers are more now prevalent that US spammers for the first time ever.
The anti-virus companies are of course riding high [...]

When you read statements like; “every day at least 400 credit card numbers are sold,” it’s easy to dismiss it off hand, that is until it happens. Then it feels like a real invasion of privacy, which of course, it is.
When looking for a new bank account or credit card provider, do you ask the [...]