CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, in collaboration with a number of private and public sector bodies and experts, has released a report entitled ‘The Internal Betrayal: A CIFAS Report of Beating the Growing Threat of Staff Fraud’.
http://www.cifas.org.uk/download/The_Internal_Betrayal_CIFAS_Special_Report.pdf
This report noted a 45% increase in the number of cases of fraud committed by employees, compared with [...]

Jailbreaking is a term used to describe a process that will allow users to run third party software on their iPhone, iPad and iPodtouch. This then unlocks the operating system and allows the user to download many different applications from providers other than Apple, while still allowing use of iTunes and [...]

Labour MP, Geraint Davies, believes not enough is being done to stop people using cards to get access to sites hosting illegal images.  Almost 40 MPs have signed a Commons motion calling on the government to bring forward laws, similar to those in the US, to penalise card providers if their products are involved in [...]

Research by Unisys has revealed that a third of UK employees use a personal device for work purposes.  The survey of 987 end-users and 204 CIOs and IT directors across Western Europe revealed gaps in the readiness of businesses to support and secure the rapidly growing use of consumer technologies, such as netbooks, iPads and [...]

Next month a new security layer will be added to web’s address system to help protect users from cyber attacks such as phishing and spam.  The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) will prevent hackers from intercepting DNS data and redirecting users to fake websites.
Leslie Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer at the Internet Society responsible [...]

Deloitte’s 2010 Financial Services Global Security Study has found that almost three-quarters of UK financial services have increased their security budgets in the past year.  The majority of this budget has been spent on identity and access management, and data loss prevention strategies.
“Financial institutions are facing a battle on two fronts in their efforts to [...]

At the CSO Interchange event in London ealier this month, a live poll of 30 Chief Security Officers believed cloud computing solutions to be an opportunity.  It was concluded, however, that industry standards were required to allow those adopting this technology to evaluate and compare alternative cloud providers.
Peter Bauer, CEO and founder of cloud based [...]