IT security and data protection firm Sophos has published its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report. The report reveals that fake …
ESET announces special offer for business
IT security vendor ESET Middle East has announced a special offer for organisations looking to secure their networks in the …
Region’s smart card market set for marked growth
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) smart cards market will reach USD 328.5m by 2014, with the telecommunication sector …
Sony Grappling with 55 U.S. Lawsuits After PSN Hack
It looks like Sony may be going to court, and we’re not talking once, or thrice, but 55 times over. …
Norton reveals top threats targeting smartphones
Cybercrooks are increasingly capitalising on the mass adoption of mobile devices by exploiting smartphone users, at home or at work. …
Achilles’ heel
We’d recently organised a roundtable discussion on the very esoteric topic of SCADA with regional security experts help AG, which …
“Anonymous” arrests tied to PayPal DDoS attacks, FBI says
The FBI said this afternoon that it had arrested a total of 14 individuals thought to belong to the Anonymous …
ComGuard supports Zayed University’s URC 2011
ComGuard, a distributor for IT security products and solutions in the Middle East and North Africa region supported the Third …
Spammers not making as much money: Cisco
Worms, denial-of-service attacks and spam just aren’t paying out like they used to. That’s what Cisco Systems found when it …
Mozilla to add PDF viewer to Firefox
Mozilla is working on a project that will add PDF rendering to Firefox using HTML5 and JavaScript, eliminating the need …
EU ministers to ban creation of ‘hacking tools’
Justice Ministers across Europe want to make the creation of “hacking tools” a criminal offense, but critics have hit back …
How hot is your data?
According to industry commentator James Taylor, “Analytics simplify data to amplify its value”. The problem is that data today for …
Acer says names, emails hacked in Europe
Taiwanese PC maker Acer is investigating the hacker attack that stole customer data from its Packard Bell unit in Europe, …
Citigroup breach impacts 200,000 cardholders
Citigroup has acknowledged that hackers broke into its network and stole credit-card information related to tens of thousands of customers …
Sony Pictures hacked
LulzSec, a hacking group that recently made news for hacking into PBS, claimed today that it has broken into several …
Obama’s CTO eyes the cloud
The federal government is “bullish” on prospects for using cloud and mobile technologies, although perhaps not at the expense of …
Gmail targeted by phishers
Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors …
Sony offers free identity theft protection
Sony began letting its U.S. PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity customers sign up yesterday for free identity theft protection services …
Sony hacked again, customer records posted online
The problems keep coming for Sony. Yesterday, the company confirmed that someone had hacked into its website and stolen about …
Caught in the Web
With increased use of the Internet, organisations worldover have realised the infinite benefits and challenges associated with using this channel. …