Scott Nursten, Managing Director of s2s, has sent us this letter...

Read More

Internet security tests, conducted by NTA Monitor during 2005, showed that many web servers and web-based applications were vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks. Now a concerning new cross site scripting method is beginning to appear that could allow attackers to monitor visitors' searches, usernames and passwords without their knowledge.

Read More

CipherTrust, Inc. has found a 23 per cent increase in the total number of zombies detected this week due to the release of a modification of the Mocbot worm.

Read More

British businesses must refuse to be left behind by UK Government complacency regarding Information Security compliance. With no set date for a UK equivalent to Sarbanes-Oxley, compliance seems to be slipping down the list of priorities for IT Directors trying to juggle multiple and often conflicting priorities, argues Lorraine Cousins, Managing Director of Halcyon Software - a provider of systems monitoring and security compliance solutions.

Read More

July spam subject lines, phishing targets and viruses

Read More

A third of computer users are suffering from access amnesia by failing to remember multiple passwords, according to research conducted by Citrix, the access infrastructure specialist. This syndrome is leading to users being blocked from applications.

Read More

IT security firm, Sophos, is reminding companies of the importance of obeying anti-spam laws following the announcement of legal action being taken against two companies accused of sending unsolicited emails about gambling and alcoholic drinks to children.

Read More

For the third year running, small businesses have told AXA that IT systems failure is the most feared threat to their ongoing health and profitability. 91 per cent of respondents identify IT failure as a threat with 23 per cent of these believing it to be significant. IT problems were also identified by a quarter of respondents as the most common cause of total business failure.

Read More

Malware writers have developed IM worms capable of attacking all major IM networks, according to Kaspersky Lab, one of the worlds leading anti-virus companies. The company predicts that the industry will witness a rise in IM worms which can spread via multiple IM networks, triggering the demise of traditional IM worms, such as Bropia, Kelvia and Prex, which spread via single IM networks, such as MSN.

Read More

BT, the University of Glamorgan in Wales and Edith Cowan University in Australia have issued a report based on research to determine whether second hand computer disks that were purchased from a number of sources still contained any information or whether the information had been effectively erased.

Read More