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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 18:33h): The White Hat Rally – One Olympic race not to miss
The UK Information Security community lines up to raise money for Barnardo’s in a 3 day tour across the Country. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 18:11h): White House cybersecurity czar to step down
Howard Schmidt, the White House’s cybersecurity coordinator, said he will be stepping down from his post at the end of May after two and half years in the position. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 17:42h): Google doles out $16,500 in bug bounties with Chrome 19 release
Google has shipped its Chrome 19 browser with 20 security fixes, including eight designated “high” severity, and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 17:00h): UK council objects to ICO fine for data loss resulting from burglary
A UK council is objecting to a 70,000-pound fine levied by the Information Commissioner’s Office ICO for losing sensitive data as the result of a theft at an employee’s home. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 16:45h): US firms team with German institute on cybersecurity center
US high-tech firms have teamed with German research institute Fraunhofer FOKUS to open a cybersecurity research center in Berlin. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 14:33h): 25 civil servants reprimanded weekly for data breach
Government databases are full of highly prized and highly sensitive personal information. The upcoming Communications Bill will generate one of the very largest databases. The government says it will not include personal information. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 14:24h): Vulnerability found in Mobile Spy spyware app
Mobile Spy is covert spyware designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s smartphones, employers to catch time-wasters, and partners to detect cheating spouses. But vulnerabilities mean the covertly spied-upon can become the covert spy. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (17.05.2012 13:48h): Governments make a grab for the internet
Although the internet is officially governed by a bottom-up multi-stakeholder non-governmental model, many governments around the world believe it leaves the US with too much control; and they want things to change. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 22:23h): One-third of firms suffered critical information theft in past two years
More than one-third of organizations surveyed reported suffering at least one breach in the last 24 months that resulted in critical information being stolen, according to a survey conducted by IANS and sponsored by network security firm Fidelis Security Systems. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 19:10h): Apple belatedly fixes Flashback-related issues in Leopard
Apple has issued two security fixes for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that targets holes exploited by the Flashback malware. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 18:45h): McAfee uncovers Pinterest scamming toolkits
US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 18:20h): Online travel industry is most vulnerable to email attack
The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 17:42h): Utah governor fires state's technology director over medical data breach
Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services DTS over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 15:00h): Canada’s interception bill C-30 dead in the water?
For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead; it appears that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ plans to ease police tracking of those who use the web for criminal purposes has been shelved. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 14:55h): New iOS jailbreak expected next week
This year’s Hack-in-the-Box Netherlands security conference takes place next week at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam, and will be the first ever week-long HITB event. A new iOS jailbreak is expected. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (16.05.2012 14:49h): UK companies are cyber self-confident
A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 19:36h): Firms fear customer frustration, brand damage from DDoS attacks
Three-quarters of IT professionals surveyed cited the impact on customer experience and brand as their greatest fears about distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, according to a survey sponsored by internet analysis firm Neustar. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 19:00h): Internet crime costs consumers close to half a billion dollars, says IC3
Losses from internet crime reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 totaled $485.3 million in 2011 and the number of complaints increased 3.4% last year compared to 2010. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 18:35h): Adobe caves to pressure and decides to offer free security fixes
Adobe has decided to provide free security updates for the CS5 versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash Professional after receiving flak for only offering the fixes through paid upgrades to CS6. [
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Rolling Thunder (15.05.2012 18:30h): Banks, cybercriminals wage 'war of escalation'
Banks and cybercriminals are engaged in a “war of escalation”, warned Peter Tapling, Authentify president and chief executive officer. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 18:21h): Cloud Security Alliance & ISACA want industry input on cloud maturity
The Cloud Security Alliance CSA and ISACA have teamed for the first time on an industry survey examining cloud market maturity. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 17:57h): McAfee, Intel team on ‘reference implementation’ to secure power grid
At a time when cyberthreats to critical infrastructure are growing, McAfee and Intel have teamed to create a “reference implementation” for the energy sector that integrates a number of McAfee security products for substations and network operations centers with Intel processors and hardware-based security and management technologies. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 14:00h): Facebook clarifies privacy policy in response to regulatory probes
Following probes by US and European regulators, Facebook is proposing changes to its privacy policy to be more explicit about how it handles members’ information. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 13:17h): The danger in service operators’ censorship filters
Yesterday we reported that the German Pirate Party had been ‘accidentally’ blocked by an automatic content filtering system used by many German schools. And yesterday the Open Rights Group and the LSE Media Policy Unit published a new report: Mobile Internet censorship: What’s happening and what we can do about it. [
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Infosecurity - Latest News (15.05.2012 12:52h): Security is driving cloud adoption
In its 2012 Disaster Preparedness survey, Symantec finds a link between the three great movers of contemporary computing: virtualization, cloud computing and mobility. That link, surprisingly, is security – or more specifically, it is the need for adequate disaster recovery capabilities. [
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