Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 15:27:00

Monitoring web traffic or offering financial incentives to encourage
countries to protect systems could improve national security

Security experts have warned that the UK needs to a…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 10:52:00

Cloud-based services released in time for busy Christmas shopping period

Online authentication firm VeriSign has launched three cloud-based services
designed to help online retailers …

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 19 October 2010 at 10:31:00

Hackers move on from PDFs

Microsoft has highlighted an “unprecedented” wave of attacks aimed at Java
over the past three months.

Attacks on Java vulnerabilities have i…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Monday 18 October 2010 at 14:30:00

Stonesoft research reveals almost undetectable network-based threats

Security vendor Stonesoft claims to have discovered a dangerous new category
of threat which could render network s…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Monday 18 October 2010 at 12:36:00

Average loss per person reaches £1,000

Identity fraud affects over 1.8 million people a year at a cost of £2.7bn,
according to new figures from the National Fraud Authority (NFA).

The a…

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David Neal, V3.co.uk, Monday 18 October 2010 at 12:12:00

UK facing very serious threat, says Theresa May

The UK home secretary has confirmed that the government is aware of the
threat of sophisticated terror attacks designed to take out the coun…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 18 October 2010 at 02:03:00

Phone Creeper is a step too far, says security firm

F-Secure is blocking a sophisticated mobile phone spying application, despite
being ambivalent about the creator’s mo…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 16 October 2010 at 18:11:00

‘Hacktivists’ deface site over tuition fee row

A Liberal Democrat web site has been hacked by protestors and defaced with
messages warning leader Nick Clegg not to break his pre-elec…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 16 October 2010 at 08:30:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

This week in security was dominated by some stark warnings from security
experts about the cyber security readiness of governments includi…

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Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Saturday 16 October 2010 at 06:57:00

Red herrings from the computing world

Shaun started the week at McAfee’s Focus 2010 conference, and we had security
on our minds, so thought we’d cov…

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Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Friday 15 October 2010 at 15:32:00

Members raise concerns with Home Office security minister

The House of Lords has raised a number of concerns about the UK’s cyber
security defence strategy, warning that greater know…

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Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 16:55:00

Former US security chief argues for framework on responding to malicious
attacks

Governments are in a “cyber arms race” with criminals and need to put
processes in place that clarify thei…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 14:42:00

Office for Cyber Security heralds more serious approach to defence of
critical infrastructure

The government is to step up investment in its national cyber security
strategy with a m…

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V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 08:21:00

Data mining through Twitter applications on display

McAfee Labs head of research Dave Marcus shows reporters how social
networking sites such as Twitter can be used to gather far more information th…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 01:53:00

One price covers users for the life of the computer

Security software vendor GFI are trialing a new form of software pricing
structure,
whereby a user buys protection…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 14 October 2010 at 01:43:00

Company shows cyber crime in action

McAfee is running a demonstration at its Focus conference in Las Vegas
designed to show the ease with which a malware botnet can b…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at 14:50:00

Latest Security Intelligence report reveals promising stats

Positive news for the security industry emerged today after Microsoft’s
latest Security Intelligence report revealed a re…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 13 October 2010 at 13:14:00

Richard Clarke attacks countries including Russia and Moldova for harbouring
cyber criminals

A former presidential special advisor on cyber security has called on the UK,
US and Eur…

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SQL Server fingerprinting can be a time consuming process. It involves a lot many trial and error methods to fingerprint the exact SQL Server version. Intentionally inserting an invalid input to obtain a typical error message or using certain alphabets…

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Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 10 October 2010 at 09:52:00

We round up the week’s top security stories

This week was dominated by the news that Microsoft and Oracle are planning
huge patch updates on Tuesday. Other key stories included RIM fin…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 8 October 2010 at 03:38:00

Executive says PCs without a valid ‘health certificate’ could be blocked from
internet

A security executive at Microsoft is suggesting a plan to limit internet
access fo…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Wednesday 6 October 2010 at 23:02:00

Spammer remains adamant that he won’t pay a penny

A Canadian court has upheld a fine imposed on spammer
Adam Guerbuez after he lost
his case against Facebook.

Guerbue…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 04:11:00

Regime says virus will be under control within a month

Iran has arrested an unspecified number of people for allegedly enabling the
Stuxnet malware to
access
to its nucl…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 04:01:00

Spam, phishing levels up in region

The number of cyber crime operations emanating from Europe is growing,
according to security experts.

Trend Micro said that over the…

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Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Monday 4 October 2010 at 16:53:00

Met chief warns e-crime expertise falling behind cyber gangs’ methods

Police officers fighting against the growing surge of cyber criminals are as
vital to the fight against crime as uniform…

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Lawrence Latif, V3.co.uk, Monday 4 October 2010 at 16:14:00

Law firm Gallant Macmillan’s site also attacked after pursuing file sharers

Gallant Macmillan, the latest law firm to go after file sharers, has had its
web site knocked off the intern…

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The number one biggest security hole is passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallelized (multi-threaded) login cracker which supports attacking/cracking numerous protocols. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flex…

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V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 at 15:46:00

V3.co.uk readers’ most popular stories this week

This week’s top story with V3.co.uk readers was our rundown of the
best Android phones, reflecting the unstoppable march of Google’s mob…

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Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 1 October 2010 at 03:40:00

Virus Bulletin conference hears conflicting evidence on malware

Delegates at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver have heard that
the Stuxnet worm could have b…

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Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Thursday 30 September 2010 at 22:28:00

More arrests made in botnet crackdown

Law enforcement groups have continued their pursuit of the Zeus malware
botnet operators with arrests in the US.

Federal and …

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