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By Alan Bentley January 26, 2011
In an interview, Intel CTO Justin Rattner has revealed that Intel will release technology this year that will stop zero-day threats on the device. He...
By Alan Bentley December 10, 2010
A 16-year-old boy suspected of being involved in the attacks on the MasterCard and PayPal sites was arrested yesterday in Holland. At the same time...
By Alan Bentley November 11, 2010
November may be a lighter patch Tuesday than the last, but there’s still plenty to keep IT managers on their toes. This month’s patch load...
By Alan Bentley November 05, 2010
Microsoft may be taking a bit of a breather, but that doesn’t mean an easy month for IT managers this patch Tuesday. Following the biggest...
By Alan Bentley November 04, 2010
An attack on Mynanmar’s internet ahead of Sunday’s elections, the first in the country’s political history for 20 years, represents the dark side of ‘hacktivism’,...
By Alan Bentley October 26, 2010
The Iranian Cyber Army (ICA) has announced its intention to sell access to its botnets, which have been responsible for attacks on social networks like...
By Alan Bentley October 18, 2010
The national security strategy has been announced today, listing cyber warfare as the second most prominent threat to Britain. With cybercrime now ranking as Britain’s...
By Alan Bentley October 13, 2010
Microsoft has released 16 patches to fix an unprecedented 49 vulnerabilities in its products, including Windows, Internet Explorer, MS-Office and Microsoft Word 2010. This comes...
By Alan Bentley October 04, 2010
There may not be many tubes on the move in London tomorrow, but as TFL workers down tools and London businesses buckle down to ride...
By Alan Bentley September 30, 2010
UK Level 1 Merchants that accept Visa payments and process more than 6 million transactions annually will need to comply with the original v1.2 PCI...
By Alan Bentley September 24, 2010
Stuxnet is one of the most complex pieces of malware ever detected and the first known to target real-world infrastructure such as water plants, power...
By Alan Bentley August 13, 2010
The closure of 180 websites responsible for an income tax ‘phishing’ scam over the past three months represents another stage in the ongoing rise of...
By Alan Bentley August 11, 2010
As predicted, IT administrators will be tackling a bumper Patch Tuesday from Microsoft this August – covering 15 bulletins, nine of which are critical. IT...
By Alan Bentley August 06, 2010
Any last ditch effort to enjoy the end of summer is being put off with another huge Patch Tuesday. More than half of the patches...
By Alan Bentley July 13, 2010
The Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested five alleged hackers and shut down Packbugs.com, an online social network for hackers, following complaints from various...