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By Rik Ferguson January 07, 2010
On the 1st of January this year German employers became subject to a new legal requirement, one that has their own Data Protection Authorities, Trade...
By Rik Ferguson January 05, 2010
Hot on the heels of the Cross Site Scripting attack on the Spanish EU Presidency site, the official web site of President Ahmadinejad of Iran...
By Rik Ferguson January 05, 2010
As reported by Reuters and the BBC, the official website set up by the Spanish government to mark it’s six-month presidency of the EU was...
By Rik Ferguson December 18, 2009
At about 6am GMT Twitter fell victim to a DNS hijacking attack by a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army” (I wonder if they...
By Rik Ferguson December 16, 2009
2009 has been a notable year for malware and malicious online activity for a number of reasons and several of them relate to what is...
By Rik Ferguson December 07, 2009
Good Cod! Sometimes it feels as though I am endlessly carping on about web site security and the value of personal information and while I...
By Rik Ferguson December 04, 2009
British law enforcement today completed a project dubbed Operation Papworth, aimed at reducing the exposure of the British online shopping public to fraudulent websites in...
By Rik Ferguson November 27, 2009
Back in February of this year, the Romanian hacker Unu found a SQL injection vulnerability in a Kaspersky tech support portal server based in the...
By Rik Ferguson September 14, 2009
Earlier today, the New York Times issued a warning over Twitter and also on the front page of the web site. The newspaper advised visitors...