Concern over child register
There are some serious concerns about the new government register that will have the details of every child in England stored on it.
Senior social workers are criticising the new database called “Contact Point” as there is some confusion as to who will be reasonable for the vetting of users and how the system will [...]
Creating safe Passwords
The humble password is what keeps other people out of your affairs; this could be everything from access to your work or even more serious to your financial dealings such as Pay Pal, eBay and even banking. The thing about passwords is that they are hard to remember, and nobody wants to write them down. [...]
August 28, 2007The human element
Who needs serious security measures when you have humans in the equation? It has been a long standing thought that technology is ok; it is the human element that causes the problems. And this has been the case with several high level incidents.
Recently we have seen the California Public Employees Retirement System send out names, [...]
Data stolen from Monster.com
Jobseekers need to be very aware of a situation that happened at the job site Monster.com, the thieves made off with hundreds of thousands of resumes, so now it would appear that the phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other personal data could now be in the hands of criminals out to steal identities and much [...]
August 23, 2007Airport whistle blowers are fired
With security being at the top of the list for most airports, when a serious breach has occurred you would have thought that the people who let the authorities know would have been applauded, that is if it wasn’t the company that you work for allowing the breaches of security occur in the first place.
The [...]
Companies failing to secure networks
It is a sad fact that many businesses, most of them being large organisations are failing to protect their own network traffic. In fact there are around five per cent of these large organisations that have no security measures at all, meaning that their data can be accessed by anyone who can be bothered to [...]
August 20, 2007Spam still getting through security
We went through a period of time when the security of our computer systems appeared to have got the measure of the spammers. But despite having up to date email filters and firewalls, the spammers are fighting back and they are getting through.
Now our inboxes appear to be filling up with e-greetings cards and partially [...]
Yahoo Messenger has Vulnerability
Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs have found a vulnerability in the Yahoo Messenger system, which could possibly leave the user open to an outside attack.
News of the bug was first showning up on a Chinese language forum, which cover security issues, this alerted the McAfee researchers who began to check it out and unfortunately were [...]
Security in design
Designers are normally looking to the cutting edge to surprise and thrill us with their ideas, but there is now a growing trend for designers to be looking at design and security. These designs are being implemented in order to prevent theft.
This is being hailed as the new weapons against the criminals, these crime designers [...]
Germany introduces new anti hacker measures
The draconian measures will attempt to criminalize the creation or even just having any software that will allow the user to even attempt to hack or enter a Website without permission.
These updates aim to make the hackers into criminals; this includes denial of service attacks and other hacking assaults mainly against other individuals, which is [...]
Online shopping set to keep growing
Within Europe the trend for people to shop online keeps growing and it is not expected to slow down for some time yet.
Being able to shop without the hassle of leaving home and getting caught up in crowds etc will help the figures grow to an astonishing £200 million by 2011, which works out [...]
Airport security adequate against attacks
There have been concerns regarding the security arrangements at Durham Tees Valley Airport. This comes after the MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland; Ashok Kumar brought the subject of the airports security up in the House of Commons.
The reasoning is that the airport is used by the general public and military personnel from the [...]
Laptop battery causes stir at airport
Do you carry a spare laptop battery in your bag when you travel? If so and many of us do, there could be trouble ahead.
It has been noted that certain laptop battery packs are fairly funny in shape, so much to say that they look vaguely like a gun! Yes a gun, remember we are [...]
VoIP may be vulnerable
It would appear that VoIP might not be as safe and secure as we all think, and considering the rise in users this could be a serious problem for the many users and providers too.
Testers from VoIP security consultants have been finding ways of compromising computers via VoIP software clients.
This has been demonstrated at a [...]
Security issues on MyBlogLog sign in
It appears that there was a serious security issue with the MyBlogLog signing in process. Normally to sign in you would need your email address and password. But what was happening when some people were attempting to sign in, they put in their email address, as you do with many sign in’s. But went it [...]
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