Thursday 26th

International information security expert Lieutenant Colonel (Ret’d) William Hagestad II is today warning UK businesses could fall victim to cyberattacks from China unless they improve their cybersecurity.
Speaking at Cyber Defence & Network Security 2012 in London, Hagestad said: “The threat of Chinese...

Varonis Systems has welcomed news that a common set of privacy standards are to be applied to organisations across the entire European Union for the first time - as well as a gameplan that includes immediate notification of breaches and other ‘data misplacements’...

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, today announced the release of the second Imperva Web Application Attack Report (WAAR), which revealed that web applications are subject to business logic attacks. The WAAR...

Wednesday 25th

Protecting data and privacy in the digital part of our lives with all its online activities has become a major aspect of “consumer identity”. In 2012, the debate surrounding the protection of personal data will intensify further; KuppingerCole expects it to be the dominant subject in the coming years in this field of IT...

Perceptive Software, creator of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) solutions, announces the general availability of its Perceptive Reflect process mining and visualisation product. Perceptive Reflect allows users to quickly visualise how applications and people...

m-hance, one of the fastest growing suppliers of business software solutions to mid-sized organisations, has announced plans to increase its investment in developing its own cloud, social and mobile technology solutions at its inaugural customer conference...

Tuesday 24th

Opengear, a leading provider of secure enterprise-grade console servers and remote management solutions, today announced the launch of its next-generation, customizable remote monitoring and management (RMM) gateway product family, the Opengear ACM5500. Opengear makes it easy...

Monday 23rd

Agfa HealthCare announces that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, has expanded its relationship with the vendor, adding the IMPAX Data Center solution family. A longstanding Agfa HealthCare customer, MGH also intends to upgrade to IMPAX PACS version 6.5, supporting the need for timely and...

Commenting on reports that DreamHost, the US West Coast-based hosting provider, has reset all of its many users passwords in the wake of a hacker incursion into its systems, Avecto says the hack could probably have been prevented through the effective management of end user privileges...

Thursday 19th

Avecto – the leader in Windows privilege management, today announced that it is a finalist in three 2012 Global Excellence Awards categories. Info Security Products Guide - the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has shortlisted Avecto as Best Overall Security Company, Best...

Survey finds almost half of SharePoint users disregard the security within SharePoint, and copy sensitive or confidential documents to insecure hard drives, USB keys or even email it to a third party...

Wednesday 18th

Commenting on reports that the T-Mobile USA Web server has been hacked by the TeaMp0isoN hacktivist group, Avecto says that a multi-layered security strategy could have helped to prevent the crack, as well as saving the troubled US cellular carrier considerable embarrassment...

Tuesday 17th

Commenting on suggestions in public sector journal UKAuthorITy that staff – rather than the taxpayer – should be held liable for data breach penalties from the Information Commissioner’s Office, Cryptzone says that the move, whilst superficially attractive, could have negative results in the medium-to-longer term...

Newham College, a leading further education institution has significantly streamlined its purchase-to-pay processes with Version One’s document imaging system, DbArchive, and automated invoice processing solution, DbCapture. Newham College has also implemented Version One’s recently developed...

Following the news that a former NHS care assistant has been convicted of obtaining the medical records of five members of her ex-husband's family in order to obtain their new phone numbers, Varonis Systems says this rogue employee incident shows why the automation of IT security enforcement is critical to...

Monday 16th

Today Fujitsu launch a new range of desktop scanners, ‘The Z-Generation’, to join their flagship fi-series of desktop business scanners. The Z-Generation consists of four new premium scanners: fi-6130Z, fi-6230Z, fi-6140Z and fi-6240Z. The new range combines the ultra-high performance and image quality of the fi-series...

Commenting on reports that Anonymous has apparently published the credentials of several Israeli SCADA system users, SecurEnvoy has expressed surprise that the systems concerned were not also protected by authentication technology...

Friday 13th

AlienVault - the Unified Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions specialist – has found evidence of Chinese-originated attacks against the US government agencies including the US Department of Defense (DoD), which use a new strain of the Sykipot malware to compromise DoD...

Thursday 12th

Accusoft Pegasus, the leading provider of document viewers and imaging software development kits (SDKs), announces the launch of Prizm PDF Converter, a PDF conversion utility, enabling users to reduce software licensing costs otherwise required to process a variety of documents. Prizm PDF Converter creates...

Wednesday 11th

Commenting on the launch of the Victorinox one-terabyte Swiss Army Knife - unveiled on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - Varonis Systems says that, with these levels of data storage hidden in a humble pocket knife, organisations need to take extra care when defending their corporate...

Tuesday 10th

Visioneer® and Xerox® have today announced the first battery powered scanner that uses Wi-Fi to wirelessly transmit JPG images and multipage PDF files from the scanner to computers, mobile phones, pads and the cloud…the Xerox Mobile Scanner. Using a free mobile app, the device is able to...

Monday 9th

Talari Networks, Inc. today announced the addition of the Mercury T510 appliance to its family of Adaptive Private Networking (APN) products for WAN Virtualization, offering enterprise-grade connectivity for small branch offices. The company also announced an accompanying software release, APNware 2.3, which...

MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of digital high-resolution, network-based video security systems has released details of a project at a new state of the art, multi million pound data centre built by Oxford University that is benefiting from advanced MOBOTIX CCTV technology to improve operational procedures...

Friday 6th

Commenting on reports that Utah Valley University researchers have analysed the many hundreds of thousands of Stratfor user account credentials which were hacked by Anonymous late last year due to weak passwords, SecurEnvoy says this proves the fact that the human element in security is now the weakest link...

Thursday 5th

Canon today unveiled the latest addition to its high-performance XEED projector range. The WUX5000 offers a high 5000 lumens brightness together with a range of Canon lens options and features to make installation as easy as possible. The WUX5000 provides exceptionally high image quality, making it ideally suited to...

Wednesday 4th

Accusoft Pegasus, the leading provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and viewers, releases ImageGear Professional v17 for Windows DLL, including full-page OCR support and support for searchable compressed PDF creation...

Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced), a market leading business applications and services provider, is a finalist in the Software Provider of the Year category of the inaugural Pay & Benefits Awards 2012.
Advanced is one of five companies shortlisted for the award, with the winner being announced during an...

Tuesday 3rd

1.07 million sites compromised proves that SQL injection is most pernicious vulnerability
Commenting on reports that the so-called `Lilupophilupop.com’ SQL injection attack has now compromised more than a million sites, Imperva says the fact that the number of site comprises has soared in just a...

Commenting on reports that a researcher has discovered a gaping hole in the security of the WiFi Protection Setup (WPS) method of simplifying the pairing of a device with several brands of wireless access point, Cryptzone says that WiFi users should be more concerned with the fact that wireless passwords have...

Thursday 22nd

SecurEnvoy has welcomed news that Windows 8 will offer users the opportunity to log in using a gesture-authenticated photo, but cautions that pictorial login technology may come as a disappointment to some users...

Commenting on reports that the payment card data of 1,440 customers of a US firm have been sold on a searchable ‘carder forum’ for $3.50 each, Lieberman Software says this is a classic case of why privileged identity management is needed to secure private customer data on corporate networks...

Tuesday 20th

Commenting on research from Cisco – claiming to show a “startling” lack of concern about security amongst students and young professionals – Infosecurity Europe says this highlights the need for better and more pervasive education on the subject of IT security...

Avecto today revealed that as the migration to Windows 7 is proving a catalyst to organisations, banks are stepping up to the challenge to protect themselves against malware attacks abusing admin rights. In its dealings with more than 50 banks globally, Avecto found that while enterprises in most sectors are aware...

Friday 16th

Cryptzone has welcomed news that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has requested the right to conduct compulsory data audits of NHS and local government authorities, saying that the move comes after a litany of data breaches involving the NHS and councils...