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Spear-Phishing, News and Twitter Accounts: Why Corporate Credentials Must be Protected The Daily Telegraph is the latest victim in a series of high-profile attacks against media organizations.  The group that is behind these attacks, the ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ (SEA), has hijacked Twitter accounts and online operations of several media organizations, including the Financial Times, The [...]

Connexion2 acquired by Kings III of America Inc in move to supply class-leading lone worker solutions globally Lone worker market leader Connexion2 has been acquired by the US’ leading emergency communications company, Kings III of America in a strategic move to strengthen core business offerings on either side of the Atlantic and to develop sales [...]

Security consultancy wins recognition for highest levels of standards in security testing Digital Assurance, an independent security assessment and information assurance consultancy, has announced it has been awarded CREST accreditation for the penetration testing services. Digital Assurance passed CREST’s rigorous assessment and certification process to demonstrate the very highest levels of standards in security testing. [...]

Industry survey examines trends in Cloud, co-location, and provisioning of storage & server capacity, highlights growing need for Unified Computing Platforms An in-depth survey conducted by NextiraOne, Europe’s leading expert in communications services, in conjunction with Data Centre Solutions, has highlighted a growing need for Unified Computing Platforms as IT directors focus on increasing performance [...]

News Highlights: HID Global will showcase its Government ID Solutions portfolio and integrated capabilities for delivering smart card ID credentials and total ID ecosystems for e-passport, national ID, foreign resident, worker ID and vehicle registration programs Company executives will also present on latest innovations in government e-ID technologies, deployments and issuance models HID Global®, a worldwide [...]

Reports yesterday suggested that the EC Council had been compromised by a hacker called “Godzilla”. Godzilla is known for breaching the Pakistani Government websites few months ago. The hacker claimed to have gained access to admin desk and accessed the course materials for CEHV8, CHFIV4, ECSS,ECSA_LPT4. Imperva’s Web Research Team Leader, Tal Be’ery looked into [...]

Following the announcement yesterday, Thursday 16th of May, about how E-Skills UK has teamed up with organisations to launch cyber security apprenticeships, Etienne Greeff, managing director SecureData comments about the importance of these apprenticeships for UK businesses. “Cybercrime is a very serious issue and can cause UK businesses to lose thousands of pounds each day. The announcement [...]

New Book from ISACA and Ernst & Young LLP Offers How-to Guidance on Combating Advanced Attacks The advanced persistent threat (APT) is waging an all-out attack on enterprises’ intellectual property. Yet most companies continue to try to protect themselves using approaches that are years out of date. That is one of the conclusions in Responding [...]

Checks carried out by the Police Service Northern Ireland and Security Industry Authority investigators on Saturday11th of May, found five security personnel working illegally. The PSNI and SIA investigators carried out inspections at 19 venues, checking 80 security personnel in Lurgan, Newry and Portadown. The venues included pubs, bars and nightclubs. In Lurgan, warnings were [...]

Leading supermarket Albert Heijn Veldhoven select next generation DirectIP™ high-definition surveillance to reduce shrinkage and improve retail experience  Albert Heijn Veldhoven, part of the Ahold group of international supermarkets, has rolled out DirectIP™ to reduce and prevent shrinkage while improving the overall retail experience.  Like many retailers, Albert Heijn Veldhoven wanted to use video surveillance [...]