Hackers using social engineering to obtain details. By Stuart Poole-Robb Professional social networking site LinkedIn has proven to be a valuable business tool, bringing together professionals from all over the…
Day: September 21, 2015
Crime levels tipped to soar after inclusion of fraud statistics
A government report published in 2011 estimated that cyber crime costs the UK economy £27bn a year. By PA Crime levels will rise by up to 40% when new estimates of…
biggest single victim of a phone scam
A company in Suffolk is thought to have become the biggest single victim of a phone scam after handing over £1 million to bogus caller A business was conned into…
Symantec Sacks Staff After Issuing Unauthorized Google Certs
Pre-certificate was neither requested nor authorized by Google Phil Muncaster Symantec has been forced to sack several employees after Google spotted that the firms CA subsidiary Thawte issued unauthorized certificates…
Cyber-risk Knowledge Gap Widens Between C-Suite and IT
Board level ownership of cyber risk in UK numbers just 19.4 percent Tara Seals When it comes to alerting C-suite executives about cyber-risk, IT and security professionals are still doing…
Key expired on September 3rd.
Key expired on September 3rd. Chris Williams Taiwanese networking kit maker D-Link leaked a private code-signing key onto the internet for anyone to download. This is rather embarrassing because this…