As of last week, an agreement has been reached between the BPI, the Motion Picture Association, the UK Government and six major Internet service providers (BT, Virgin, Carphone Warehouse, Orange, Tiscali and BskyB), agreement that states all of them will work together to fight illegal file sharing. One of the first m... |
28 July 2008
07:06 GMT |
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As promised, NXP has sued the Radboud University so that it would not publicly disclose how Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs managed to crack the Oyster card which uses NXP Mifare technologies. The court hearings which began on the 10th of July came to an end today when the judge ruled in favor of the university."Radboud... |
18 July 2008
11:08 GMT |
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The PCI DSS (short for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a set of rules and guidelines meant to protect the customer and merchant against fraud. Since you will be providing the merchant with your credit card info, it is important that it stays safe from attackers and hackers. UK based department store ... |
11 July 2008
11:36 GMT |
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Recent security related events in the UK have proven that data security is not taken as seriously as it should be. Security software vendors and manufacturers try waging a never ending fight against spam, viruses and other types of malicious software, but data still isn't safe. According to the officials, the f... |
11 July 2008
11:19 GMT |
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A little while back two scientists from Radboud University in the Netherlands, Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs, decided to prove that the Oyster card is not as safe as you may think it is. They managed to surmount all the security features of the card which uses NXP Mifare technology, then took a cloned card and used i... |
9 July 2008
07:43 GMT |
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A Southwark Crown Court has found Jagmeet Channa guilty of conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, and gave him a total of 16 years incarceration time, 90 months for the defraud and 9 years for money laundering, but the sentences will be served concurrently. It seems that he somehow got hold of his coworkers... |
8 July 2008
11:18 GMT |
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The Daily Mail, part of Northcliffe Media, has recently announced that one of the organization's laptops was stolen. It contained information on its employers, suppliers and collaborators, such as name, address, and bank info. The data loss is serious in that it is an identity theft risk, but it is at the same ... |
8 July 2008
03:09 GMT |
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The value of all the fake goods that are sold or auctioned online in the UK is of approximately £800 million per year. This is called e-fencing and it means that counterfeit or illegal goods are put out for auction on various specialized sites. These figures were brought to light by a study conducted by DLA Piper, a... |
5 July 2008
05:01 GMT |
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After the British ESRC (short for Economic and Social Research Council) stated a little while back that small and medium business enterprises need to improve data security, Zen Software has already come up with a solution. The company will market a software product called SecurityGateway for Exchange/SMTP Servers ma... |
4 July 2008
11:39 GMT |
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The system is called BDAS (short for Background Draw-a-Secret System) and was developed by Jeff Yan, computer science lecturer from Newcastle University, and Paul Dunphy, graduate student from the same university. The BDAS works on the DAS scheme created by American scientists at NYU, Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, just t... |
1 July 2008
09:22 GMT |
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The Economic and Social Research Council has issued a warning stating that small and medium sized companies (SME) are the most likely candidates to compromise UK economy by not securing confidential data. The need to tighten data security is stringent if we take into consideration that 99.3% of all UK businesses are... |
30 June 2008
11:09 GMT |
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