April, 2010:

• Cloud-based vulnerability service introduced by Webroot
• Warnings of 'rogue code' as claims made that thousands of websites are already infected
• Shavlik moves to protect and detect forgotten PCs in green initiative
• Details of a postal vote leaked on Twitter by parliamentary candidate
• Steve Jobs hits back at Adobe over claims that Apple is a closed system
• Symantec confirms acquisition of PGP, winner of SC Magazine's information security vendor of the year
• Session monitoring advanced with new solutions from e-DMZ Security
• Infosecurity Europe: Data integrity attacks described as a future cyber crime threat
• HP acquires Palm in a week when rumours about a takeover of a major security vendor persist
• Survey finds that only 36 per cent of UK businesses use data loss prevention
• Business Software Alliance agrees settlement with company for software infringement
• Infosecurity Europe: A new wave of security breaches is hitting the UK with most companies ill-prepared to deal with them
• Professional Monitor: in association with (ISC)2
• Infosecurity Europe: Cisco makes first steps into cloud-based security after ScanSafe acquisition
• Infosecurity Europe: Cloud products remain a concern, as users need to consider outsourced risk factors
• Encryption and key management combined in desktop HSM device from Thales
• Astaro previews new technology in WiFi, UTM and mail archiving
• SC Magazine Awards Europe 2010 - winners announced
• SC Think Tank: The problems of giving employees access to social media
• Can you ever be wholly leakproof from data loss?
• Vendors often over-emphasise malicious IT threats to help sell their products, but is this a case of crying wolf?
• SC Executive Network: Sir Ian Blair on the problems of the insider threat and cyber terrorism
• SC Magazine interview: Martyn Croft, chief information officer at the Salvation Army
• Consultant's view: Shifting the focus to people
• Being in a war zone can cause information security problems for the military
• Infosecurity Europe: ICO speaks on future of regulation three weeks after its £500,000 fines were introduced
• Infosecurity Europe: White Hat raises £100,000 for ChildLine
• Social media remains a workplace concern, as businesses fail to harness Web 2.0
• UK cyber security challenge launches to find the next generation of security experts
• Next generation firewall introduced by McAfee
• User account management tool launched by Stonewood
• Splunk accidentally exposes user passwords following debug code implementation
• Two-thirds of identity fraud victims blame the retailer, while 78 per cent report the incident to the police
• Apple iPad targeted with malicious email promising iTunes upgrade, as Adobe confirms that it will work with other devices for Flash development
• Cyber security centre launched by EADS
• Cloud Industry Forum launches draft Code of Practice
• Microsoft to patch Internet Explorer XSS filter in June after revelations at Black Hat
• Opportunities and challenges in social networking
• RSA introduces real-time identity verification service
• Compromised accounts sold by the million on fraud forum
• Disaster scenario access service introduced by Signify
• Vulnerability Management Specialist
• Data Loss Prevention Specialist
• Laptop and mobile phone of Conservative parliamentary candidate stolen
• Anti-virus vendors sympathise with McAfee over false positive problems, as warnings made of searches for a fix
• McAfee mistakenly detects legitimate Windows system files as malicious in false positive nightmare
• Head of Security Solutions, Standards and Assurance
• Information Security Forum expands membership to SMEs
• Attack Monitoring Specialist
• Application Security Analyst
• Proposals for the destruction of data will help with computer recycling
• Systems Security Engineer
• Veracode rolls out application testing service
• Further Facebook changes bring fresh criticism over user privacy as it closes the Lite version of its site
• Google gets a slapped wrist from collective privacy and information commissioners over Buzz failings
• Professionals wildly underestimate the cost of data loss
• Shavlik Technologies selected to support Microsoft configuration manager
• If the main political parties are not talking about cyber security, what are the rest saying?
• Google's 'Gaia' password system was infiltrated during January attacks
• Norwegian prime minister, stuck in New York, runs the country from the Apple iPad
• Security Scoreboard website elects CISO council with representatives from financial services and technology firms
• Cyber crime attacks increase as malware trends plateaued in the last 12 months
• Ipswitch launches new version of managed file transfer server
• Gwent Police accidentally emails a file containing the personal details of over 10,000 people
• Quantum cryptography takes a step forward as a continuous operation is successfully tested
• BobBear to retire at the end of April and close his money mule and phishing awareness site
• Equipment that contains data should have a facility to completely delete it with built-in privacy and security safeguards
• WatchGuard launches quarantine management server
• What are the main political parties really saying about cyber security?
• Leaders debate fails to cover technology issues, as social networking sites experience huge traffic that causes Facebook application to crash
• Israel bans imports of the Apple iPad, as NSA Lieutenant General claims it is 'wonderful'
• Trend Micro rolls out Titanium netbook protection, as it confirms support
• Facebook and YouTube dominate workplace traffic and bandwidth
• Buckfast installs CCTV in a rare chance for SC to make some jibes about 'Wreck the Hoose Juice'
• Panda Security introduces cloud-based internet protection solution
• Cloud-based technology baffles the public as more than half of European citizens are confused over where their online data is stored
• Apache Software Foundation confirms that it was attacked last week via employees clicking on an obfuscated weblink
• Apple delays the release of the iPad outside the US, as security concerns persist about the operating system and applications
• Facebook revamps safety centre after rejecting calls for a panic button
• UK internet users are safe surfers but fail to take data security seriously
• Check Point CEO claims that DLP solutions are not satisfactory and reflects on a year since the launch of software blades
• Major patch updates from Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle leave IT administrators with a lot to cover in April
• Check Point introduces new software blades for data loss prevention and unified event management
• SC Magazine introduces 'most influential 2010'
• Ministry of Defence reports more than 1,500 data loss incidents in the last five years
• Implementing ISO27001 in the real world
• Claim made that organisations need to balance protection of data and secrets and view information in a more holistic fashion
• Hewlett Packard completes acquisition of 3Com, as Google acquires British start-up Plink to enhance its Goggles service
• Court rules against employer reading an employee's personal email in what could prove to be a landmark case
• Talend brings together data integration, data quality and master data management (MDM) within a single solution
• Remote working and unauthorised application downloading are major concerns for IT managers in the next 12 months
• Users warned about large bills for downloading data, as major updates are due for tomorrow
• Network Solutions hole leads to some Wordpress blogs being hit by redirecting scripts that pointed visitors to malicious websites
• Concerns have been raised over email abilities and the lack of a method to remotely wipe stored data on the Apple iPad
• TalkTalk claims that it will seek a court order before surrendering customer details under the Digital Economy Act
• Oracle to join Adobe and Microsoft in patching tomorrow, as it prepares plans for MySQL advisory boards
• SC Magazine briefly gets its hands on the Apple iPad
• Looking for Tiger Woods' Nike advert could lead to users being cheated into visiting malicious sites
• Access to cloud services by standard passwords could cause a data security headache for businesses
• South Korea accounts for the sending of a third of the world's malware
• Adobe to address critical security issues in Adobe Reader and Acrobat next week
• Microsoft to release 11 bulletins with five critical patches for Windows on its next Patch Tuesday
• Federation Against Software Theft welcomes the Digital Economy Bill, as Cloud Industry Forum says that it is 'better than nothing'
• Mozilla removes orphaned root certificate authority bug
• Wikileaks.org cracks encryption of Reuters US military video which shows journalists being murdered
• Digital Economy Bill passes through 'wash-up' in just over two hours as it heads back to the House of Lords for Royal Assent
• German minister of consumer protection criticises Facebook's proposed third party sharing policy, as the site moves to clarify its plans
• Ventura moves to PCI compliance with LogRhythm solutions
• Digital Economy Bill expected to be made law tonight as yesterday's debate sees MPs call for a rewrite under a new government
• Response to the introduction of £500,000 fines by the Information Commissioner's Office is positive, however firms need to take action on network and employee security
• Rackspace introduces cloud server management application for the Apple iPad as spam is detected following its launch
• Google further revamps Buzz network to confirm 'followers' and website connections
• Law firms move into cloud-based security to protect networks
• LogLogic joins the Cloud Security Alliance
• Editor of SC to appear at special SIEM round table event in May
• Apple releases iPad as a video shows it being jailbroken within hours
• Election called for 6th May as technology-related bills look to be pushed through or left in the balance
• Information Commissioner introduces £500,000 fines for data breaches
• McAfee and Riverbed combine technologies to deliver virtual firewall with WAN optimisation solutions
• Splunk introduces version 4.1 to include real-time search, analysis and monitoring
• Administrators should not wait until after the Easter break to apply Microsoft's out-of-band patch for Internet Explorer
• Government details key points of its 'Cyber Crime Strategy', as it acknowledges that it is a large and growing problem
• Vietnamese users tied up in botnet that vendors claim is politically motivated
• Claims made that personal knowledge questions are no longer viable for email