Asylum seekers enter UK with Tony Blair’s car
As a former Prime Minister, Tony Blair has 24 hour security, which is probably why the police ordered him a new seven series BMW with all the security measures costing £100,000.
However the car had been placed into a container and driven over from Germany on the back of a lorry. Unfortunately at some stage, [...]
Problems with Gmail
It seems that gmail users should be on the look out for a new threat. Gmail has a weakness which allows someone to get into your account via a back door.
What happens is the user will somehow get lured to a website, while the gmail page is open, once on there it will write [...]
UK should use US laws for data protection
It is being proposed that any security breach that affects data held by government agencies and businesses. Should follow the line that is being used in states like California where the law on data protection is taken very seriously indeed.
It’s not fines that make businesses take data security seriously, but the fact that for every [...]
Businesses not meeting security requirements
In a report published by security firm Verisign, they claim that over half of all businesses are not sticking to the security requirements that of the data security standards that have been established by the payment card industry.
The main reason for this is that companies are failing to carry out a regular audit of the [...]
Phone companies to store call data
A new EU directive comes into force in October concerning the retaining and retrieving phone call data. The directive is in place to ensure that there is a unified storage of this type of data across the member states.
At the moment telecom companies store this data which includes date, time, duration and location, for twelve [...]
Black Market in ID details
The security business Symantec has released their latest internet threat report, which reveals a staggering 53 per cent rise in phishing emails to 2.3 billion for the first six months of 2007.
But what is of more concern is the online selling of personal details, and ready made phishing kits all of which enable a criminal [...]
Airport security under threat
Since the hand luggage problems started, we all know that if you want to take any liquid, such as water, aftershave, toothpaste and liquid soap onto the plane with you, there is a requirement to get the goods if bought at the airport to be sealed in clear plastic bag at the store.
However there is [...]
Security issues with MSN Messenger
Microsoft is urging all Windows Live and MSN Messenger users to upgrade to the newest version as soon as possible. People using MSN Messenger versions 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5 and/or Windows Live Messenger 8.0 will be prompted to the upgrade process to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 when they try to log onto the service.
It appears [...]
Skype worm expands with a click
Online security teams are working to get malicious websites closed down by targeting the domain registries to find out who the domain owners are. This is a marked attempt to get rid of the threat that has been plaguing the VIOP system including Skype windows users.
The virus is spread by specially devised instant messages that [...]
Researcher collects emails and passwords
This could be everyone’s nightmare, a security researcher has managed to collate thousands of email addresses and passwords that are either from or related to foreign embassies, of which include Russia and India.
This has been done by him being able to utilise the onion router, which is used to disguise embassy traffic etc, the researcher [...]
Online crime in the UK soars
It is a sign of the times that more than three million online crimes were committed in 2006. But it has become clear that the figures for financially related crime hit 200,000 cases, which is more than twice the amount of robberies that were carried in person for the same period.
Figures according to 1871 Ltd, [...]
US Air Force in Security error
It appears that despite what we understand about the chain of command in the US military, that is that the Commander in Chief is the only person who can authorise the arming and use of nuclear weapons. This appears to be not true or that the US Air Force has made a terrible blunder.
Earlier in [...]
Your face is your password
NEC computers launch a new way of gaining access to your computer, your face. On the new LaVie C and the LaVie L range of laptops will be a new face recognition software, which will only let the registered image log onto the computer.
The software is called NeoFace and works on the same principle as [...]
UK Business worried about Wi Fi security
Astonishingly there are four out of ten businesses in the UK who have not installed a company wide Wi Fi system and the main reasons are security and speed.
It is not that they fear that their network will be threatened it is just that they do not understand the implications of using Wi Fi and [...]