John E Dunn

SMS text spam plunges as ICO fine spooks PPI pests

The ICO's crackdown on a firm accused of sending huge amounts of payment protection insurance (PPI) SMS spam appears to have caused a marked drop in the number of unwanted messages being received by UK mobile users, figures from security firm Cloudmark show.

Novell's new Filr software offers secure alternative to Dropbox

Novell is preparing to release Filr, a new on-premise file sharing product for organisations that want some of the convenience of a Dropbox-like approach while keeping data management under internal control.

Trusteer launches 'Apex' zero-day protection software in Europe

Security firm Trusteer believes it has invented the first ever system that can reliably block attacks targeting vulnerabilities in a clutch of common applications such as Java, and Adobe’s Flash and PDF Reader.

Phil Zimmermann goes full circle as Silent Circle launches encrypted email

Security guru and privacy campaigner Phil Zimmermann could finally fulfil the commercial potential of his famous PGP encryption software of the 1990s with the news that his Silent Circle startup has added email encryption to its roster of products.

Hacker in court for DDoS attacks on Oxford and Cambridge Universities

The 21-year-old British hacker found guilty of a long string online crimes including distributing a keylogger Trojan disguised as a Call of Duty software patch, has pleaded guilty to launching DDoS attacks on the websites of Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

EU Security Agency slates ISPs over 300Gb/s Spamhaus DDoS attack

March’s huge DDoS attack on Spamhaus that left service providers struggling to contain a 300Gb/s DNS reflection surge was made possible by the industry's tardiness in implementing IETF recommendations on limiting forged traffic made more than a decade ago, EU security agency ENISA has argued.

MI5 warns UK universities of cyber-attack threat

British universities will be issued with overhauled security guidance after a warning by MI5 on the risk of foreign-sponsored cyber-attacks, it has been reported.

London, Bristol and Peterborough get £3 million 'future cities' funding

Three of the cities that lost out to Glasgow in the competition for £24 million smart cities funding in January are to be given money to develop the most interesting parts of the projects they proposed.

North Korea re-used old malware code in March cyberattack against South

The North Korean military was not only behind last month’s unprecedented cyber-assault on South Korean TV stations and banks, it left behind enough evidence of its involvement to make attributing blame an open and shut case, officials have alleged.

Shylock bank Trojan upgraded with new capabilities, says Symantec

The prodigious Shylock man-in-the-browser (MitB) banking Trojan is still being upgraded as part of a campaign to migrate from its traditional targets in UK financial services to foreign ones, Symantec has reported.