John E Dunn

LulzSec turncoat 'Sabu' dodges sentencing for second time

Former LulzSec hacktivist turned supergrass ‘Sabu’ has dodged sentencing for a second time, presumably as a reward for his past or continued cooperation with the US Government.

File-sharing, video and social apps are tiny threat, Palo Alto finds

Social networking, file sharing and video applications are not the major security risk many admins believe them to be despite living up to their reputation as major bandwidth hogs, firewall firm Palo Alto has discovered.

Firms struggling to secure trust infrastructure, finds Ponemon report

Large organisations are struggling to manage trust assets such as encryption keys and digital certificates in a muddle that could open many to the risk of cyberattack, a Ponemon survey for security management firm Venafi has concluded.

NetIQ 'bring your own identity' appliance beats identity bloat

NetIQ has announced a new virtual appliance that enables ‘bring your own identity’ website access via not only Facebook, Google and Twitter but any SAML2 or OpenID Connect compatible source.

Oxford University blocks Google Docs as phishing attacks soar

Oxford University has taken the radical step of temporarily blocking access to Google Docs after a dramatic increase in phishing attacks trying to harvest academic email credentials using bogus forms hosted on the service.

Chinese 'PLA 61398' army unit hacking US firms, Mandiant alleges

If the Chinese state is really hacking the world as notables such as Google's Eric Schmidt have suggested, which organisations is it using to do the dirty work?

Python trademark battle stirs backlash as Foundation appeals for help

An Internet storm has broken out after an obscure UK-based cloud hosting firm apparently gained the upper hand in a battle with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) over which organisation should have rights to use the programming language’s famous name.

ICO dishes £150,000 fine after nursing body loses unencrypted DVDs

The ICO has handed out an unusually severe £150,000 fine to the Nursing and Midwifery Council for losing unencrypted DVDs full of sensitive data that were being transported to a misconduct hearing.

Targeted APT attacks experienced by one in five security professionals

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) could be more of a mainstream security problem than previously thought after a survey of high-level security professionals found that an alarming one in five worked for a firm that had experienced such an attack.

Adobe Reader XI users turn on 'protected view' to defend zero-day attack

The serious zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat now being exploited in online attacks can be defended against in up-to-date versions of the program by enabling ‘protected view’, Adobe has said.