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How sharing a little data can mean big troubleNews A simple Twitter message about your working day can reveal much more information about your company than you might have intended.
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UK ready and willing for biometric fingerprintingNews It seems that the British has more faith in biometric technology than governments and banks.
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Cyber criminals make big bucks with scarewareNews The online bad guys set to enjoy big money simply by what one professor calls a form of "entrapment marketing".
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Postal strike could cost online retailers millionsNews The Royal Mail postal strike could spell big trouble for smaller online retailers in the run up to Christmas, according to research.
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Euro security agency ENISA appoints new chiefNews The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENSIA) gets new leadership.
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Businesses block social networks over legal fearsNews Some UK companies have already been asked to provide electronic information from social networks for legal cases.
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Virgin Money cashes in on open source for charityNews Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence software looks to be the right fit for Virgin as it launches a new charitable website.
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Microsoft webmail targeted by spear phishing attacksNews Security firm says it is currently seeing 30,000 phishing attacks against business users using Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) every hour.
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Computers being held to ransom by fake antivirusNews A new threat demands that victims pay up for fake antivirus, or they don’t get their computer back.
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London cyber criminals face jail for Natwest fraudNews A Police Central e-Crime Unit operation leads to a £600,000 internet fraud gang facing jail.
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McAfee Mac software highlights new risksNews The increasing use of Macs in the business world has convinced McAfee that Apple-specific security software is now necessary.
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Botnet creators return with Bredolab trojanNews The authors of the Cutwail botnet are fighting back to get more market share.
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SAP and HP link up over business intelligenceNews Industry giants HP and SAP have announced a partnership focused on business intelligence and data warehousing.
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Adobe adds to patching burden with 29 flaw fixesNews Adobe has its own major security patch update for its PDF-reading software.
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Salford security tech allows better public sector commsNews Salford is one of the councils around the UK, which needs to follow a government mandate in order to access a new government network.
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Cyber criminals surfing the Google WaveNews High demand for Google Wave invites hasn't gone unnoticed by the criminal community.
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Snow Leopard bug is eating user dataNews Some angry Apple users find that the new Mac OS is deleting folders thanks to a bug in the system.
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Latest spam emails are 'almost foolproof'News Spammers are taking advantage of brand reputations to create spam that looks exactly like legitimate mail.
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Android patched to fix denial of service bugsNews Flaws in the open source Android mobile platform have been fixed.
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Businesses aren't trusted to handle customer dataNews Employees don't think that customers' identities are safe in the hands of the companies they work for.
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EC urges UK and Europe to do more about spamNews Making sure that legislation is enforced could make a big difference in the war against spam.
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Businesses can't ignore ‘spear phishing’ attacksNews Attacks this week against personal webmail accounts have raised the profile of phishing, which could also be used against businesses.
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Could Hotmail password theft be due to a trojan?News A researcher says there is evidence that not all of the Gmail and Hotmail account passwords were taken as a result of phishing.
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Monster set of patches from MicrosoftNews Microsoft has a particularly big update in store next week, while Adobe will release its second round of patches for the year.
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