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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 201 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: uk teen worlds youngest certified ethical hacker maybe comments Discuss  
Born to tinkerFor as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 200 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/10/certified_ethical_hacker/By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register10th February 2008For as long as he can remember, Shane Kelly has taken a keen interest in taking things apart. When he was 11 and his family took delivery of its first PC, he promptly pulled off the cover and disassembled it, much to the chagrin of his parents."They weren't too impressed at the time," Kelly, who is now 16, says. "But I put it back together. It worked."A few month read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 192 days ago
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23438618-details/Diplomatic+crisis+looms+as+French+bugs+'discovered+in+UK+Defence+Minister's+office'/article.dothisislondon.co.uk17.02.08A leading MP is to challenge the Government over claims that a Defence Minister was bugged by the French when he was responsible for the award of billions of pounds worth of contracts.Tory MP Patrick Mercer says senior security sources have told him that bugs were placed in the offices of Lord Drayson, the then-Defence Procuremen read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 186 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: how data breach cost uk companies comments Discuss  
Financial services suffer mostData breaches cost UK companies an average of £47 for every record lost.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 186 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/data_breach_real_cost/By John OatesThe Register25th February 2008Data breaches cost UK companies an average of 47 for every record lost.This means the average cost to a company which suffers a data breach is 1.4m. The Ponemon Institute isn't pulling these figures out of the ether- it talked to 21 UK companies about how much actual data breaches cost them.>From a total of 47 per record, the cost from lost business in the wake of a data disaster is 36 per cent or 17 read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 174 days ago
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 172 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: us uk friends cyberwar party comments Discuss  
I'll hose your network, if you hose mineBusiness and government leaders from the US, UK and three other countries will spend much of this week simulating and defending against a large-scale cyber attack in an exercise designed to strengthen coordinated responses to what many perceive as a growing threat.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 171 days ago
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/cyber_storm_ii_exercises/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register10th March 2008Business and government leaders from the US, UK and three other countries will spend much of this week simulating and defending against a large-scale cyber attack in an exercise designed to strengthen coordinated responses to what many perceive as a growing threat.Participants of Cyber Storm II, which also include about 40 private-sector companies, will enact a scenario in which "p read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 170 days ago
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Negative cash flowsFraud abroad has pushed up losses on UK credit and debit cards following a two year fall, according to the latest stats from UK payments association APACS.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 144 days ago
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/04/uk-numer-two-cyber-crime-chartBy Stewart MeagherThe Inquirer04 April 2008A REPORT PUBLISHED by the Internet Complaint Crime Centre (IC3) not only puts reported losses due to web-based crime in 2007 at an all-time high of $240 million, but also notes that criminal activity from within the UK is the second worst in the world.The IC3 said it received more than 206,000 complaints on its website in 2007 slightly down on the year before.Some 90,000 complaint read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 143 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: online spousal spying widespread uk comments Discuss  
Who did you text last night?One in five married UK couples admit to electronic snooping on their spouses, says a report from Oxford University. The report found that many married partners spy on their partner's emails and text messages. One in eight (13 per cent) confessed to checking on internet history files to monitor sites visited by their better halves.… read more »
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