With all the recent hacks, should you change your password?

With all the data breaches in the news lately, it’s hard to know whether you’ve been affected. You could just change all your passwords after every reported breach – just in case. You could insist on tokens for everything. (Of course, that might raise additional concerns) You could stop using the internet entirely. Or you […]

‘LulzSec suspect’ arrested by New Scotland Yard

New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations. It is being widely speculated that the arrest is in connection with the high-profile attacks by the LulzSec hacking group, which has claimed […]

Lulzsec target SOCA website with DDoS attack

The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after it appeared to be a victim of an attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service provider. Soca.gov.uk had been unavailable for much of Monday afternoon, […]

UK Met Police hit by IT outage but plays down attack fears

The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating the cause of a “major network issue” that has prevented staff using some IT services for almost two weeks including aspects of the Police National Computer system.. A Met spokesman confirmed the problem was first identified on 9th June, but insisted no critical systems had been downed by the […]

Is it time to use Password Managers?

The endless list of usernames and passwords we have to remember certainly isn’t getting any smaller and I often impress myself with the amount of random usernames and passwords I can remember, however there’s always that ‘What if’, what if I forget them. Granted most products and services which require secure credentials offer a password […]

Want to keep up with the ITSec community? Listen to the podcasts

Given how fast paced the IT and Info Sec community is it is often difficult to keep up to date with current events as these are changing constantly minute by minute around the world. There was a time when if something occurred half way around the earth it would have little effect. Now however, with […]

Want to get in to ITSec? Get on Twitter

We’ve had a few emails recently from people asking ‘How to get in to the security industry’ and ‘How to learn more about security’ and overall just keep their finger on the pulse. Along with get the right qualifications, read the write books, browse the right security blogs (we link to most of them!) as […]

Citigroup breach exposed more accounts than first claimed

The security breach that hit the website of Citigroup exposed data for more than 360,000 accounts, the bank said on Wednesday, about 80 percent more than it previously reported. Citigroup publicly disclosed the compromise last week, but said it involved about 200,000 accounts. Wednesday’s revision came amid an inquiry by the Connecticut Attorney General’s office, […]

IT/InfoSec who to follow on Twitter

More to follow, message us if there’s one we’re missing, especially yours! https://twitter.com/#!/jessicambair https://twitter.com/#!/Steve_at_EnCase https://twitter.com/#!/irongeek_adc https://twitter.com/#!/McGrewSecurity https://twitter.com/#!/ChrisJohnRiley https://twitter.com/#!/rapid7 https://twitter.com/#!/HackerRun https://twitter.com/#!/matthewneely https://twitter.com/#!/hack3rcon https://twitter.com/#!/securityspeak https://twitter.com/#!/ErrataRob https://twitter.com/#!/hdmoore https://twitter.com/#!/SecurityHumor https://twitter.com/#!/SpireSec https://twitter.com/#!/indi303

Dell partners with UK based Evidence Talks

A PIECE of software developed by a small Milton Keynes IT company has been taken up by one of the biggest computer companies in the world. Evidence Talks, based in Crownhill, has developed forensic intelligence software called SPEKTOR which can access and collect digital evidence for law enforcement agencies. The software has been bought by […]