London, 2nd December 2010 - Yet another social networking `feature' of Facebook - this time apparently allowing Facebook users to be tracked when visiting sites, regardless of whether they clicked “Like”. This feature hit headlines due to privacy violations the feature raises when visiting the NHS Choices Web site.

According to data security specialist Imperva, although the feature raises concerns about social networking sites' ability to track their users on third-party sites, what is really outrageous about the saga is the response of NHS mandarins to the problem. “The NHS page has included a script that is hosted on Facebook's server. When the browser is retrieving the script it delivers all Facebook related cookies from the browser up to Facebook. These are correlated to the Facebook identity of the individual accessing the NHS site.” said Amichai Shulman, Imperva's chief technology officer.

Two Thirds of Web Users are Still Vulnerable to Attacks that Exploit Flaw in Java

NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2010 – Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that more than a week after Oracle released a critical patch for Java, more than 68% percent of Internet users are still vulnerable to attacks that exploit these vulnerabilities.  This may be the biggest security hole on the Internet today, since 73 percent of Internet users are using Java.  The Trusteer Secure Browsing Service has already warned 14 million users to immediately apply the Java patch and in the mean time protects them against financial malware such as Zeus, that exploit the vulnerabilities in unpatched versions of Java.

 Responding to the government's newly-unveiled security strategy, the organisers of the InfoSecurity Europe event, held each spring in the UK, says that the UK's IT industry is ready to take on the challenges that the new decade of cybercrime will create. Infosecurity Europe's will be held at Earls Court, London 19-21 April 2011 www.infosec.co.uk

 Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe's Event Director, said that the current - and ongoing - convergence of technologies in the IT sector means that business life can be made significantly easier, with information available on a 24-7 basis, even when out and about, using a mobile Internet-enabled device.

18th October 2010 - Reports are coming in that an unencrypted USB stick - apparently containing details on the Sellafield nuclear site's operations - was found by a coach driver in a Cumbria hotel room.

And, says Credant Technologies, the endpoint data security specialist, it seems that the USB stick contained details of the nuclear firm's proposed workforce transfer from its Capenhurst operation in Cheshire to uranium specialist Urenco.one.

"This fact alone is manna from heaven to enemies of the UK, especially since the data on the USB stick suggested that International Atomic Energy technicians visiting the site were not sufficiently up to speed," said Sean Glynn, Credant's vice president and chief marketing officer.