London, 21 April, 2010 - Business use of technology is evolving faster now than at any point in the last decade. Internet use has moved way beyond email and websites and into the realms of social networks and externally-hosted software services accessed across the Internet (often referred to as cloud computing).

 These changes have increased the vulnerability of UK companies and public sector organisations to new cyber attacks. Hacking and denial of service attacks have doubled in the last two years. As a result, security remains high on management’s list of priorities.

These are among the preliminary findings of the 2010 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) commissioned by Infosecurity Europe and written by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The full results of the survey including details of the number and cost of security breaches in the UK, will be revealed at Infosecurity Europe in London on 28 April.

London, UK 20th April 2010 - A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 420 organisations has found that a quarter (28%) have been subject to a data integrity attack.  Of those that think that data integrity attacks could be a problem 14% are not sure they would be able to detect an attack and half of organisations think that attacks could be a problem but have not detected any.  Worryingly only 3% thought that data integrity attacks are not a problem with 6% acknowledging that data integrity attacks are a problem and that they were adequately protected.  Infosecurity Europe, takes place at Earls Court, London, from 27th–29th April 2010 www.infosec.co.uk and does not come a moment too soon for 91% of our sample.

According to Bob Tarzey, Analyst for Quocirca and keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe, “The lack of confidence around the integrity of critical business data is not surprising, this has long been a problem and is likely to get worse as volumes of data continue to grow, unless action is taken.

20 April 2010: The Information Security Forum (ISF) is extending its world-renowned membership programme to help SMEs address an increasing number of IT security threats, including the fight against cybercrime, protecting customer data and the growth of social networking.

This new ISF Membership, for companies with turnover of less than £100m, recognises that SMEs face many of the same challenges and compliance requirements as large enterprises, but without the same in-house resources, skills or budgets. By joining the ISF, SMEs can reduce information risk by gaining access to world leading research, tools and methodologies; and by sharing knowledge and experience with security professionals from some 300 of the world’s largest corporations and public sector organisations.

LONDON, 16th April, 2010 - As predicted last week by Trusteer (http://bit.ly/bDVf7W), a new variant of the Zbot/Zeus trojan has now arrived, embedded in an Adobe PDF file. 

And, says Mickey Boodaei, CEO with the browser security and fraud prevention specialist, this week's warning by fellow security vendor Websense shows how quickly cybercriminals are exploiting these types of security issues. 

"Just as a virus and malware prevention industry had to move swiftly to counter the so-called zero-day security threats as they started arriving around five years ago, so the industry must ratchet up its protection strategy once again to meet this expanded threat," he said.