Companies and bloggers that run their own WordPress installations should make sure that they have not downloaded any of three popular plugins that were, for about 24 hours, playing host to <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/topic/43400/malware-cybercrime">malicious code</a>, WordPress creator Auttomatic warned.
Robert Lemos | 25 Jun | Read more
Hotel firm <a href="http://www.travelodge.co.uk/">Travelodge</a> has revealed some of its customer email addresses have been accessed following an attack.
Carrie-Ann Skinner | 24 Jun | Read more
Lulz Security, the hacker group that earlier attacked websites of the Central Intelligence Agency and Sony, released Wednesday information that it claimed was hacked from the computers of an Arizona law enforcement agency.
John Ribeiro | 24 Jun | Read more
As Distribute.IT's server compromise and subsequent acquisition by Netregistry Group this week has shown, companies who are the subject of a hack attack can be taken out of business permanently. The scale of the Distribute.IT disaster raises issues both for customers who use hosting providers to store sensitive business information and for the providers themselves.
Hamish Barwick | 24 Jun | Read more
Schools must deal with cybersecurity issues that affect students both during school and outside school hours, a Federal Government report recommends.
Lisa Banks | 24 Jun | Read more
More than a powerful movie about war, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277434/">We Were Soldiers</a> reveals a key way to improve a security career while improving the organization.
Michael Santarcangelo | 24 Jun | Read more
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.
John Ribeiro | 23 Jun | Read more
Incident-response forensics company Mandiant has received strategic investments from two separate investment firms with the aim of expanding the company's field staff that responds to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> breaches as well as investing more in research and development.
Tim Greene | 24 Jun | Read more
The rush toward virtualisation of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices. That's leaving huge gaps, a sense of chaos and questions about where security products and services should be applied in the world of multi-vendor virtual-machine (VM) hypervisors.
Ellen Messmer | 24 Jun | Read more
The Gillard Government's decision to set up legislative framework to allow Australia to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty was a good step forward but privacy and civil liberty concerns need to be taken into account, according to a security expert
Hamish Barwick | 23 Jun | Read more
Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and severe, and the vast majority of businesses have suffered at least one <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032811-mcafee-underground.html">data breach</a> in the past year, a Ponemon Institute survey says.
Tim Greene | 22 Jun | Read more
Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
Information security company Bridge Point Communications will take over the assets and staff of data centre specialist, Server Central, on 30 June once due diligence is completed.
Hamish Barwick | 21 Jun | Read more
For the 18th year in a row, Computerworld conducted a survey to identify the 100 best places to work for IT professionals. We started accepting nominations in August 2010.
Computerworld (US) staff | 21 Jun | Read more
<strong>What's most important about your job?</strong>
Computerworld (US) staff | 21 Jun | Read more
Why is it such a struggle to work in security? Show me a security professional who hasn’t felt misunderstood and undervalued. Who hasn’t complained that they are treated like a pariah? What are we missing? Is it our fault or is the world not ready for us yet? Does a major security breach have to happen before the penny drops?