The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to regulate advertising for online investment companies. The SEC said it believes adverts used to entice potential clients are misleading - suggesting that simply by signing up...
A new initiative has been launched to put the high-tech expertise of the UK IT industry at the disposal of the police investigating cyber-crime. At an industry meeting of the year-old National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) a new scheme was inaugurated...
However, IT security firm Symantec attributes the high-instances of cyber attacks in this sector to attacks against non-profit activist groups - as diverse as animal rights organisations to lobby groups and software communities.
Time is running out for the cyber loafer - almost half of employers would fire staff for misuse of email and internet during working hours. According to a survey carried out on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD...
Part of the 1,724-page energy bill that President Bush signed last week calls for federal bureaucrats to create an "electric reliability organisation" that would draft mandatory standards - including cyber-security guidelines - for electric power...
The government has said it is engaged in tackling ongoing state-sponsored cyber attacks on UK national infrastructure. Lord West refused to confirm the nature or origin of these attacks but said cyber security is a "very dangerous area" and that...