Working through the weekend, the security experts reverse-engineered the program and discovered that it targeted a long list of banks and attempted to steal the account information of those institutions' customers.
IBM's European sales force has been labelled as the culprit for the one major negative in the company's latest financial performance. The company's announcement of its second quarter results on Monday mentioned its midrange series, the AS/400, just...
Peter Pedersen, CTO of Rank Group, said: "I believe the risks will increasingly force IT departments to implement tougher lockdown and device control. Ian Auger, IT director for ITN, said backing up employee usage policies with automated...
Almost 40 per cent of employees will be accessing company LANs remotely by 1999, according to an IDC report. Applications with Web interfaces for remote users are also on the priority list for companies with large remote workforces.
This is essential to ensure the correct levels of security, virus control and patch management are maintained for anything that connects remotely to the corporate network. Others agree that the benefits of the scheme become easier to quantify when...
More than two-thirds of UK IT bosses (68 per cent) think laptops, which are taken home or used remotely and then plugged back into the network, pose a security risk and yet only a quarter (26 per cent) are really doing anything about it.