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Japan to launch Ultra HD signal next year
The Japanese government has announced that the country’s first Ultra HD broadcasts will be hitting television sets in July 2014. 4K TVs will offer TV companies and advertisers the chance to broadcast in more detail than is currently possible, and the BBC has already announced that it is filming a documentary using the new technology. [...]
Security hole found in Adobe’s Portable Document Format
Researchers at cyber security company Cybereye have found a vulnerability in the widely-used Adobe PDF file format. The exploit, which falls into the category of a “zero-day vulnerability” works through the attacker sending the target a compromised PDF file. When the target opens the file, it places two .dll files on the target’s computer. The [...]
Dropbox to enhance security with new data controls
Cloud storage provider Dropbox is enhancing data security controls within its flagship business product. Dropbox’s Teams product is aimed at SMEs, allowing users to share files and documents via the Dropbox servers. Unlike the consumer version of Dropbox this is a paid-for product: US$795 per year, and an extra $125 for every new team member. [...]
#InfosecEU: Twitter coverage
Following our highly successful European Information Security Summit held over the 6th – 7th February in London, here you can find a curated summary of the Twitter activity from the conference. You can view all of the articles about #InfosecEU on Business Technology by clicking this link. [View the story "The European Information Security [...]
Smashing Opportunities
As the media tell us that jobs are vanishing into thin air, Keil Hubert looks at how people’s adaptation will make everything work out in the end. Doomsday: Perhaps the Fiscal Apocalypse isn’t as close as some people suggest It’s dawn on a Saturday morning while I type this week’s column. I haven’t bothered looking [...]
Memset offers ‘helping hand’ to 2e2 customers
2e2 customers who were asked to choose between their data and their money have been offered a ‘helping hand’ by cloud provider Memset. The struggling firm had asked clients to pay £4,000 each to keep its data centres running, with the top 20 customers being asked to fork out £40,000. But Memset announced today that [...]
#InfosecEU: Christopher Soghoian on Apple vs Android
To wrap up the event presentations we were treated to a talk on the looming mobile security update crisis by US privacy researcher and activist, Christopher Soghoian. Soghoian gave real life examples of how wireless carriers – or mobile network providers – have had a stranglehold over communications and the control of mobile phone software. [...]
#InfosecEU: Social media risk management
Coming back from our coffee break we had Neira Jones, Head of Payment Security and Payment Acceptance with Barclaycard, introducing the morning’s social media stream. Jones kicked off with the social media side of incident response, in particular with online data breaches, and how an organisation can harness social media to take control of a [...]
#InfosecEU Employees: the real threat to data security?
As far as topics are concerned, its no great surprise that a summit covering information security has seen technological advances crop up. The vast popularity of smart phones, take up of the cloud and our love for shiny gadgets have all been mentioned. But these were joined by another, much older, threat to security – [...]
#InfoSecEU Day Two: IT Consumerisation
Today’s first speaker was Paul Wilson, IT Security, Risk and Compliance Manager of Yorkshire Water. He discussed the managing of IT at work in a consumer driven world, recognising that the changing infrastructure means more companies wish to adopt updated technologies such as the cloud as well as BYOD policies. Shaun Mundy, Group Director of [...]
