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In the latest version of Secured eCollaboration, Cryptzone has launched technology which allows organisations to search SharePoint to find encrypted content.   Delivering secure content without impeding searchability and collaboration, the company said that this allows encrypted content on SharePoint can only be searched and discovered by authorised users.   Utilising sophisticated approaches to key management and process whitelisting, Cryptzone said that as well as respecting the principle of the separation of duties, this prevents...

A 24-year old Russian national has been named as the creator and controller of the SpyEye Trojan.   Aleksander Panin pleaded to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as the primary developer and distributor of SpyEye. Panin, who was also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud.   SpyEye has infected over 1.4 million computers in the United States, and abroad, and collects personal...

A third of employees describe the security culture of their workplace as moderate or lax.   The survey of 755 British workers by Absolute Software found that 63 per cent of employees had a formal procedure in place to follow when a device is lost, and 30 per cent said that there are no personal penalties for losing the phone.   Stephen Midgley, vice president of global marketing at Absolute Software, said: “The desire for...

Free mobile applications apparently leak personal data which is collected by intelligence agencies the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ, according to the Guardian.   Reports claim that both the NSA and GCHQ have developed capabilities to take advantage of "leaky" smartphone apps. The information, released by whistleblower Edward Snowden, is reportedly a high-priority effort for the intelligence agencies, as terrorists and other intelligence targets make substantial use of phones in planning and carrying out...

A version of the United Nations should be created for the internet to include a coalition of the leading companies in the cyber world. According to the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the internet should be turned from “a curse to a blessing”. He was reported in the Jerusalem Post as saying that “the biggest challenge we face with the cyber world is protecting the privacy and security of the public” at an Israeli cybertech...

If as much media and business attention was paid to awareness days as there were to data breaches, the problem may not be so prevalent. Speaking to IT Security Guru, Sarb Sembhi, an analyst and director of Incoming Thought, said that days like Data Privacy Day do not make the public more aware of breaches, as the public is only concerned momentarily when they think they are affected.. “It is a shame that there isn't...

BlackBerry has defended its use of the controversial Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual_EC_DRBG) saying that it does not consider the “backdoor” to be a vulnerability.   According to security blogger Jeffrey Carr, BlackBerry is the patent-holder for Dual_EC_DRBG, following its acquisition of Certicom in 2009, who licensed its Elliptic Curve cryptography technology to the NSA for $25 million in 2003.   Carr said in a blog that this was the year before the NSA convinced...

More than two-thirds of IT managers experienced a security breach or incident in the past 24 months. According to the study “Cyber Security Incident Response: Are we as prepared as we think?”, from the Ponemon Institute and Lancope which surveyed 674 IT security professionals, found that CEOs and members of management teams are in the dark about potential cyber attacks against their companies. Mike Potts, president and CEO of Lancope, said that headlines from 2013...

Neiman Marcus has admitted that its breach may have affected around 1.1 million credit cards.   According to a statement by Neiman Marcus president and CEO Karen Katz, while it can confirm that social security numbers and birth dates were not compromised and its Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman cards have not seen any fraudulent activity, approximately 1,100,000 customer payment cards could have been potentially visible to the malware.   She confirmed that malware was...

50 professors and researchers have signed an open letter to the US Government saying they “deplore” the practice of surveillance and urge that it be changed. The open letter criticised the reported actions of the US Government, specifically that it “conducts domestic and international surveillance on a massive scale, that it engages in deliberate and covert weakening of internet security standards, and that it pressures US technology companies to deploy backdoors and other data-collection features.”...