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Fourteen U.S. privacy groups have written to Eric Schmidt arguing that Google is breaking Californian law by not including a link to its privacy policy on its homepage. Before TJX revealed its servers had been breached by hackers, the retail giant collected and stored unnecessary and excessive amounts of personal information for too long and relied on outdated encryption technology to defend the data, according to a report released today by Canadian privacy officials. Any IT chief worth their salt knows how to combat data theft, so why is it still so common, asks Ian Schenkel. A Russian bank chief, who coordinated an international identity theft operation, has been jailed for six years. Symantec’s chairman and CEO John W. Thompson will retire as CEO at the end of the fiscal year.
Patching is dead and costly, according to John Stewart, chief security officer at Cisco Systems, who presented a keynote address at the AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast, today. The RSA Conference continues to strengthen its hold as the industry's most important gathering for IT security pros. VeriSign today announced a major management shake-up, capped by the resignation of Stratton D. Sclavos, the company's former chairman, president and CEO. Over half of internet service providers believe that new threats could emerge with the deployment of the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), according to the latest annual worldwide Infrastructure Security Report from Arbor Networks. Symantec has announced plans to acquire MessageLabs for nearly US$700m in cash. Thousands of chief executives in the United States were targeted Monday by a new round of phishing emails that claim to contain a subpoena ordering recipients to testify in court. The chief executive of Mozilla is livid over the way in which Apple is trying to gain traction for its Safari for Windows browser. There's a lot of new research that will be revealed at this year's gathering of security pros, says RSA chief security strategist Tim Mather. Security vendors highlight growing threat of internet-based malware. Security giant expands software-as-a-service platform. The anonymity and universal access of cyberspace makes cybercrime attractive and easy. The amount of malware being punted around the internet is growing at an exponential rate, and traditional locally-based protection applications will soon buckle under the strain, web security firm F-Secure has warned. A web-hosting firm that apparently sent out more than 75 percent of worldwide spam has been knocked offline. Internet service providers (ISPs) are facing more security threats, while attacks are becoming larger and more sophisticated. A worm, exploiting the emergency Microsoft patch, turns infected computers into bots that can launch DDoS attacks.