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Long viewed as a major vector for incoming threats such as viruses, malware and worms, organisations are also increasingly viewing laptops as a primary weakness in the fight against the theft, loss and misuse of information. As businesses try to get to grips with an ever growing list of regulations, could the legislators actually be doing them a favour? I fought the law, and the law won - wise words indeed from The Clash, and the logic is indisputable. However, in the world of business compliance, not everything is black and white: what does your business need to comply with, and how? Will the process be a hindrance or a business boon? A sharp hike in the volume and sophistication of phishing scams pushed British online banking fraud losses to record levels of £23 million in 2005 – almost double the previous year’s losses of £12 million, APACS, the U.K. payments association warned yesterday. Recent efforts by the financial services industry to reduce the extent of credit card fraud are starting to pay off. The Royal Bank of Scotland will offer its customers a handheld chip and PIN device to boost the security of its online banking service. Is innovation still happening in the information security space? This is very much an all-round set of tools for systems administrators to look after the entire network and manage all its different functions. As expected, this is a very complex set of tools that will require a lot of work in preparation to make the most of the vastness of its scope. Prior planning is recommended. Self-confessed software pirate Maksym Vysochanskyy, a Ukrainian national, has been sentenced in a San Jose, California, federal court to 35 months in prison, three years probation, and deportation to his native country of Ukraine. The uproar over foreign control over American interests was blamed for the break-up of one nearly successful IT security merger. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., which is based in Israel, and Maryland-based Sourcefire broke off a $225 million merger that came under intense scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). “Basically we agreed to withdraw applications based on a couple of things,” said Michelle Perry, chief marketing officer for Sourcefire. “First the complexities of the overall CFIUS process, the lengthy ongoing delays and the current climate for international acquisitions. IBM announced today that it is changing the way security can be built into devices and consumer products. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are susceptible to computer viruses and can be used to corrupt RFID databases, according to new research. Two years ago, the Jericho Forum set itself the task of persuading vendors to prepare for a ‘deperimeterised’ global security landscape. Jan Howells assesses its success so far A smart card used for the FedEx Kinko’s ExpressPay system is vulnerable to malicious attacks that could lead to a handsome payday for hackers, a malware-monitoring group said Tuesday. This appliance-based solution does just what its name suggests. A capability such as single sign-on must be robustly managed, and Imprivata provides for this with its dedicated appliance and associated agents, which reside on the user’s workstation. “We’ve been throwing money at security for 20 years and are no better off now than we were then,” says Eddie Bleasdale. He tells Ron Condon why he is so angry Commercial printer De La Rue Smurfit said this week that it is supplying an e-passport containing a secure 72KB chip to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. Thieves will always steal business ideas, but you can catch them red-handed, says John Patzakis Last May, USA Today reported on the Jacobs family getting implanted with computer chips containing their medical record information. Protecting data in the digital age is essential. Recent years have seen a decline in “recreational hacking” and a new wave of commercial hacking as illustrated in the example of the keystroke logger placed at the Sumitomo bank in an effort to steal £220m earlier this year and the various efforts at Denial of Service (DoS) blackmail.