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It’s no use having security strategies if your staff don’t understand them – or regularly ignore them. So David Bicknell finds out how best to communicate those policies, and how to keep them bang up to date ICSTIS, the UK's premium rate services regulator, will cut off any such services found to be operating without its permission. After the clampdown unlicensed dialler service ICSTIS finds, either through public complaints or its own in-house monitoring, will be shut down immediately under the regulator's emergency powers. Student finds home sansacked after offering fake airplane boarding passes. Smart mobile technology is rapidly gaining in popularity – and hackers and crackers are among its biggest fans! Very few consumers know about the vulnerabilities of 3G technology, and only now is the industry waking up to the potential security nightmare. Traditionally, one of the most important assets of any successful company is its workforce. Competitive edge comes from employing hard-working, law-abiding motivated individuals with a strong company loyalty. Even for the odd employee, with a grudge against the company, the combination of laws and contracts in the past acted as sufficient deterrent to any wrong-doing. Like a moth emerging from its cocoon, the original mobile phone worm Cabir has evolved from proof-of-concept program to an altogether more harmful and fast-spreading variant in just six months. The most recent step is the posting of the original source code on the internet by the virus authoring group 29a, which could lead to a host of other harmful versions being developed and unleashed. Smart mobile technology is rapidly gaining in popularity – and hackers and crackers are among its biggest fans! Very few consumers know about the vulnerabilities of 3G technology, and only now is the industry waking up to the potential security nightmare. Marcia Savage sees a storm rolling in as phishing statistics jump alarmingly and the e-commerce industry finds itself facing a collapse in public confidence SC Magazine has a new Editorial Advisory Board. Illena Armstrong polled the members for their views on the trends facing IT security, taking in topics ranging from vendor consolidation to the impact of the Patriot Act Microsoft gives patch junkies another fix as it rolls out its pre-Christmas December update. Sarah Merrion finds that patch management requires a global, organized effort that is hardly child’s play Core Impact is different in that while it performs vulnerability assessment, it is primarily a penetration testing tool. It behaves like a hacker, performing vulnerability and port scans then attempting to penetrate the target using the vulnerabilities it finds. There are real benefits to this approach. Scientists have been studying the spread of biological disease for over a hundred years. The aim is to predict and thus avoid damaging epidemics, thus the name “epidemiology.” In recent years, some researchers have started applying the tools of epidemiology to help understand another form of common disease: computer viruses and worms. Removable media devices are here to stay. Their ease of use and low cost have made them ubiquitous in the work environment – but at what price? In this article we look at the pro’s and con’s of removable media, and the steps IT managers can take to mitigate the security risks associated with them. With the number of cyber attacks escalating, dealing with digital evidence is becoming a pressing issue. Simon Janes gives you a helping hand, guiding you right through from the crime scene to the court room

IM Inspect version 5 is billed as an IM and P2P usage monitor capable of sniffing out potentially dangerous traffic on corporate networks. Designed to expose hidden IM and P2P traffic, it provides network managers with statistics detailing their use.

A new security web site will be asking the security community to send it details of attacks on network infrastructure in order to the security community overcome new attacks. Recovering your laptop after it has been stolen is not as quite imposible as it might seem, as Louise Murray finds out People have different perceptions of a chief security officer role, but Illena Armstrong finds that it is a vital one for business today. If security is seen to enhance business goals Illena Armstrong finds that selling it to the boardroom becomes a much easier task.