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No visible management of data security at any level, concludes Poynter review. The UK'S Home Secretary was "perverse and inhuman" in her rejection of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon's plea that his mental health made him unsuitable for detention in the US, the High Court was told on Friday. The UK Government must do more to protect individual internet users from cybercrime, according to a House of Lords report. Peer to peer technology (P2P) has been described as the “new national security risk” by a retired general at a recent Government Reform Committee hearing. Campaigners have slammed the security measures proposed by the government to protect the online medical records of millions of Britons. Gartner took a jab at TippingPoint and CanSecWest officials this week, criticising them for a recent hacking contest that revealed a then-unpatched flaw in QuickTime. Security vendor PC Tools has slammed security vendors that continue to release ‘top’ threat list reports claiming they are mostly volume based rankings which are no longer adequate indicators. The Russian government has been cleared of any direct involvement in cyber attacks on Georgia. The hacker who exposed portions of GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email got her password by claiming to have 'forgotten' it. A popular but controversial website that asks fans of "American Idol" to vote for the least talented contestant each week continues to be slammed by a distributed denial-of-service attack, the site's manager told SCMagazine.com. The FBI has been slammed in a court ruling after attempting to get Amazon to hand over details on its customers and their reading habits. IT security vendors are acquiring companies that make point products. But what you really need are integrated security solutions. Here’s how to choose your suppliers wisely. By all measures, we live in an age of consolidation.
Google's gmodules.com, which hosts the Google Gadget feature, is susceptible to exploitation by phishers, an internet security researcher has warned. Microsoft has announced plans to give its customers greater control over the search information it stores on their online behaviour. The CEO of PGP Corporation has criticised the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas for directing his attack at the chief executives of UK organisations. The number of companies, government departments and public bodies that have breached data protection rules is "horrifying", a new report says. A DNA and personal information database will be shared between all the police forces in Europe under new plans agreed by EU governments yesterday. If there is one certainty in the security business, it is that security professionals and hackers are in a constant battle to protect and exploit vulnerabilities. Database giant Oracle today released 101 fixes, marking its largest quarterly critical patch update (CPU) in more than a year.
With Oracle set to release the year's final vulnerability fix on Tuesday, the database vendor now is making it easier for security professionals to understand the extent of the flaws being corrected.