Source: INSI, 9 August 2011
LONDON, 9 August - The International News Safety Institute is concerned by the number of attacks on journalists and members of the news media who are reporting on, and covering, the unrest that has swept across London and to other UK cities.
INSI has heard reports that photographers have been beaten up [...]
Source: Corporate Security Portal, 3 August 2011
According to a recent study conducted by Imperva, organisations in the UK have not changed their attitudes to the threat of insider breaches despite the lessons of Wikileaks. In its survey amongst IT security professionals 86% could not categorically state that they knew how many sensitive files their organisation [...]
Source: Info4Security, 1 August 2011
By Brian Sims
The BSIA [British Security Industry Association] has published a new guide to help businesses understand how security consultancies can play a vital role in helping them make the right choices when it comes to security products and services. Brian Sims reports.
The guide – entitled ‘Security Consultancies: Expert Advice on [...]
Source: BBC News, 6 July 2011
The News of the World phone hacking scandal has prompted an emergency debate in Parliament, but how were voicemails illicitly accessed and could it still happen?
When mobile phones were analogue, would-be snoopers could listen in using scanners. When mobile phones became digital, this option largely disappeared. But by then another [...]
Source: Homeland Security Newswire, 19 May 2011
To stem the rapidly growing number of pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean, more shipping companies are turning to armed guards; last year attacks off the Somali coast hit an all-time high with forty-nine ships hijacked along with 1,016 crew members; to combat the growing threat of piracy an [...]
