O&O AutoBackup (free in January 2012; $30 with a 30-day free trial starting in February 2012) is a generally easy-to-use backup program with one feature especially handy for frequent users of external drives. It will back up any data you choose, automatically, without user intervention, when you insert a removable drive you’ve defined as the repository for your backup. That’s a neat... (more...)
Google’s decision this week to share user data across its online services has caught the attention of eight members of the US House of Representatives, with the lawmakers asking whether the changes will compromise privacy. Read More →
The European Parliament’s website fell under a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS) on Thursday in what the organisation classified as retaliation for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site and an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. Read More →
Cloud security vendor Zscaler has launched a new free-to-use online service called Zulu that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analysing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses. Read More →
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to develop an application that can track the public’s postings to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, in order to aid how it predicts and reacts to criminal behaviour, including public disorder and terrorism. Read More →
An Israeli group has claimed responsibility for the defacement of several Iranian Government websites as the tit-for-tat digital war between hackers in the Middle East shows no sign of waning. Read More →
A security-related company that until late December employed the Russian developer who allegedly created the Kelihos botnet said today it was “extremely disappointed and angered” at the revelation. Read More →
IT professionals believe that assessing the potential harm caused by data breaches is more useful to mitigating the effects of such incidents than notifying affected individuals, according to a survey published on the day the European Union’s proposed a 24-hour deadline for data breach disclosures. Read More →
Two of the four people arrested in New Zealand on the Megaupload case have been released on bail, according to the Stuff website. Read More →
Sophos Endpoint Anti-Virus 10 is an internet security suite from the UK-based provider of enterprise-level malware protection. It’s sold to individual customers, but is principally aimed at small businesses. Read More →
