Ian Taylor
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Blogs by this Author
Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 22/04/2009
Almost two million PCs globally, including machines inside UK and US government departments, have been taken over by malicious hackers.
Security experts Finjan traced the giant network of remotely...
Rally Against Cyber Crime
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 22/04/2009
Security professionals are being called on to band together to fight the highly organised cyber criminals of the world.
The call was made at a San Francisco conference organised by security firm R...
Microsoft bounty offered to find WORM creator
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 16/02/2009
A reward of $250,000 (£172,000) has been offered by Microsoft to find who is behind the Downadup/Conficker virus.
Since it started circulating in October 2008 the Conficker worm has managed ...
Enterprise Security Webinars
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 16/02/2009
We have organised a number of Events and Webinars that you will be able to register for soon.These include the following Webinars;Ruckus Wireless Webinar - 10.30am 26th February 2009Net-Ctrl and Ruc...
Guardian Edge Awarded EAL4 + Certification
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 9/02/2009
The Guardian Edge Endpoint solution has been awarded the status of EAL4+. The GuardianEdge Platform provides transparent encryption services for hard disks and removable storage devices on computers...
PCI DSS Malware Breach - may be largest ever!
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 6/02/2009
Malware Breach - may be largest ever!
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., a company that processes payroll and credit card payments for more than 250,000 businesses in the U.S. and Canada. Customers i...
Businesses counting cost of snow - Secure Remote Access
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 2/02/2009
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has reported that today’s heavy snowfall could cost UK businesses £1bn and that at least 20% (6.4 million people) did not make it to work.For the...
"Pod Slurping" Is it happening on your network?
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 13/11/2008
Hands up, who's heard of "Pod slurping"?
Pod slurping is the act of using a portable data storage device such as an iPod digital audio player to illicitly download large quantities of confidential ...
Symantec Norton buys Messagelabs
- By Ian Taylor
- Published 10/10/2008
Norton Antivirus firm buys rival
US anti-virus software firm Symantec has agreed to buy web security firm Messagelabs for $695m (£401.2m).And this at a time wh...



