Malicious hackers are continually turning to Small Businesses for targets for a very simple reason, they're easier to attack. (more…)

In May 2012, the 12-month grace-period the Information Commissioner’s Office imposed before they would begin taking action against websites for non-compliance with the new EU Privacy Directive expired. (more…)

With its ever-increasing number of users, the Internet has become the primary communication mechanism for many individuals around the world. Governments who wish to maintain the ability to protect their citizens from harm need to develop evermore sophisticated methods of capturing and analysing data flowing through the ever-increasing numbers of social networks, online chat and Internet telephony services. (more…)

Monday's complete failure of Research in Motion's (RIMs) UK BlackBerry Internet Service servers has highlighted just how reliant we have become on services offered by third parties.

Because of the failure of a group of servers in a UK datacentre, all of RIMs customers across the whole EMEA region were unable to access any of their e-mail or do anything besides make phone calls and send text messages. This is worrying. (more…)

SSL (Secure Socket Layer), the technology that protects everything from your online banking activities, to all your purchases on Amazon or the iTunes store has come under fire recently thanks to the actions of a small group of individuals who claim to have broken into the servers that issue the certificates that websites use to prove to you that you are indeed visiting the real one and not one set up by an identity theif. (more…)