John E Dunn
John is one of the co-founders of Techworld, following a spell working for Tornado Insider, the European magazine for tech start-ups. He started in IT journalism as technical editor of Personal Computer Magazine, before progressing to become editor of Network World (formerly LAN Magazine) and Network Week before helping to set up Techworld Insider. He has also freelanced for a number of technical publications in the technology, science and business fields.
Four members of the infamous and largely British LulzSec hacking group that carried a string of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2011 have been handed relatively lenient prison terms of up to 32 months by the judge at Southwark Crown Court. read more »
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 is better at blocking malware downloads than rivals Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera thanks to superior URL and application reputation technology, a new test by NSS Labs has found. read more »
McAfee has announced LiveSafe, a premium software and security service it believes can shore up the failing edifice of antivirus protection using a mixture of encryption, cloud storage, password management, authentication and malware defence for PCs, Macs, tablets and smartphones. read more »
Many organisations exaggerate the difficulties of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 by over-estimating the importance of little-used applications, a survey from consultancy Centrix Software has suggested. read more »
Internet criminals have opened a new front in Latin America and the Caribbean and seem to have founded booming businesses thanks to low levels of cybercrime protection and awareness, a rare but timely analysis of the region by Trend Micro has found. read more »
Another independent security firm has been swallowed by the expanding McAfee empire with the news that Intel’s security play has agreed to pay $389 million (£250 million) in cash for small but innovative Finnish firm Stonesoft. read more »
One of the US’s critical military and espionage contractors QinetiQ North America (QNA) was successfully pillaged for huge amounts of top-secret know-how by the infamous Chinese ‘Comment Crew’ or PLA 61398 hacking group in a campaign stretching over years, Bloomberg has reported. read more »
The NHS’s Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) has completed a major migration project that saw it move from an Intrusion Prevention System to a new security design based around ForeScout’s CounterACT network access control. read more »
Security researchers have discovered a new Apache web server backdoor that is so stealthy it leaves almost no trace of its redirection behaviour on the hard drive or in server log files. read more »
Infosecurity education body (ISC)2 is collaborating with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) to launch a new certification the pair hope will offer cloud security professionals an important benchmark for competence in the field. read more »
Imperva used this week’s Infosecurity Show in London to announce what it believes is a key innovation for its line of web application firewalls – crowd-sourced threat data. read more »
State-of-the-art cyberweapons are now powerful enough to severely disrupt nations and the organisations responsible for their critical infrastructure, Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky has warned in a speech to a select audience of UK police, politicians and CSOs. read more »
Industrial espionage by Chinese “state-affiliated actorsâ€� was responsible for one in five data breaches reported to Verizon by customers and through a range of global police forces, the company’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has found. read more »
The ICO's crackdown on a firm accused of sending huge amounts of payment protection insurance (PPI) SMS spam appears to have caused a marked drop in the number of unwanted messages being received by UK mobile users, figures from security firm Cloudmark show. read more »
The prodigious Shylock man-in-the-browser (MitB) banking Trojan is still being upgraded as part of a campaign to migrate from its traditional targets in UK financial services to foreign ones, Symantec has reported. read more »
The UK Government is to site its promised Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building at Oxford University’s Martin School as part of a programme to boost global standards of cyber-defence. read more »
The software industry’s inability to reduce the number of security flaws in its code is fuelling an age of the ‘everyday hacker’, criminals who can exploit vulnerabilities with a minimum of technical skills, Security testing firm Vercode’s latest State of Software Security (SoSS) report has suggested. read more »
Eight members of a London-based phishing gang that went on a ‘cheeseburgers and gold’ spending binge after robbing a British expat of her £1 million ($1.5 million) life savings have been found guilty of the crime at Southwark Crown Court. read more »
The Government has been criticised for its vague response to some of the questions posed by January's Defence Select Committee's report on cyber-security, including wildly mis-stating the amount of funding being channelled to the DSTL Cyber and Influence Centre. read more »
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude will today announce the Government’s futuristic-sounding ‘Fusion Cell’, a 12-15 person group of elite security experts who will sit in front of screens at a secret location monitoring cyber-attacks against the UK and its businesses in real time. read more »
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