London 1/08/2011 The real cost of the SecurID data breach at RSA Security earlier this year has been confirmed as costing the firm around $66 million in direct and attributable costs.
But, says SecurEnvoy, the tokenless authentication specialist, the reality is that the data breach has probably cost users of SecurID even more when it comes to time and resources spent ordering and reissuing new hardware tokens for business users.
London 08/06/2011 The news that RSA, the security division of EMC, has acknowledged that information stolen from its network was used to carry out a cyber attack against Lockheed Martin and is to replace all of the 40 million SecurID hardware tokens in existence is a big setback for the IT security industry said Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software.
Cumbria's deputy chief constable Stuart Hyde, has warned people of the need to keep computer security strong after research revealed a culture of hacking among students.
He was speaking after research by the country’s police chiefs claimed nearly one in four college and university students surveyed had hacked into computer systems. The survey was carried out among 1,000 college and university students across five universities in London and three in northern England.
Two prosecutions in as many days have seen jail terms imposed for the selling of unlicensed medicines.
On 8 September a man from Southall was jailed at Isleworth Crown Court on eight counts of possession and supply of significant quantities of unauthorised and unlicensed medication.
Investigators from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) raided a property belonging to Gurinder Bharaj in Ealing, where more than 100,000 individual doses of unlicensed erectile dysfunction medicines worth more than £30,000 were uncovered and seized. A smaller quantity of prescription medication was also seized.
Following an initial hearing Mr Bharaj pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to 20 months imprisonment with immediate effect (concurrent to all counts). He was also ordered to pay a £75 victim surcharge.
A leading academic known for his investigative work into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster has been named as a keynote speaker at this year's British Society of Criminology (BSC) Conference.
Professor Phil Scraton, criminologist and author from Queen's University Belfast, will be a plenary speaker at the UK's most prestigious criminology conference, which this year is being held at Sheffield Hallam University (July 4 - 7).
The conference, titled 'Forging Social Justice: Local Challenges, Global Complexities', is expected to attract hundreds of practitioners, policy makers, academics and students from the criminology community across the world.
