January 2009


This was a winner in the e-Government National Awards 2008 . Awards category 5) e-Government excellence: Shared Services (Proven shared services which have delivered effective services and efficiency gains).

AVG: up to 300,000 infected sites appear per day The number of websites hosting malicious code is on the increase, says AVG Technologies.

HACKERS have stolen the personal details of millions of job hunters using one of the world's most-used job search sites in one of the biggest cases of data theft in Britain.

Website security software company Websense has acquired Defensio , a comment spam blocker used by blogs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Defensio competes with Aksimet, the spam blocker that comes with Wordpress. One of Defensio's features is that it can sort blocked comments by spamminess and also offers an API for use on Websites other than blogs. Websense will incorporate …

Users urged to change passwords immediately Personal details belonging to as many as 4.5 million job seekers have been stolen after hackers targeted recruitment site Monster.co.uk.

Officials deny reports that the UAE Federal National Council website was successfully targeted by hackers

Users urged to change password immediately Personal details belonging to as many as 4.5 million job seekers have been stolen after hackers targeted recruitment site Monster.co.uk.

DUBAI - ‘A virus has been detected’ is the window that pops up if the anti-virus programme on your computer detects penetration and then deletes the virus on command. But chances are you’ve still been hacked.

A weakness in the internet's digital certificate infrastructure allows attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all commonly used web browsers.

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