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Ireland to promote infosec expertise at RSA 2013 event News
21.02.2013 Ireland’s information security capability will be on show at the RSA 2013 Conference again this year, with seven companies hoping to promote their own wares and make the case... -
Trilogy Technologies listed among world’s top managed service providers News
21.02.2013 Dublin-based Trilogy Technologies has been listed in the Nine Lives MSPmentor 501, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top managed service providers. -
Apple attacked by same hackers who struck Facebook – reports News
20.02.2013 Apple has confirmed that a small number of its employees’ computers were attacked as a result of a vulnerability in the Java browser plug-in, but said that there was no evidence... -
Mandiant produces evidence of China’s secret cyber army at work News
19.02.2013 Security player Mandiant has produced a report that purports to show China’s secret cyber armies being built up. It says it has been tracking a single organisation called APT1,... -
Data protection awareness up as firms seek to avoid fines News
18.02.2013 Awareness of data protection requirements is increasing in Ireland, with 80pc of a survey group saying they now have a named person responsible for this area in their... -
Facebook confirms hit by cyber attack, no evidence user data compromised News
16.02.2013 Social networking giant Facebook has confirmed that it has been the victim of an attack by hackers. It says several of its engineers’ computers were hacked using a zero-day Java...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Mobility, Mobile, IT Management, Internet, Digital Media, Data Management, Data Centre -
Communications industry’s credit union ESCCU deploys e-banking News
15.02.2013 E-Services and Communications Credit Union, the credit union for Ireland’s communications industry for more than 50 years and which has €170m under management, has deployed a... -
Closer ties between IT and C-level leads to better performers: survey News
15.02.2013 Companies where IT collaborates closely with senior business leaders are four times more likely to be successful than peer organisations where those relationships are broken, a... -
The five minute CIO: John Dolan News
15.02.2013 From gas to cloud: the IT technical services and system administrator at Dublin Bay Power Plant (DBPP) John Dolan explains how a gas turbine generation facility has embraced...Categories: Virtualisation, Sustainability, Security, Risk Management, Mobility, IT Management, Infrastructure Management, CIO -
YouTuber discovers how to bypass iPhone 5 lock screen on iOS 6 News
14.02.2013 Another iOS 6 issue has been discovered and this one allows someone to access the dialler app, full contact list and call history from the lock screen by following a few simple... -
Irish IT security expert shortlisted for international award News
13.02.2013 Brian Honan of BH Consulting has been shortlisted for ‘Information Security Person of the Year’ in the prestigious SC Magazine awards.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, IT Organisation, IT Management, CIO -
PCI Council releases guidelines to aid merchants with cloud and e-commerce choices News
13.02.2013 New guidelines on staying secure when using e-commerce and cloud services have been published by an open forum for developing payment card security standards. -
US President Obama signs cyber security executive order News
13.02.2013 US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order that will bolster America’s cyber security defences through partnership with critical infrastructure providers. -
Cyber-criminals leverage Valentine’s Day with fake links and e-cards News
13.02.2013 Cyber-criminals will be taking advantage of this Valentine’s Day to trick internet users with fake files, links and e-cards designed to extract users’ personal data, warns the... -
US TV station hacked – zombie alert transmitted to stunned TV viewers (video) News
12.02.2013 A TV station in Montana became the subject of the latest hacker hoax when hackers broke into its emergency alert system and issued a warning to thousands of TV viewers that the... -
Ireland’s Dept of Social Protection cited as a change leader in global IT report News
12.02.2013 It may sound incredible to the ears of recession-weary citizens of a country paying a higher price than their neighbours for Europe’s debt mountain, but an Irish Government... -
Big data insights (infographic) News
12.02.2013 More than 75pc of mid-size to large businesses are implementing big data-related solutions within the next year, with customer care, marketing and sales departments increasingly... -
The five minute CIO: Brian McIntyre News
08.02.2013 Sage Ireland’s head of R&D Brian McIntyre on why it’s better to be Agile when building a product to deliver good customer experience, and the challenge on moving from a... -
Microsoft and Symantec bust US$1bn a year click fraud ring News
07.02.2013 Microsoft and Symantec have taken down the command and control servers used by a cyber fraud ring that netted criminals stg£700,000 (US$1bn) a year via a threat called... -
Nearly a third of computers scanned worldwide in 2012 were infected - report News
06.02.2013 Of all computers scanned around the world, 31.98pc of them contained malware, PandaLab’s 2012 Annual Security Report reveals. PandaLabs researchers estimate at least 27m new...