Commenting on the ICO’s call for a rethink on location privacy, Cryptzone says that geo-location tagging security issues are likely to be a major issue in 2012 - and that many users of smartphones are unaware of the potentially serious security consequences of their use of the technology.

 According to Grant Taylor, vice president of the IT security and compliance specialist, now that most smartphones have native GPS/satnav features, the default setting for most pictures – and videos – taken with these devices is to embed the GPS co-ordinates along with the date and time that the image was taken.

Ramat Gan, Israel – November 29 2011 –Tufin Technologies, the market-leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management Solutions, today announced that it has ranked twelfth on the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe.  Having already ranked the fasted growing technology company in Israel, Tufin’s phenomenal year-over-year growth – 6343% over five years – also secured its premier ranking on Deloitte’s EMEA list.

“Making the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA ranking is a testament to a company‘s commitment to technology,” said David Halstead, Deloitte United Kingdom and partner in charge of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA program.

London 28 November 2011 Commenting on reports that AT&T’s accounts system has been hacked - and the data used to make $2 million-worth of calls to premium rate numbers - Lieberman Software says the saga should act as a wake-up call for IT security professionals everywhere.

The reason, says Philip Lieberman, president and Chief Executive of the privileged identity management specialist, is that terrorists are reported to have funded the four men arrested in the Philippines in connection with the hack.

“Although details of the database hack are still emerging, it seems that the hackers used the information harvested from AT&T’s servers to attack client telecoms computer systems, and so generate the revenue-producing calls,” he said.

 London, UK – 29 November 2011- Commenting on research that large numbers of UK firms are failing to ensure that confidential data is destroyed when their IT equipment reaches the end of its working life - placing their own staff, customers or partners at risk of fraud, or further serious security breaches - the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show say that better education on security policies is central to solving the problem.

Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe's event director, says that, with 40 per cent of organisations reporting they are not confident that all their data is deleted before disposal of computers, it is clear that something needs to be done.