Industry experts have claimed that IT services are developing security measures at a slower rate than the innovation of hackers

With companies developing new technologies including web 2.0 solutions, unforeseen security issues have led to hackers taking advantage of problems, according to IT Week.

A high-profile security incident occurred last week when it was reported in the Sunday Telegraph that London mayoral candidate Boris Johnson had his office email hacked into, bringing down the computer system for several hours.

According to IT website theinquirer.net, it was subsequently claimed that the reporter had got mixed up and it was "merely the case that their network email had gone down and BT engineers were unable to find the source of the problem".

Despite this, cyber crime innovation continues to be a problem, talking to IT Week about hackers, Dan Hubbard, vice president of security research at Websense, states: "They haven't got business processes holding them back; they're free to innovate."

IT Week also reported that a forthcoming RSA survey reveals that 80 per cent of firms have not pursued innovations because of IT security concerns.

A recent Connect survey found that the two major concerns about outsourcing services like IT support were 'loss of control' (56 per cent) and 'budget over-runs' (43 per cent)