In what security experts are calling 'the largest ever identity theft case in modern history', a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards.
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular BlackBerry email-enabled smartphone, has released a major update to its smart card reader for the BlackBerry range.
Whilst eBay and other major internet auction sites appear to have cleaned up their acts on the pirate software front, smaller sites are still letting some postings through.
Tesco's Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company.
The problem of religiously-motivated hacker attacks raised its ugly head again this month with an attack on the Express newspaper in Kosovo. Newswire reports suggest that Islamist hackers attacked the paper's website using a combination of simple malware and distributed denial of service (DDOS) atta...
Campaign Monitor, the Australia-based email marketing software developer, has warned users of compromise to its servers that took place over last weekend.
In its second quarterly report on IT security threats of 2008, software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist ScanSafe reported that web-based malware had surged by over a third when compared to the first quarter of the year.
Reports in Computer Weekly that a number of local authorities are sacking or disciplining staff for viewing personal data on the Department for Work and Pension's Customer Information System (CIS) comes as no surprise, says Cyber-Ark, but merely serves to highlight the need for highly privileged acc...
The recent launch of nine high-specification mobile phones that use the Mobile Linux operating system (Limo) will add fuel to an already overheated market.
Applications on the Apple iTunes website are arguably what makes the iPhone so popular in mobile phone circles, but a growing number of users are unlocking (jailbreaking) their iPhones, for the simple reason that it opens up the mobile to third-party applications. This means the iPod and iPhone coul...
Microsoft has issued a security note about a flaw in Windows ASP.NET that it says could allow a DDOS security situation.
Regulation could protect businesses and governments from poor IT implementations that have cost billions of dollars. But at present, software is generally shipped with a disclaimer which states that the manufacturer does not guarantee it will work, unlike regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals...
The Conservative party is to reveal plans to cut NHS IT spending by scrapping the government's planned central database for medical records.
Fibre optic networks are not secure enough to transmit information that has not been encrypted, according to a recent report from IDC Research.
A study just released by ABI Research predicts a period of healthy growth for managed wireless security solutions, with growth averaging 27% a year for the period 2008 to 2014.
The prospective national ID card was broken and cloned in 12 minutes, the Daily Mail revealed this morning.
Despite 30% of IT security companies increasing their investments in IT this year, fewer than half have a shared understanding of IT value across the enterprise and two-thirds fail to fully measure it, according to ISACA.
Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies - the unified threat management (USM) security vendor - has announced plans to buy privately-held BorderWare Technology, which employs around 90 staff, for an undisclosed sum.
Hard on the heels of researchers at last week's Black Hat security briefings showing how easy it is to recover third party passwords on Amazon's EC2 and Microsoft's Office Online services, Andy Cordial, Origin Storage's managing director, said that this highlights the fact that local storage technol...
Arbor Networks has published internet bandwidth usage figures from June and July that make fascinating reading if you ever wondered how less democratic governments such as Iran filters and blocks internet traffic for their citizens.