Cybercrime is now the third biggest crime problem experienced by UK businesses behind only asset theft and accounting fraud, <a href="http://www.pwc.com/uk">the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)</a><a href="http://www.pwc.com/uk"/>Global Economic Crime Survey has found.
The Information Commissioner has given the public sector a harsh warning about the risks of email after two English councils were handed heavy fines for data breach incidents in which highly sensitive personal data was accidentally emailed to the wrong recipients.
Security vendors are behaving like "charlatans and scammers" by peddling antivirus apps to protect consumers from smartphone malware, Google's open source champion Chris DiBona has said in an uncompromising attack on the industry.
Fujitsu has added data encryption to its <a href="http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3262036/fujitsu-will-soon-launch-windows-7-business-tablet/">Stylistic Q550 slate PC</a>, creating what the company believes is the first tablet computer suitable for secure use for government and public sector use.
Police have suspended 2,000 .co.uk domains that were being used to rip off consumers with counterfeit goods.
The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is trialling a new system designed to modernise the way police forces around the UK process the growing volume of digital evidence.
Staff at New Zealand's St John's Ambulance service were forced to coordinate emergency call-outs using manual radio systems last week after computers systems were hit by a mystery 'virus'.
The loss of a USB flash drive containing sensitive data has landed another public sector organisation with a reprimand from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for mislaying unsecured storage.
Coventry University is to open an 'Ethical Hacking Lab', the latest UK institution to put money into developing the practical skills that have been in short supply during the cybercrime boom of the last decade.
Kingston University near London has announced ambitious plans to "prepare for life without the desktop", virtualising its entire base of PCs, the first major project on this scale in the UK education sector.
A Scottish council has been ticked off by the Information Commissioner after a bungled Freedom of Information (FoI) request led to sensitive data on a large number of the authority's employees being posted to a website.
Sophos has appointed the highly-regarded Gerhard Eschelbeck as its new chief technology officer (CTO), almost six years after the Austrian crossed the Atlantic to join US-based Webroot in the same role.
ViaSat UK has taken the wraps off the Eclypt Nano, a ruggedised flash drive for government and military use, the only drive of its kind to be certified to Top Secret level by the UK's Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG).
One of Europe's elite 'blackhat' card fraud engineers has been sentenced to three years in prison at London's Old Bailey for helping European gangs steal money using tampered chip and PIN terminals.
One in five social media users has been negatively affected by information revealed on these networks, and more than one in ten have even had accounts hijacked, a survey by Barracuda Networks has found.