Personal records held on laptops and portable storage should be encrypted at all times the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has said after two educational organisations lost computers containing unsecured data.
The University of Glamorgan is to study cyberattacks based on Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs) as part of a new partnership with Finnish security company Stonesoft.
Britain's elite cybercops, the 85-strong police central e-crime unit (PCeU), have saved the country's economy £140 million in the last six months alone, the Metropolitan Police has said.
East Surrey hospital in Redhill lost an unencrypted USB stick containing the confidential records of 800 patients, the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS trust has admitted in its annual report.
High-end British security firm <a href="http://www.aepnetworks.com/">AEP Networks</a> is being bought by US defence contractor Ultra Electronics for an upfront sum of $57.5 million (£36.9 million).
A former Microsoft employee has been jailed for thirty-three months after admitting embezzling $459,000 (£296,000) from the software giant, apparently as part of a bizarre revenge campaign for his alleged treatment while working there.
IronKey is baling out of the business that made its name, selling its <a href="http://review.techworld.com/storage/3207270/ironkey-s200/">secure USB drive design</a> to storage giant Imation as part of a strategy that will see it focus on services and software.
Windows 8 will ship with a number of small but important security tweaks Microsoft hopes will make it a harder target for the viruses, worms and Trojans that were able to subvert older versions of the operating system.
UK consumers rate financial services, the public sector and online retailers as the most trusted sectors when it comes to securing their personal data, <a href="http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20110913_01&om_ext_cid=biz_socmed_twitter_facebook_marketwire_linkedin_2011Sept_worldwide_UKtrustindex">Symantec's inaugural Trust Index</a> has reported.
Courts should have the option to send people to prison for illegally accessing or 'blagging' personal data, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has told a Justice Select Committee hearing.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has publically ticked off Walsall Council after hundreds of discarded postal vote forms for local elections were discovered in a skip.
London's City University has gained funding for a new <a href="http://www.city.ac.uk/engineering-maths/research/cross-discipline-centres-and-groups/centre-for-cyber-and-security-sciences">Centre for Cyber and Security Sciences</a>, which will offer research and consultancy across a range of once-disparate but suddenly important areas of computer security.
The third Northern Irish company in a year has had its use of unlicensed software publicised in humiliating fashion by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
Airlines customers have grown used to taking a range of electronic devices on plane flights and now pilots are being allowed to follow suit as part of their jobs.
Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution industry under pressure, security experts have suggested.