Smartphones stolen during the recent riots in London and other cities appear to be turning up for sale in large numbers, goods tracking company <a href="http://www.recipero.com/home">Recipero</a> has found.
The smartphone has become an ironic symbol of the London riots few manufacturers will want to dwell upon.
Many UK admins lack the skills, resources and time necessary to keep firewalls secure from well-drilled hackers, one of the country's loading penetration testing experts has claimed while launching a new defence training course.
In one of the most significant security roll-outs in recent NHS history, patient health records at Scotland's 1,300 GP practices and 97 hospitals are to be secured using Imprivata's desktop single sign-on (SSO) system, OneSign 4.5, NHS Scotland has announced.
The stubborn popularity of Windows XP is offering an easy target for the creators of rootkit malware, according to antivirus company Avast. Three quarters of all rootkits it found in a new study were on XP machines.
Sister companies, the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, have become the latest UK financial operations to secure online banking access for retail customers using <a href="http://www.trusteer.com/">Trusteer's Rapport browser plug-in</a>.
Extremist groups such as Al Qaeda are quickly adopting emerging technologies such as the Cloud, social media and P2P in their quest to spread mayhem, the authors of the government's <a href="http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/counter-terrorism-strategy/contest-summary?view=Binary">updated 'Contest' counter-terror strategy</a> have reported.
The age of .com has been put on notice. After years of wrangling, internet governing body ICANN has finally approved a dramatic expansion of top-level domain suffixes from the current 22.
A laptop containing unencrypted medical data for 8.63 million people has reportedly gone missing from a storeroom of a health authority in London, potentially the biggest data loss disaster ever to befall the NHS.
High-profile UK games developer Codemasters has admitted that hackers broke into the company's servers earlier this month and stole customer login data, including names, addresses, and dates of birth.
Two former employees of T-Mobile have been fined a total of £73,400 ($120,000) for stealing and selling sensitive data that alerted companies outside the network to the renewal dates for over 500,000 of the mobile network's customers.
Camden Borough Council has announced an ambitious plan to equip its entire laptop population with <a href="http://www.absolute.com/en-GB/">Absolute Software's</a> 'hardwired' theft-and asset-tracking system, Computrace.
Three men have been arrested across the UK in connection with an online document counterfeiting operation, the Metropolitan Police Fraud Squad has announced.
Spammers have started setting up bogus URL shortening services to act as relay points for traffic generated by their emails, Symantec's MessageLabs division has reported in its May 2011 Intelligence Report.
The prominent Public and Commercial and Services union (PCS) is struggling to get its website back online after being hit by a huge DDoS attack nearly a week ago.