A Gucci network engineer who was fired by the company used his expertise and insider access to wreck havoc on the IT systems of the Italian fashion house, according to an indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.

Research just released by Informatica claims to show that 74% of financial firms have admitted to a lack of confidence or uncertainty in their organisation’s capabilities when it comes to protecting customer information in the development stages.

Low enterprise adoption of data loss prevention (DLP) technology will cause businesses to fail, the research firm cautions.

Low enterprise adoption of data loss prevention (DLP) technology will cause businesses to fail, the research firm cautions.

Internet radio company Pandora Media has been asked for documents related to a federal grand jury probe into information sharing by smartphone applications that run on Apple and Android mobile platforms.

The Lizamoon mass SQL injection attack in which rogue code was injected into thousands of legitimate sites to lure users to malicious sites has claimed few victims.

With the dust now settling on the Epsilon marketing database breach, it seems that around 50 companies have been directly affected by the hack, raising fears that so-called spear phishing attacks may be the result.

Just two months after the Zeus source code was reportedly offered for exclusive sale for $100,000, it seems that the code is now being offered at bargain basement prices through multiple outlets.

An upset Xbox gamer has publicly hacked the Xbox Live policy and enforcement director’s online account, posting a YouTube video and claiming that the use of foreign customer support centres means that almost anyone’s Xbox account can be hacked.

The latest quarterly malware report from Panda Security claims to show that smartphone malware dominated the security landscape, as witnessed by the rash of Google Android infections.