Worldwide software piracy is on the rise, according to a study by the Business Software Alliance and analyst firm IDC.

The importance of Estonia, one of the most Internet-connected and e-trading nations on earth, has ramped up a notch or two with the FBI, which has announced plans to station a cybercrime expert and his/her team in the country later this year.

With the economic downturn, cloud computing is seen as a way to improve operational efficiency, reduce headcounts and help with the bottom line, but according to the report from Massachusetts-based Forrester Research on cloud computing, organisations s…

Danny Bradbury rounds up the most important news in the security space from the last week.

The recent outbreak of swine flu has thrown up a number of topics related to information security ranging from secure sharing of data between health professionals, to spam / phishing and issues around remote working.

Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.

Heartland Payment Systems has revealed that it lost US$12.6m as a result of its 2008 data breach, in the same week that it finally regained official Payment Card Industry Data Security standard (PCI DSS) compliance.

Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security.

Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.

The fourth annual Global Security Challenge Competition where security entrepreneurs compete for up to US$500 000 in cash grants, is open for entries until 15 June 2009.