Companies are embracing new web and mobile technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation, social networking and mobile communication at a faster rate than their information security strategies are updated.

The government could use £200m left over from a fund to pay for the switch from analogue to digital TV broadcasting to help pay for the roll-out of universal broadband.

Lawmakers in the US have introduced a bill that they hope will fix what they see as flaws in the controversial 2005 REAL ID act. The new bill introduces checks and balances to protect consumer privacy, according to congressional leaders and privacy wat…

LockLizard investigates the best approaches to document security depending on what clients want to achieve, in its white paper Document Security – a Guide to Securing Your Documents.

LockLizard investigates the best approaches to document security depending on what clients want to achieve, in its white paper Document Security – a Guide to Securing Your Documents.

PBX hacking – the act of cracking into a company PBX and selling long distance/international telephone time to third parties at a discount – is alive and well, despite several years of being out of the news.

There has been a surge in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against media sites in Belarus, something that could signal an escalation in cyber warfare in the region.

The perils of giving companies your payment card details and failing to realise the likelihood of those details being used when subscription renewal times comes around have raised their ugly head again, with Symantec and McAfee being ordered to pay $37…

The anonymity of cybercafe users in India is being severely curtailed, in a bid to stamp out illegal, fraudulent and terrorist usage of this popular method of gaining internet access.

An unencrypted laptop containing details on 109 000 pension schemes members with UK pension funds service provider, The Pensions Trust, has been stolen from a third-party office in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.