The Chip & PIN system pioneered by French banks in the 1980s – and rolled out across the UK and Europe in recent years – is to be extended to payment cards in Australia, Visa’s operation there has announced.

Malware authors are targeting those who missed the initial sign up for Google Wave, according to Symantec.

Windows 7 owners are having problems installing their new operating system, especially over Vista, according to comments on Microsoft’s support site.

The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command center for government cybersecurity in Arlington, Virginia.

The rapid rise in the number of swine flu cases – up by more than 50% in the UK in recent weeks and with similar infection rises in North America – has got some IT experts worried, with Gartner Group and the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) bo…

Tipping Point unveiled its latest intrusion prevention system this week, featuring an updated software / hardware combo that the company said is better at handling many tasks at once.

Annual research from Lloyds TSB has revealed that 76% of adults are currently worried about identity theft and 39% feel more at risk now than they did six months ago, with the recession playing a major contributing factor.

Approximately 10% of schools are deploying biometric technologies, according to Alasdair Darroch, director of Biostore

The ability of the latest BlackBerry series of mobile phones to create a secondary remote eavesdropping voice stream has reached the headlines again, with the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issuing a warning about a new application call…

The director of the FBI and the man charged with protecting the US from cyberthreats, Rober Mueller, has given up online banking after a phishing scare.