Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey in North London, were jailed yesterday after an intensive investigation spanning multiple UK law enforcement agencies.

Security firm IronKey has announced that its Enterprise S200 package of USB flash drives and management software is undergoing certification for government use by the CESG, the UK national technical authority for information assurance.

An RFID tracking program, funded by a federal stimulus grant, has drawn the ire of privacy advocates in California, prompting the EFF and ACLU to call the technology “insecure” and “risky”.

Yesterday’s announcement about a redesigned Twitter detailed the micro-blogging service’s intent to upgrade its user panel to include rich media accompaniment. While the move is a bold step in enhancing the Twitter user experience, one security vendor …

It seems that hackers sympathetic to the government cause in Malaysia are silencing websites that criticize the government using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack methodologies.

After an intensive internet campaign over the last nine months, Avast Software is claiming that its free IT security software of the same name has topped the 130 million user mark, an increase of a third since the start of the year.

Reports are coming in that the Iraqi resistance group claiming to be behind the `here you have’ malware may be located in Spain, as a video posted on YouTube, from the profile of a 26-year-old apparently living in Spain, is claiming the cyberattack com…

Adobe has announced it will release security patches for the latest zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in its Reader and Acrobat products.

UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.

European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.