In what security experts are calling ‘the largest ever identity theft case in modern history’, a US man has been charged with stealing data relating to 130 million payment cards.

Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the popular BlackBerry email-enabled smartphone, has released a major update to its smart card reader for the BlackBerry range.

Tesco’s Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the Global Services division for supermarket Tesco, has deployed a unified threat management appliance from Fortinet to provide IT security across the company.

Whilst eBay and other major internet auction sites appear to have cleaned up their acts on the pirate software front, smaller sites are still letting some postings through.

The recent launch of nine high-specification mobile phones that use the Mobile Linux operating system (Limo) will add fuel to an already overheated market.

Reports in Computer Weekly that a number of local authorities are sacking or disciplining staff for viewing personal data on the Department for Work and Pension’s Customer Information System (CIS) comes as no surprise, says Cyber-Ark, but merely serves…

In its second quarterly report on IT security threats of 2008, software-as-a-service (SaaS) specialist ScanSafe reported that web-based malware had surged by over a third when compared to the first quarter of the year.

Campaign Monitor, the Australia-based email marketing software developer, has warned users of compromise to its servers that took place over last weekend.

The problem of religiously-motivated hacker attacks raised its ugly head again this month with an attack on the Express newspaper in Kosovo. Newswire reports suggest that Islamist hackers attacked the paper’s website using a combination of simple malwa…

Microsoft has issued a security note about a flaw in Windows ASP.NET that it says could allow a DDOS security situation.