Ealing Council’s computer system was crippled by a virus after an infected memory stick was plugged into the IT resource. The council has been landed with a £500 000 bill to clean up the security mess that has resulted.

With the recent scares about the swine flu, more and more businesses feel the need to plan for a pandemic, but are their security and IT up to the challenge?

Reports that a North Carolina business has been left with a US$2500 phone bill after phone phreakers hacked its PBX via the firm’s toll-free number shows the danger of failing to audit all aspects of a systems’ software, said Fortify, the application v…

The problem of cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaws – which have affected hundreds of websites this year – has spread to broadband routers, as a security researcher claims that the Thomson wireless box III supplied by O2 leaves internet users “wid…

Bloxx, a web filtering firm, has issued a warning that anonymous proxies – which are now being used by students to bypass campus blocks on inappropriate content – pose a serious information security threat to young people.

The US could end up with slower broadband speeds than the UK if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) accepts submissions on the definition of broadband from US internet service providers (ISPs).

The Home Office has denied that the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) will set up a database to collect and store the fingerprints of people who apply to work with children and vulnerable people.

Microsoft will launch the latest version of its operating system for mobile devices next month.

In this week’s information security news: Trojan eavesdrops on Skype; Snow Leopard only recognizes two Trojans; private messages are sent to wrong recipients; search warrants are needed for digital data; and more…

The American Civil Liberties Union has called on the UK foreign secretary to review the “lopsided” extradition treaty to prevent people like UFO hacker Gary McKinnon being “unfairly” removed from their home country to stand trial abroad.