A UK council is objecting to a 70,000-pound fine levied by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for losing sensitive data as the result of a theft at an employee’s home.

US high-tech firms have teamed with German research institute Fraunhofer FOKUS to open a cybersecurity research center in Berlin.

Government databases are full of highly prized and highly sensitive personal information. The upcoming Communications Bill will generate one of the very largest databases. The government says it will not include personal information.

Mobile Spy is covert spyware designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s smartphones, employers to catch time-wasters, and partners to detect cheating spouses. But vulnerabilities mean the covertly spied-upon can become the covert spy.

US security firm McAfee recently uncovered several ready-to-use toolkits that enable hackers to redirect unsuspecting Pinterest users to malicious websites with only a couple lines of code.

The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari.

The online travel industry is the most vulnerable to email attack, according to a newly launched email trust index by email security firm Agari.

Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.

For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead; it appears that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ plans to ease police tracking of those who use the web for criminal purposes has been shelved.

A new study by BAE Systems Detica shows that British business is pessimistic about security in general, but strangely confident about its own.