People who use the internet may have greater protection from electronic eavesdroppers following a consultation on changes to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).

Entrust, the identity security specialist, has teamed up with EDAPS, the Ukrainian consortium of high-tech firms, to develop a highly secure document identification system for Interpol, the international crime agency.

Forrester said that it has developed a “zero trust” model designed to make security ubiquitous through the network, not just at the perimeter.

Composer Roger Davidson was scammed out of millions of dollars after he brought his laptop into a computer repair shop in Westchester County, New York, in 2004 to get rid of a virus.

The fact that social networking portal has more than 500 million members attracts attacks like moths to a flame. Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson has seen an interesting new twist to phishing this week on the site.

Armed forces minister Nick Harvey is to expand on recent announcements on UK cyber defences in London today.

One of the websites operated by the Royal Navy was shut down yesterday, after a hacker called TinKode gained unauthorised access to the server using an SQL injection attack.

The latest monthly analysis of the malware landscape from Kaspersky Lab shows that the ZeuS trojan continued to strike, as it became one of the most commonly used and best-selling spy programmes on the online black market.

More than 30 people built Stuxnet worm, noted Brian Tillett, information security researcher at Symantec. Stuxnet has attacked a range of targets including Iranian nuclear facilities and Chinese computers.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is preparing to impose fines on companies that break provisions of the Data Protection Act later this month, the information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has said.