The East Surrey Hospital has admitted it lost the details of around 800 patients on unencrypted memory stick in September of last year. The revelation was made in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s annual report.

According to security researcher Brian Krebs, phishers and cybercriminals have been casting an unusually wide net of late, sending out huge volumes of fraudulent email designed to spread password-stealing banking trojans. And, he reports, judging from …

General Motors’ OnStar navigation and emergency services provider has reversed itself and decided not to continue to collect data from vehicles of former OnStar subscribers.

Cloud security specialist Qualys is supporting two Convergence notaries, based on an approach developed by security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, as an alternative to SSLs and certificate authorities (CAs).

The US Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce are seeking public comments on a proposed voluntary program under which Internet service providers (ISPs) would notify users when their computers have been infected by botnet malware.

Medical records of 4.9 million US military personnel and their families have been compromised as a result of a theft of backup tapes from an SAIC contractor’s car in San Antonio, Texas.

The war of words between the US and Iranian governments took a dark turn last week when an Iranian army chief – apparently responding to comments from US military chiefs’ previous threats of an internet war – said that Iran will respond to any form of …

A Trend Micro fraud analyst claims to have spotted rogue versions of Opera Mini, a Java (jar) mobile phone browser that can be downloaded and used on a wide number of mobile phones.

Betfair has apparently admitted that data on more than three million of its customers – including 2.9 user names and almost 90,000 bank account details – was hacked by cybercriminals, possibly from Cambodia.

High-level turnover at the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) cybersecurity office may be a factor in the reorganization of the National Protection and Programs Directorate, which oversees the office.