Reports are coming in that Zurich Insurance has lost the details of 51 000 UK customers after an unencrypted data tape went missing in South Africa.

A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.

Information security: Breaches, walls, charges, tools, and deals.

Reports are coming in that the Guardian Jobs website has been compromised by hackers, and that as many as half a million users of the portal have had their personal details compromised.

The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.

Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.

Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institu…

At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled ‘Governments face up to the cyber security challenge’, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication “not worth anything anymore”.

The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week’s RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland.

Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.