Sophos has added a new data loss prevention (DLP) technology to its stable of enterprise security software. The addition will, said the veteran security vendor, simplify how companies mitigate against accidental data loss.

Research just published by PricewaterhouseCoopers claims to show that around half of UK companies do not know how many security breaches they have experienced in the past year.

T-Mobile has reportedly been hit by two class action lawsuits alleging that the cellular carrier misled consumers into believing that their data was secure after data was lost in the cloud

Reports are coming in that the source code of the Wal-Mart highly customized point-of-sale (EPOS) computer system – used in almost 900 of its stores across the US – has been hacked.

Webroot, the internet security software specialist, reports that an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax email scam – in which US internet users have been emailed a malware-infected warning about under-stating their income or underpaying of tax – has arr…

In a session titled ‘Enhancing payment security in 2010’, Robert O. Carr, Chairman and CEO or Heartland Payment Systems – the subject of potentially the world’s biggest data security breach earlier this year – declared that the model used by quality se…

Apple Computer has been criticised for failing to address a potentially major code flaw in copies of Snow Leopard, its new Mac operating system, which means users’ main accounts can get wiped.

TeleTrusT, the German IT security association, awarded the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2009 to the Spanish Savings Banks Organisation (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros, CECA) for its e-signing project at ISSE 2009 last week in The Hague.

Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.

Origin Storage will unveil a one terabyte (1000 gigabyte) version of its Data Locker, secure external hard drive unit, at the Storage Expo show, which opens at London Olympia on 14 October for a two-day run.