A leading IT security researcher claims that hackers are now electronically breaking into US car dealerships – not to steal cars, but the IDs and other credentials of car purchasers, most of whom buy on finance.

Reports that air traffic control data has been found on network kits sold on eBay comes as no surprise, says Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software.

Rumors of a series of German government-developed spyware trojans have been bouncing around for several years, but now the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) claims to spotted one in the wild.

Now into its 15th year, the COBIT 5 framework is in the final stages of ratification by ISACA and, as part of this evolution of the GRC (governance, risk and compliance) framework, the association has issued a new process assessment model.

Context Information Security has warned of a back door threat to the Apache platform that could allow unauthorized access to internal or DMZ systems.

A class-action lawsuit for $20 million has been filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics over a patient data breach in which personal information on 20,000 emergency room patients was posted on a public website for a year.

Check Point has taken the wraps off its 33rd software blade technology, which is an anti-botnet platform designed to counter the problems of botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).

A £30 graphics card can now process as many as 158 million passwords a second

Plusnet, the Sheffield-based ISP, has announced it is migrating its several million customers from their existing IronPort based anti-spam / anti-virus email security platform and over to a new solution provided by Cloudmark.

Almost half of organizations said their IT staffs are not ready to adopt the cloud, with data security cited as a top concern, according to survey sponsored by Symantec.