The Conficker worm continues to be a threat and businesses need to be aware of two vulnerabilities it may have introduced to their IT systems, says an industry group set up to combat the malware.

Westminster City Council has developed a Children’s Hub that replaces a lot of what the cancelled child database Contactpoint would have done.

Last week’s high-profile zero-day Microsoft Windows XP flaw – which was apparently publicised by a Google security engineer – has been analysed by Sophos senior technology consultant, who questions whether Google’s engineer has acted responsibly in the…

Some rather amusing news comes our way today courtesy of Symantec, and it does not bode well for the creative prowess of spammers. It appears that one of May’s hottest spam trends was blank email subject lines according to the company’s latest “State o…

If you’re a World Cup fan, then you had better be ultra-careful on which links you click through to, as it seems that cybercrminals are ramping up their malware and infected emails to tap into fan’s interest in the World Cup.

Irish businesses which lose the personal data of more than 100 people will soon be required to report the data security breach to their country’s data commissioner.

India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.

Reports from Japan are coming in that Olympus has been shipping one of its digital cameras – the Stylus Tough 6010 – with a virus infection on the unit’s internal memory card.

UK Apple users will be able to purchase the iPhone 4 from O2 from 24 June. The latest Apple smartphone offers multi-tasking and is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone in the world, with the highest resolution display ever built into a phone.

India is appointing auditors to check that all telecoms equipment imported from China is free of software designed to monitor data transmissions.