It seems that the loose organisation of the Anonymous hacktivist group is causing problems, as reports are coming in that the web portal of Eidos International, a major gaming firm, was hacked and defaced on Wednesday night (US time) of this week.

For more than a decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has failed to fix information security problems identified by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), as well as the VA’s Office of the Inspector General, the VA’s independent auditor,…

James Whyte, head of IT service delivery with F&C Investments, and a member of the Jericho Forum, says that there is now a clear need for an effective – and secure – digital ecosystem in cyberspace.

Reports are coming in that the source code for Zeus, a long-running trojan that has been modified many times since the summer of 2007, is now available on several underground forums.

The reputation of the apparent cybercriminal’s playground that is Facebook took another battering this week after a Symantec researcher revealed that as many as 100,000 Facebook applications are leaking data to third parties.

The theft of credit and debit card numbers from PIN-pad tampering at Michaels stores in the Chicago area extends nationwide, the company admitted this week.

The Canadian government is vulnerable to a security breach similar to the US government’s WikiLeaks snafu that resulted in the leak of hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, concluded an internal government report.

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion has not gone down well in some quarters, with some experts questioning the wisdom of allowing the Redmond giant access to such a massive unified communications service.

The Jericho Forum has taken the wraps off a set of best practice identity principles – enshrined in a set of commandments – which seek to lay down the ground rules for IT security professionals when dealing with the complex world of digital identities.

The Jericho Forum has taken the wraps off a set of best practice identity principles – enshrined in a set of commandments – which seek to lay down the ground rules for IT security professionals when dealing with the complex world of digital identities.