California’s Contra Costa County has informed around 4,700 residents that confidential information about debts they owed to the Health Services Department was posted online.

This is the highest penalty ever imposed by the Information Commissioner. It follows a series of data protection breaches by Powys; the latest being the release of confidential child protection information to the wrong person.

Kaspersky has resigned from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). First reports indicated that it was because of the BSA’s almost automatic support for the US Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Now Eugene Kaspersky has personally explained the reasons: ‘…

Adobe is patching a critical zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could enable an attacker to take control of an affected machine.

Christmas is the annual festive period when shoppers make merry and fraudsters make money. We need to take care; but perhaps our guardians shouldn’t be over-zealous.

M86 Security has released a new version of its Web Filtering and Reporting Suite specifically aimed at schools. With pupils’ growing use of both personal and school-issued portable devices, it is becoming increasingly important that staff are aware of …

The 2011 Lloyd’s Risk Index has been published. While cybersecurity is only one aspect of overall business risk, it shows a surprising disparity in companies’ attitude and preparedness in information security.

Russian media outlets and an election watchdog said they were the targets of cyberattacks during the recent Russian elections.

In its latest escapade dubbed Operation Robin Hood, Anonymous is vowing to steal credit cards and use them to donate money to charities and the “99%” of people who are poor.

A feature that comes standard with Windows 7 would have prevented the hack of RSA, which compromised the SecureID tokens used by some of the biggest names in the US defense industry, wrote Qualys researcher Rodrigo Branco.