The latest report on the UK’s Counter Terror strategy says that extremist groups such as al-Qaeda are early adopters of technology in their bid to wage war on governments and their citizens.

The PCI Data Security Standard (DSS), originally developed to protect credit card data, can be used to vet cloud providers for data security practices, as well as provide a template for compliance with information security laws, noted Sean Bruton, seni…

The European Commission has opened a public consultation on expanding, standardizing, and clarifying personal data breach notification requirements for European businesses.

Signify has enabled its software token two-factor authentication (2FA) service as an Android app, making the company one of the first to extend 2FA to the Google smartphone platform. The Android app joins similar apps available for the BlackBerry, iPho…

Signify has enabled its software token two-factor authentication (2FA) service as an Android app, making the company one of the first to extend 2FA to the Google smartphone platform. The Android app joins similar apps available for the BlackBerry, iPho…

A Symantec researcher is reporting a large phish taking place surrounding Apple’s new iDisk cloud service, with recipients being routed to a rogue MobileMe/iDisk login page – located on a free web hosting service – in a bid to extract their login crede…

Research carried out by Avast has revealed that 60% of users of Adobe Reader are using an outdated and vulnerable version of the popular Adobe application.

The development team behind the Cocoon service – a cloud-based extension to Mozilla Firefox that stores all cookies and internet session attributes securely in the cloud – have announced the service is now free of charge.

A former Romanian hacker, after graduating in law in his home country, is reported to have refused to pay $240,000 compensation to the US government for hacking the servers of NASA, the US Navy and the Department of Energy back in 2005/2006.

Fulfilling a pledge she made in May, Texas Comptroller Susan Combs has hired a chief privacy officer to oversee data security in her office following a data breach in April in which personal information on 3.5 million citizens was exposed.