A newly released survey from (ISC)² shows that federal CISOs are avoiding cloud computing applications due to concerns about replicating IT security policy in the cloud.

Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.

Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members’ chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users’ Facebook areas by stealth.

Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week’s Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia’s Elcomsoft released the first version…

Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.

Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital in Louisville has notified the public of the loss of a flash drive containing the personal information of 24 600 patients.

A researcher originally blocked from giving a talk about security in ATMs will go ahead and make his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference this year.

VeriSign has released a report that seeks to assist online businesses and other enterprises in protecting themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

A USB drive that contained the medical records of patients and personal information on NHS staff was apparently lost by a member of staff of a secure medical unit in Scotland, and has turned up in a supermarket car park.

A North Carolina man has been accused of trying to hack into an automated teller machine and change its password, according to a complaint filed by the FBI.