A report from academics including Ross Anderson and Richard Clayton from Cambridge University suggests current cyberdefense is misdirected: too much money is spent on preventing cybercrime rather than apprehending cybercriminals.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is warning Southern California Edison that it might take enforcement action against the utility because of cybersecurity lapses found in a May security audit of its San Onofre nuclear power plant.

Glasgow City Council has been forced to write to 37,835 suppliers and residents following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from its offices in Cochrane Street.

Anonymous and the various law enforcement agencies would, at first glance, appear to be pitted against each other. But events suggest that their intentions are remarkably similar.

Finnish online teen community Habbo Hotel has shut down its chat functions after reports of pornographic content, the site announced Wednesday.

Gartner’s John Girard and Lawrence Pingree went in depth on mobile security risks at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit outside Washington DC. The primary risk to data breaches, as they see it, are allowing jailbroken or rooted dev…

The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office, has written to Google demanding further information about the collection of personal data via its Street View project.

A disturbing 36% of chief executive officers (CEOs) have never received an information security report from their chief information security officer (CISO), a survey sponsored by CORE Security found.

Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed US attorneys to investigate the leak of information about the US government’s involvement in developing the Stuxnet worm, along with other recent national security breaches.

Michael Dell participated in one of the keynotes at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Summit outside Washington DC, in what amounted to a fireside chat with Gartner analysts about Dell’s future in IT security.