The average cost to UK business per record lost, according to the latest Symantec/Ponemon study, has increased from £47 in 2007 to £79 in 2011. Had it been inflation alone, it would have increased to just over £53.

The top security concern of IT professionals regarding public cloud computing is the lack of perimeter defenses and/or network control, according to a survey by cloud security provider CloudPassage.

(ISC)², a non-profit information security professional association, and the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC), a non-profit organizations to improve IT acquisition standards, have formed an alliance to improve the US governme…

A number of hackers have succeeded in jailbreaking the new iPad within hours of its release.

Tibetan organizations are under attack from Chinese spear phishers who were also behind the Nitro attacks that targeted Western chemical and defense firms last year, according to research by AlienVault.

The Hydraq trojan, which wreaked havoc during the Operation Aurora attacks in 2009, is back. Actually, it never went away, note Symantec researchers.

On 6 February hacktivist group Anonymous delivered a threatening email to Bashar Assad’s personal email account. On 7 February his use of that account ceased.

Consumers are taking privacy and security into account more often when making purchasing decisions, would consider leaving companies in the wake of a data breach incident, and measure corporate reputation based on these issues, according to a survey by…

Mozilla has fixed eight vulnerabilities, a majority of them “critical”, with the release of the latest version of its web browser, Firefox 11.

The Dutch Big Brother Awards for 2011 have been announced. There are three prize categories: People, Companies and Government.