Reports are coming in that eight laptops – one containing the medical records of 8.63 million patients – went missing three weeks ago from an NHS storeroom at NHS North Central London Health Authority.

Mike Yaffe, director of enterprise marketing with Core Security, has launched what appears to be a thinly-veiled attack on the IT security professionals defending the systems that have been hacked in recent weeks and months by hacktivist groups such as…

Cellcrypt has taken the wraps off an encrypted telephony app for Google Android smartphones and tablets. Compatible with the firm’s existing Symbian and Blackberry apps, as well as its commercial systems, the app supports 2048-bit RSA encryption.

US Senate officials have ordered a security review after hackers from LulzSecurity broke into the chamber’s website over the weekend.

The reputation of the ChronoPay e-money service took a battering last year when security researcher Brian Krebs revealed the backers of the service had questionable links with cybercriminal sites.

Despite a number of infected apps appearing on the official Android Market – the equivalent of the Apple iTunes store – earlier in the year, Google still appears to have an infected apps problem, with one US researcher having spotted infected bonus ver…

C-level executives are concerned about moving business-critical applications into virtual and clouds environments due to the challenges of security, reliability, availability, and performance, according to a recent survey sponsored by Symantec.

The widely reported cracking of the Skype protocol – a process that will eventually allow tech-savvy hackers to eavesdrop on Skype IP data streams, whether or not compact headers are used – could have been prevented, says StarForce Technologies, the Ru…

The European Union has set up a team to establish a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to counter the threat of cyber attacks against EU institutions, bodies and agencies.

Power plant control systems and smart meters are two components of the smart grid that could be particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks, says Ulf Lindqvist, program director at SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory.