Records from the city council’s social services department have been found on an unencrypted USB stick in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The stick was handed in by an IT consultant to the local newspaper, the Sentinel, on Friday, after he apparently found it …

Legislation that seeks to protect the nation’s electricity grid from any form of attack has been passed by the Energy and Environment Subcommittee.

Research just released by Symantec claims to show that targeted attacks are on the rise, with email originating from China and RAR attachments being a major source of security problems.

A self-confessed computer hacker who pleaded guilty to some of the most serious card account hacking and ID frauds in US history, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Convicted criminal mastermind Albert Gonzalez – the man behind the infamous hack of TJX’s computer systems and more than 130 million payment cards – has been jailed for 20 years.

In an interesting analysis of the migration of local systems to the cloud, and the transition from desktop to laptops, netbooks and mobiles, Justin Foster, a software architect with Trend Micro, says that an unexpected transformation is taking place at…

Protests against the UK’s Digital Economy Bill are increasing, with organised protests taking place in London, Manchester and Sheffield, Infosecurity can report.

California’s Symantec has taken the wraps off Web Security Monitoring (WSM), a new service for companies to check on their websites and ensure they are not being hacked, or perhaps worse, infecting their internet users.

The Conservative Party may well be an odds-on bet to win the general election later in the spring, but their reputation on the IT front took a battering this weekend after a website designed to highlight the Labour party’s links to the Unite trade unio…

eSoft has taken the wraps off a major update to its secure web filtering service, Sitefilter 3.0, which is used as a ‘white label’ facility by a number of third-party organizations.