Oil giant BP has caused a stir by revealing it has lost a laptop containing the personal details of 13,000 victims of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Research published today claims to show that 39% of mobile phone owners in the UK would not spot their handset missing within an hour.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) – the equivalent of the UK’s MI5 operation – is investigating a major hack of the government’s email systems down under.

It looks as though Microsoft is quietly tracking down the cybercriminals behind the infamous Rustock spam botnet, following the software giant’s court-approved seizure of several command-and-control servers.

Scammers are increasingly using current events, such as the Japan earthquake and tsunami, to trick people into donating money to bogus organizations or clicking on bogus news reports that contain embedded malware.

American Express has neatly leapfrogged Visa’s P2P micropayment gameplan by announcing plans to launch its own service, months ahead of Visa, and offering the service on the web, as well as on Apple iPhone, Android and BlackBerry handsets.

How robust is an Apple iPhone? Very, judging from a report from US Air Force combat controller Ron Walker, whose iPhone fell out of his jumpsuit pocket – from 1,000 feet in the air.

Around 970 visitors to Maine state parks, between March 21 and Dec. 22, 2010, may have had their credit card numbers exposed as the result of a malware attack against the online state-park pass system, the Maine Conservation Department announced.

Last night was Census 2011 night and all UK householders are now requested by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) to fill in the required forms under threat of a possible fine. But questions have been raised about the security of the census data, w…

In-browser web security specialist Trusteer has warned internet users about the apparently new problem of targeted malware attacks, where criminals use business social networking sites to identify their victim, specifically infecting the target’s compu…