Police are investigating a possible Home Office security breach after the discovery of an encrypted laptop containing a scrambled disc with the words ‘Home Office, highly confidential’ written on it. The laptop was found in a computer shop near Bolton,…

A US Department of Homeland Security-funded research program will help deliver Endeavor Security’s new method of targeting botnet and malware attacks before hosts are infected.

Identity theft and fraud in the US fell by 12% in 2007 as it fraudsters apparently relied on offline channels for their attacks.

With a key deadline rapidly approaching, will there be rapprochement between the Federal Government and a group of individual states over the implementation of the Real ID Act?

With a key deadline rapidly approaching, will there be rapprochement between the Federal Government and a group of individual states over the implementation of the Real ID Act?

Data broker ChoicePoint has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought against it over the three-year old data breach which exposed 163 000 personal information records.

The potential damage to a brand justifies the high cost of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) security compliance work, a major payment card operator told a gambling conference.

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says criminals hacked into the computer systems of utilities, cutting the power to several international cities.

Most database administrators do not apply the Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) that Oracle issues on a quarterly basis, a new study finds.

A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document warns that Boeing’s new 787 passenger jet flight control systems may result in security vulnerabilities as it connects the passenger network with the flight-safety, control and navigation network.