Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.

Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital in Louisville has notified the public of the loss of a flash drive containing the personal information of 24 600 patients.

A researcher originally blocked from giving a talk about security in ATMs will go ahead and make his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference this year.

VeriSign has released a report that seeks to assist online businesses and other enterprises in protecting themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

A USB drive that contained the medical records of patients and personal information on NHS staff was apparently lost by a member of staff of a secure medical unit in Scotland, and has turned up in a supermarket car park.

A North Carolina man has been accused of trying to hack into an automated teller machine and change its password, according to a complaint filed by the FBI.

Social networking giant Facebook temporarily shut down its live chat service this week, after a security flaw caused the site to begin showing some users’ chat messages to their other contacts.

The ISF are this year focussing on expanding their membership to include government and SME membership.

Research just released claims to show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are saying one thing and doing another when it comes to taking action to protect against the social networking activities of their staff.

Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.