Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.

Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members’ chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users’ Facebook areas by stealth.

Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week’s Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia’s Elcomsoft released the first version…

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.