After several months of tests, PGP Corporation has announced that its Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) technology has been approved for use by the Ministry of Defence and British Armed Forces.

The recent well-publicised worms affecting the Apple iPhone – Ikee and Ikee-B – have raised a stir in the mobile phone security arena, but, says ESET, the IT security vendor, many observers have failed to realise the real problem with mobile phone secu…

Adobe has announced that it will be issuing a critical update for its Flash and Air products tomorrow – but isn’t telling us what the vulnerabilities are.

The issue of data leaks have been in the news constantly these last 12 months, with a litany of companies hit by publicly embarrassing leaks, losses and thefts.

How easy is it to steal an identity on Facebook, the popular social networking portal? Very, as Sophos Asia-Pacific discovered recently when it carried out the Facebook equivalent of a honeypot hacker trap.

The Cameroon ‘.CM’ domain tops the list of the riskiest top-level domains in terms of cybersecurity, according to a report from McAfee.

Online criminals are stepping up their campaign to infectInternet users with the Zeus trojan, according to new research published by Atlanta-based managed security firm SecureWorks. Email campaigns in particular are on the rise, the company has said.

Gridsure, the security specialist that has developed a highly secure pictorial authentication alternative to PIN / passwords, has received a major award in France.

CARE International is challenging the IT industry to its 3 Peaks Challenge raising money to help fight poverty.

Anti-malware firm Prevx has apologized to Microsoft after admitting that the ‘black screen of death’ – a condition that renders Windows unusable after bootup – was not caused by faulty system patches after all.