The National Identity Register (NIR), which was built to hold the fingerprints and personal details of millions of ID card holders, has been publicly destroyed.

In addition to patching flaws in Reader and Acrobat with its latest quarterly update, Adobe has addressed security flaws for Flash, Shockwave and Cold Fusion.

Visa is encouraging merchants to adopt EMV-compatible chip terminals capable of processing either contact or both contact and contactless payments as part of a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance program.

Hackers from China have attacked the computer networks of global oil companies with the intention of stealing information.

Hackers from China have attacked the computer networks of global oil companies with the intention of stealing information.

A white paper just published claims that organisations that choose not to notify on data breaches are living on borrowed time.

Research just released claims that the limitations on what can – and cannot – be sent via email, due to message size considerations, is hampering the efficiency of the public sector in the UK. And as a result, some workers are now using file-sharing se…

A Russian hacker has pleaded guilty to stealing $10m from the WorldPay online transactions service, spending the proceeds on two apartments and a luxury car. And, incredibly, he has escaped a jail sentence.

An Australian newspaper has reported on the case of 93-year-old woman who was told by ‘Microsoft’ that she had a virus infection on her PC and that she would need to disinfect it.

Cybercrime has thrived over the past decade according to recent reports from security firm McAfee, but business can expect even more dramatic change in the next ten years, researchers say.