The Cord Blood Registry (CBR), the nation’s largest stem cell bank, admitted that it lost unsecured personal data on 300,000 cord bank clients, a breach that could cost it millions to address.

Research just released by Retail Decisions suggests that cardholder-not-present fraud fell to £239 million last year, a reduction of 10% on the £266 million reported in 2009.

ENISA, the EU’s cyber security agency, has published a study on the botnet threat and how to address it.

Research released today claims to show that 49% of businesses in the UK do not have the facilities to remote wipe their employee’s mobile devices.

Panda Security is warning internet users to use extreme caution if they see an email advertising job opportunities in the Middle East

Microsoft appears to be counting on the luck of the Irish (Is Bill Gates Irish?) in not patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Internet Explorer (IE) browser for this month’s Patch Tuesday.

The non-profit IT security trade group (ISC)2 is teaming up with M.Tech to deliver information security education classes in Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.

Amazon has revealed it will launch its own app store, offering apps to users of Android and other smartphone platforms. The publishing giant also says it will be security vetting all apps before releasing them to users.

The fifth Pwn2Own cracking contest, due to take place later this week at the CanSecWest event in Vancouver, will see code cracker George Hotz – aka Geohot -, the infamous iPhone/PS3 technology cracker, publicly cracking the Windows Phone 7 smartphone p…

About one third of European smartphone users store credentials to access personal and corporate e-mail on their mobiles, a survey has revealed.