Barclays’ investment arm has been fined £2.45m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for failing to report its investment details correctly.

A ‘proof of concept’ virus called Win32/Induc.A is causing problems for programmers – including malware writers, according to this month’s ESET ThreatSense Report.

Research by the 3rd Man, an electronic fraud and security specialist, has uncovered some interesting statistics about cardholder-not-present transactions, as well as fraudulent mail order plus online card purchases in the UK.

O2 – as well as BT subsidiary internet service provider Plusnet – have both responded to a potential XSS security flaw identified in the Thomson TG565 and TG565n wireless broadband routers they issue to their internet users.

Research carried out by LV (formerly Liverpool & Victoria) Home Insurance claims that, over the last 12 months, eight million adults in the UK have given their cards – plus their PIN details – to someone else to make a purchase on their behalf or get c…

Ealing Council’s computer system was crippled by a virus after an infected memory stick was plugged into the IT resource. The council has been landed with a £500 000 bill to clean up the security mess that has resulted.

With the recent scares about the swine flu, more and more businesses feel the need to plan for a pandemic, but are their security and IT up to the challenge?

Reports that a North Carolina business has been left with a US$2500 phone bill after phone phreakers hacked its PBX via the firm’s toll-free number shows the danger of failing to audit all aspects of a systems’ software, said Fortify, the application v…

The problem of cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaws – which have affected hundreds of websites this year – has spread to broadband routers, as a security researcher claims that the Thomson wireless box III supplied by O2 leaves internet users “wid…

Bloxx, a web filtering firm, has issued a warning that anonymous proxies – which are now being used by students to bypass campus blocks on inappropriate content – pose a serious information security threat to young people.