This week sees the introduction of new penalties for breaches of the Data Protection Act. Regulated and enforced by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the maximum fine for an organisation found to be in breach of the act rises from just £5000…

Research just released in the US claims to show that three quarters of workers are now saving corporate data on unencrypted USB sticks and, says Origin Storage, if this data is extrapolated to the UK, it suggests there is a high risk of data leaks occu…

Visa International has taken the unusual step on advising its member financial institutions – who process card transactions for their retailer customers – that the incidence of trojans carrying keylogger malware is rising, and that retailers need to ta…

The US has lost its place atop the leader board as the chief source of malware in March, as research from Network Box indicates Korea – mainly South Korea – can now claim the top spot when phishing attempts are included in the statistics.

Infosecurity rounds up the week’s news

A security researcher has come up with a proof-of-concept attack that enables malicious executables to be remotely injected into clean PDF files.

The March report on electronic threats from BitDefender claims to show that trojans continue to get top billing – topping the IT security vendor’s list with 13% of total global malware is Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen, a generic mechanism designed to spread th…

Government psychologist Tanya Byron has called for a fresh review into regular and mobile internet usage by minors, suggesting that the social networking industry should have an accepted code of conduct in order to protect under-age users.

Tech vendors, interest groups, and academics have formed a coalition advocating for modification of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which they claim is severely out-of-date.

Microsoft has discovered a slew of bugs in Office 2010 by building what amounts to a legitimate botnet for software testing. Engineers within Microsoft have created a grid-style system that employs unused computing time on internal PCs to run fuzz test…