External IT security auditors are a rare breed in our industry, but Infosecurity was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Matthijs van der Wel, a manager of investigative responses with Verizon Business recently.

It appears that the evercookie – a zombie cookie that can remain after the deletion of cookies from a web browser – can be disabled after all, despite earlier claims by researchers.

Open source developers have released the source code for an Android privacy tool that found 50% of apps tested were sending personal information to advertising companies.

A doctor left documents containing personal and diagnostic information about 56 patients on a train after taking it home to work on after hours.

The number of large US companies reporting unauthorized intrusions in their networks increased to 67% in 2010 from 41% in 2009, according to VanDyke Software’s Enterprise IT Security Survey.

Australia’s New South Wales government does not know whether its agencies have adequate information security safeguards in place, according to a report by the state’s auditor-general.

It appears that online frauds are not generating the revenues they used to, as Panda Security says it has seen a fraud campaign whose pitch is aimed at Russian speakers.

Biometrics-driven border controls in the UK are now well advanced, with a trial at London Stansted so successful, that the technology is now being rolled out at Heathrow Airport.

Senetas Technology is teaming with ID Quantique (IDQ) and Siemens to deploy the first commercial quantum cryptography system in the Netherlands, according to the companies.

The UK government plans to spend £650m over four years on a National Cyber Security Programme to beef up the nation’s defenses against cyber attack.