Close to one-third of companies are archiving email on free webmail services such as Gmail and Hotmail, which exposes potentially sensitive information in those emails to breaches.

Skype users are being warned about a phishing campaign designed to harvest their PayPal account credentials.

Facebook is investigating a huge wave of spam attacks that have caused violent and pornographic images to be posted on some users’ profile pages.

Reports are coming in of a major data theft involving a range of Norwegian organizations in the country’s oil, gas and defense arena. Unconfirmed reports suggest that the cyber-espionage case may the biggest in European history.

EURid, the .eu top level domain registry, has taken the wraps off a new service for internet registrars that simplifies the signing and managing of .eu domain names enabled for the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) enhanced hosting facility.

The Q3 security threats report from Kaspersky Lab claims that all manner of new and varied threats are now heaving into view on the threats horizon. Threats such as hidden malware in QR codes all the way to targeted attacks on major firms are the lates…

As the ongoing furore over the relaxation of security at UK border crossings continues with politicians name-calling the UK’s border control agency, a leading biometric and border control specialist says that more needs to be done behind the scenes to …

Sutter Health, a healthcare system in northern California, reported that an unencrypted laptop containing personal information on more than four million patients was stolen from its Sacramento offices.

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon university – in partnership with Google – have developed a Windows application that can scour the internet, comparing images found online with a submitted picture, and identify you within 60 seconds.

With MastercCard having just reported a surge in mobile payments (31% of Russians have used this technology), ISACA has issued a white paper looking at the security risks involved and offering guidance for IT security professionals.