A disturbing one in five Mac computers are infected by some form of malware, according to research by IT security firm Sophos.

The three companies represented on the keynote panel (G4S Secure Solutions, Steria UK, and Skipton Building Society) are very different; and their CISOs have very different views on the functioning of risk management within infosec.

The US Department of Health and Human Services, the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), and 14 healthcare organizations have set up the first Cybersecurity Incident Response and Coordination Center for the healthcare industry

Symantec has identified a social engineering scam that attempts to get users to download malware from third-party Android sites by passing itself off as part of pop icon Björk’s popular Biophilia app.

I am not a hacker, says Zarefarid. I did this to warn Iranian card holders that their accounts are in danger.

The Flashback trojan, which infected more Macs than any other malware in history, used hacked WordPress sites to get onto machines, according to Kaspersky Lab researcher Vicente Diaz.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that an employee stole personal data on 228,000 Medicaid recipients.

“The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement was adopted with 409 votes in favour, 226 against and 33 abstentions,” announced the EU yesterday. Opponents included “rapporteur Sophie in’T Veld, who withdrew her name from the report.”

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has recently updated its standards for information security auditing, BSI officials told Infosecurity.

The UK government’s plans to allow security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet browsing habits are dangerous, according to World Wide Web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.