A USB drive that contained the medical records of patients and personal information on NHS staff was apparently lost by a member of staff of a secure medical unit in Scotland, and has turned up in a supermarket car park.

A North Carolina man has been accused of trying to hack into an automated teller machine and change its password, according to a complaint filed by the FBI.

Social networking giant Facebook temporarily shut down its live chat service this week, after a security flaw caused the site to begin showing some users’ chat messages to their other contacts.

The ISF are this year focussing on expanding their membership to include government and SME membership.

Research just released claims to show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are saying one thing and doing another when it comes to taking action to protect against the social networking activities of their staff.

Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.

Cybercriminals are selling fake and stolen accounts on social networking site Facebook in bulk in the underground economy, according to security researchers.

Two pump and dump scammers were convicted by a federal jury this week. G. David Gordon and Richard Clark, both of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be sentenced for stock trading offenses committed between 2004 and 2006.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the LoveBug worm, which was arguably the first malware infection that used social engineering techniques to propagate itself.

In a bid to help prevent websites being hacked without the owner’s knowledge, a Singapore-based hosting service provider has created a service which will alert site owners to any major activity on their sites/pages.