UK organisations are losing 300 000 hours and £2bn a year through IT downtime, according to a report by CA Technologies.

European organisations are losing more than £500 000 per year because of the poor performance of cloud-based apps.

Money mule soliciting has always been associated with the less tech-savvy amongst the internet user base, mainly on the basis that such programmes prey on the greedy and gullible, but now it seems that soliciting is getting very professional.

Hewlett-Packard is widely reported to be close to buying intrusion detection security software company ArcSight for $1.5bn.

A hacker who claims to be behind the “Here you have” email worm that clogged up corporate networks last week, says it was designed, in part, as a propaganda tool.

The Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO) is investigating FIFA, the international football authority, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans – including their passport data – were accessed by one or more members of staff and th…

Attacks on third-party applications have become a major threat to enterprise information security, says security firm NGS Secure of the NCC Group.

EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, has announced that the .eu. element of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, is now one of the most secure in the world.

Last night the Global Risk Register – a non-profit organisation seeking to improve the risk management of businesses – was launched in at a special event in the London Cabinet War Rooms.

It looks like the summer security issues that plagued Adobe and its software users are continuing into September as Adobe has warned that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programmes.