The European Commission has announced a new schedule for the revision of the European Union Data Protection Directive, delaying legislative proposals for over a year, according to the French Information Commissioner’s Office, CNIL.

Security writer Brian Krebs says he has conducted a straw poll and analysis of the top IT security applications and found that large numbers of them fail to utilise the standard security features of Microsoft Windows.

Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.

Apple has advised users of all its mobile devices that run on iOS to avoid opening PDFs until a fix is released for a newly discovered flaw.

From their Silicon Valley office, David Perry, global education director of Trend Micro, told Infosecurity that it’s no longer sufficient to detect code, but instead, it’s more productive to detect the source of the code.

Microsoft plans to release an emergency security update for Windows today to patch a recently reported vulnerability in the way the operating system creates desktop shortcuts.

Research just released claims to show that a growing number of small to mid-sized businesses are starting to embrace the benefits of cloud computing technology, with 14% having adopted the platform by the end of June of this year.

Today sees anti-spam specialist Cloudmark launching its free standalone spam filter – Cloudmark DesktopOne. The software, which has been on beta test since April of this year, is unusual in its ability to filter webmail services, as well as POP3 and IM…

The world’s largest dedicated IT security firm became just a little bit bigger today, as McAfee announced plans to purchase tenCube, the privately owned provider of the WaveSecure mobile security service.

In his keynote at Black Hat, 29th July 2010, retired General Michael Hayden, who served as director of the CIA and deputy director of National Intelligence, says cyber warfare was inevitable considering the internet has not been built with defense in m…