Glasgow City Council has been forced to write to 37,835 suppliers and residents following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from its offices in Cochrane Street.
Anonymous and law enforcement: unlikely allies
Anonymous and the various law enforcement agencies would, at first glance, appear to be pitted against each other. But events suggest that their intentions are remarkably similar.
Teen site Habbo Hotel suspends chat after pornographic content reports
Finnish online teen community Habbo Hotel has shut down its chat functions after reports of pornographic content, the site announced Wednesday.
Enterprises should employ a “no jailbreak” policy on mobile devices, say analysts
Gartner’s John Girard and Lawrence Pingree went in depth on mobile security risks at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit outside Washington DC. The primary risk to data breaches, as they see it, are allowing jailbroken or rooted dev…
ICO re-opens Google Street View probe in the UK
The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office, has written to Google demanding further information about the collection of personal data via its Street View project.
One-third of CEOs have never been briefed by CISO on security
A disturbing 36% of chief executive officers (CEOs) have never received an information security report from their chief information security officer (CISO), a survey sponsored by CORE Security found.
US attorney general appoints prosecutors to probe Stuxnet leak
Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed US attorneys to investigate the leak of information about the US government’s involvement in developing the Stuxnet worm, along with other recent national security breaches.
Security is a pillar of Dell’s strategic vision
Michael Dell participated in one of the keynotes at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Summit outside Washington DC, in what amounted to a fireside chat with Gartner analysts about Dell’s future in IT security.
‘Adding Game’ on Facebook spam alert
Barracuda Labs has discovered a new Facebook spam methodology currently being seeded across the social network giant.
SandForce SF-2000 SSD Processor’s AES-256 is broken
SandForce, acquired by LSI earlier this year, produces flash storage and SSD processors. For more than a year it has been selling its SF-2000 SSD Processor product with AES 256 encryption – that doesn’t work.