Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital in Louisville has notified the public of the loss of a flash drive containing the personal information of 24 600 patients.
Researcher to unveil ATM rootkit
A researcher originally blocked from giving a talk about security in ATMs will go ahead and make his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference this year.
VeriSign report details ways to defend against DDoS attacks
VeriSign has released a report that seeks to assist online businesses and other enterprises in protecting themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Lost NHS USB drive exposes medical records
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.
FBI thwarts ATM hacking attempt
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.
Facebook publishes chat messages by mistake
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.
ISF expands membership opportunities
The ISF are this year focussing on expanding their membership to include government and SME membership.
Half of SMBs do not use social network filtering
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.
More than two-thirds of IT security investment wasted, says Verizon Business
Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.
Cybercriminals trading in large volumes of Facebook accounts, say researchers
Cybercriminals are selling fake and stolen accounts on social networking site Facebook in bulk in the underground economy, according to security researchers.