Oracle is buying database security vendor Secerno in a bid to grab its database firewall technology
Barely a day after the rumours started to fly, Symantec confirms plans to buy VeriSign's identity and authentication security business
NASA hacker Gary McKinnon may benefit from the new government: Home Secretary Theresa May has reopened his case
Digital manifesto for the region faces criticism on open source and copyright expectations
Two US politicians have called for an investigation of Google, while in Europe the probes into its Wi-Fi snooping get…
Symantec is reportedly on the acquisition hunt again, after rumours suggested it may be close to a deal with VeriSign…
Ofcom plans to exempt small ISPs from the Digital Economy Act's anti file-sharing measures
Microsoft says disabling Aero will keep Windows 7 users safe from unlikely attacks on this flaw
Google flouted EU rules in its Wi-Fi data harvest, says Commissioner Reding. There will be a reckoning
Facebook's director of public policy promises changes in radio interview
After a German court recently introduced fines for users with unsecured Wi-Fi networks, there are fears that UK users could…
The UK Electoral Commission admits that it has no system in place to monitor the activities of users who are…
Now ordinary people are concerned about Facebook's privacy practices, Larry Walsh asks: will they change their behaviour?
McAfee's latest quarterly threat analysis found fewer exploits than last year - but evildoers are just as inventive as ever
Rapid roll out of smart grids in the US is jeopardising security, but deployments in Europe and elsewhere have been…
Application security pros say HTML5 brings with it a new set of security concerns for developers
Google says it will no longer collect Wi-Fi data after its Street View cars accidentally stored personal information for the…
The US Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has moved its Recovery.gov site to a cloud computing infrastructure powered by Amazon
Facebook tightens security as it deals with the continuing fallout over changes to its privacy settings
McAfee has announced its MOVE platform, which the security vendor believes will provide stronger and optimised security controls for virtual…
The cyber-gang known as 'Avalanche' has been identified as responsible for the bulk of phishing attacks in the last six…
The new government has scrapped the ID card scheme, but more action is called for in rolling back elements of…
One month after its record security update, Microsoft has published fixes for just two critical security bugs in this month's…
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) reported software theft cost the IT industry £34 billion last year, with China leading the…
Researchers have exposed a new attack that circumvents some of the most popular security software for Windows desktops
Facebook might be the world's largest social network, but it also suffers from some privacy and security issues that should…
Facebook has a slack attitude to privacy, and if its users don't keep their wits about them it will become…
Retina-X Studios has released Mobile Spy for the Apple iPad, pitching it as a way for businesses to keep an…