A plan to create a single UK database of prisoner records has spiralled to more than £500 million
The minds behind BBC television program "Click" have inadvertently thrust themselves into an ethical quagmire.
The last few months has seen a spike in hackers trying to steal data, researchers say
Firefox surpassed IE in the number of bugs reported in the software in 2008, say security researchers
In 1999 the Melissa worm announced a new kind of attack. Ten years later, the security industry is still catching…
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As the industry changes, a new resource has arrived to help IT professionals excel in their mission
The network giant's hosted service has flexibility - but can it compete with existing players like Symantec and Google?
Low-cost laptops are vulnerable because many of them come without standard security software, according to experts
With hackers circling round a flaw in Adobe Acrobat, security professionals have advice on how to survive till Adobe gets…
Botnets change quickly to avoid being taken down. Larry Seltzer assesses a move to combat them - and says more…
If your applications aren't behaving the way you expect, the problem may not be where you think. Peter Judge found…
Sixty percent of people who lose their jobs take company data with them when they go, according to a study…
Adobe has promised to fix a zero-day vulnerability which allows lets hackers seize control of users' computers - but the…
Network access control is a useless marketing buzzword; users and vendors should just get on with security management, experts have…
I've never really thought of myself as much of a seer, prognosticator or predictor of the future, but based on…
Microsoft has agreed that Windows 7 will generate a prompt if there is an attempt to change the user account…
Anti-virus vendors are getting more than 50,000 submissions of new malware per day now. How can the malware business be…
Italian officials charge Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer with criminal charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over…
We all saw what the concentrated efforts of a group of politically minded hackers could accomplish in 2007 when Russian…
A human error caused Google users to received bogus security warning messages for many of the searches the performed for…
First Microsoft touts clickjacking protections in Internet Explorer 8, then a security researcher releases a proof of concept for a…
A new survey shows 44 percent of the wireless devices used by retailers are vulnerable to attacks by data thieves.…
Websense has acquired Defensio, a spam filtering service designed to protect blogs, social networks and other Web 2.0 sites. According…
A new variant of a Trojan is targeting users of pirated Adobe Photoshop CS4 software. The Trojan is related to…
Microsoft has introduced a release client version of its latest browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), and the new iteration of…
Much has been written about the Conficker worm, also called "Downadup," in recent days. eWEEK has pulled together some general…
Security researchers are reporting that the Conficker worm virus, which preys on a recently reported vulnerability (MS08-067) in the Microsoft…
Apple updates QuickTime, fixing a number of remote code execution flaws. One security researcher expects malware writers to launch exploits…
Messaging and collaboration SAAS company Zoho updates its Firefox plug-in for Zoho Notebook to make it easy to import a…