Repair Management Services of Blackburn need to shift their data protection policies up a gear or two after losing a laptop computer containing the personal details of 37,000 people - including 1,900 ...

A former support administrator to a large IT company has been sentenced to one year in prison after he cost his ex-employers $30,000 in damages by shutting down their servers in revenge. Lesmany Nu...

The answer is a resounding ‘Yes’! Businesses hold all kinds of data; some of it is more valuable than others but all of it needs to be protected. In an increasingly ethically-minded business w...

It can be difficult to imagine what a data loss scenario will be like; it might be all of your data is lost, or only part of your data is corrupted and you have to find those missing parts urgently. I...

The spread of Wi-Fi internet connections throughout coffee shops, airport lounges and other public spaces has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, we now have more flexibility to do work...

97% of IT security and administration staff in small to medium-sized business face level or falling IT budgets in the recession, putting increased strain on internal systems as companies try to go gro...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the British Council in breach of the Data Protection Act having lost an unencrypted disc of British Council staff details. The disc, which co...

Worrying reports from Internet security firm Symantec suggests that web-based attacks on people’s computers have been rising greatly since 2008, with identity theft being a primary concern. In 2008 ...

New measures have been introduced by the European Commission (EC) to ensure the safe transfer of personal data between countries. These include a new set of question & answers and a flow chart for sma...

In a bid to protect the European economy’s digital backbone of communications services and networks, the European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new strategy building on 2006’s ‘Strategy for a S...