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 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...

Users with DSL routers running distributions of Linux are reportedly at risk of a computer worm that has been circling the Internet for the past two months. The psybOt worm is attacking these routers ...

Confidence in the NHS will have suffered another blow after it was revealed Camden Primary Care Trust left unencrypted patient data beside a skip. The data, which including 2,500 patients’ names,...

Google’s cloud computing services have landed the search giant in hot water with the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (Epic), all because of a failure to adequately protect and encrypt users’...

"A Florida woman faces charges after police say she sabotaged the business from which she thought she was being fired." I just came across this news clip from earlier in the year that really underp...

Bigger isn’t always better HP’s online storage solution installation has failed – badly. On April 17th HP wrote to subscribers, saying: "...