Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News The British-North American Committee and chief executive of ICANN claim business leaders are not taking data breaches seriously enough [08 May 2008]
RSA: Security as an afterthought hobbles business 
Video Art Coviello, president of RSA, explains why IT security is like the brakes on a car and how it can be an enabler of business initiatives [08 May 2008]
MoD encrypts laptops after data losses
News The Ministry of Defence is to protect 20,000 laptops with BeCrypt's Disk Protect Baseline after a number of recent data losses [09 May 2008]
ID cards: Cost of scheme set-up rises 37 percent
News The Identity and Passport Service says the cost of setting up the National Identity Scheme for the decade from October 2007 has risen from £245m to £335m [08 May 2008]
McAfee strikes Yahoo search deal
News The security company has struck a deal to flag up potentially unsafe website appearing in Yahoo search results [07 May 2008]
Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News Automatically generated exploit code from reverse-engineered patches can be countered with centralised configuration management, says the Sans Institute [06 May 2008]
Symantec: Evolved Storm worm attack brewing
News The malware which contributes compromised machines to the Storm botnet now has two further possible avenues of attack, claims Symantec [06 May 2008]
Symantec 'under pressure' despite strong results
News The security giant has posted strong end-of-year results but faces competition from high-performing rivals, says analyst firm Canalys [01 May 2008]
Over 600 HMRC staff disciplined for data infractions
News HM Customs & Revenue has reprimanded over 600 staff since 2005 for data-protection breaches, including 11 'major' incidents [01 May 2008]
Estonia's cyberattacks: Lessons learned, a year on
Analysis The concerted denial-of-service attempts against Estonia's critical national infrastructure have been a wake-up call for governments around the world [01 May 2008]
BCS: Gov't data breaches have eroded public trust
News The British Computer Society has lashed out at the government, saying its poor data-control practices have harmed people's trust in information sharing [30 Apr 2008]
The Russian approach to tackling data breaches
Q&A Kaspersky Lab co-founder Natalya Kaspersky aims to move beyond the consumer antivirus business by helping companies guard against data breaches [29 Apr 2008]
HP Software Update flaws threaten data leakage
News The company's Software Update tool has been found to contain flaws which can lead to remote code execution or the leakage of sensitive information stored on a PC [29 Apr 2008]
National anti-fraud centre due next year
News The Attorney General's Office for England and Wales wants the National Fraud Reporting Centre to collate reports of both cyber and traditional types of crime [29 Apr 2008]
FSA warns banks: Shape up on security
News Following an audit of 39 banks, building societies, insurance companies and financial advisors, the finance watchdog found many of the firms had gaps in security strategies [28 Apr 2008]
Police e-crime unit set for gov't go-ahead
News The Met's detective superintendent has said she is confident the police unit will secure the required funding 'in days rather than months' [28 Apr 2008]
Google: Security must always be on
Video Peter Lorant, Google's European head of enterprise partners, advises IT managers that, to deal with the threat of malicious web applications, security must be 'always on' [25 Apr 2008]
How to protect against blended attacks
Video Peter Wood, chief of operations for penetration-testing company First Base Technologies, explains how IT managers can use third parties to test their systems against blended attacks [25 Apr 2008]
Cyber-espionage hits businesses
Video Alan Paller, director of research for the Sans Institute, warns of the spread of cyber-espionage to the private sector [25 Apr 2008]
Schneier: Security products becoming too specialised
Video BT chief security technology officer Bruce Schneier talks about issues associated with the increasing specialisation of security products and the dangers around powerful mobile devices [25 Apr 2008]
Government split over mobile threat
News While one government agency has warned that mobile devices could be used to cripple critical infrastructure, another has downplayed the likelihood of a successful attack [25 Apr 2008]
Global security-software spend to hit £5.3bn
News Gartner says the £5.3bn figure will be reached by the end of 2008, rising to £6.6bn by 2012, as SMEs intensify their focus on security [25 Apr 2008]
Security expert: Cybercrooks to target mobile tech
News Former White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has warned SDKs for mobile devices will aid the development of malware [25 Apr 2008]
Ethical hackers get industry association
News The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers has been launched to provide a trade body and professional body for penetration testers [24 Apr 2008]
Citrix: Simple hypervisor key to virtual security
Video Chris Mayers, chief security architect for Citrix Systems, claims companies should look for as little functionality in their virtualisation software as possible to improve security [24 Apr 2008]
