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Bletchley Park wins £460k in lottery funding
News The home of Britain's WWII codebreakers is in line to receive a further £4.1m to aid its restoration and transformation into a heritage site [29 Sep 2009]
Tories: Centralised data creates 'honeypot' for fraud
News The shadow justice minister has said a Conservative government would collect less personal data and have a minister in each department accountable for information security [29 Sep 2009]
Google deactivates Gmail account after bank error
News The search giant and Rocky Mountain Bank have asked a court to dismiss a case that stemmed from the bank inadvertently emailing customer data to a random Gmail address [29 Sep 2009]
ID card ad campaign to launch later this year
News The Home Office is to spend over £500,000 this year on a marketing campaign for the identity card which features cartoon fingerprints [28 Sep 2009]
Post offices to collect foreign nationals' biometrics
News The UK Border Agency will trial fingerprinting and photographing foreign nationals applying for identity cards in post offices [25 Sep 2009]
iTunes update fixes security flaw
News A flaw in the music software could allow a hacker to take over Windows and Mac machines remotely [24 Sep 2009]
Anti-cybercrime centre opens for research
News The £30m Centre for Secure Information Technologies in Belfast is working on powerful processors for data-scanning and other projects to protect people both online and offline [24 Sep 2009]
MoJ lost sensitive data on 1,500 staff
News The Ministry of Justice lost an encrypted memory stick in March this year, containing the personal details of 1,500 people [24 Sep 2009]
Lib Dems: Don't count on Tories over surveillance
News Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference that the Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases [23 Sep 2009]
Microsoft to release free antivirus software soon
News The software maker will release its Microsoft Security Essentials 'in the coming weeks', according to a note sent to testers [22 Sep 2009]
Scheme aims to reduce threat for net-linked devices
News ICSA Labs, which sets standards for commercial security products, has a new programme designed to help companies keep hackers and malware off their networks [21 Sep 2009]
Microsoft files lawsuits over online 'malvertising'
News The software maker filed five lawsuits on Thursday to try to slow the growing threat of malicious code in online advertisements [18 Sep 2009]
eBay, Yahoo among most trusted for privacy
News The companies are among the top 10 most trusted in terms of privacy, according to a new study, though the Electronic Frontier Foundation warns trusted is not the same as trustworthy [17 Sep 2009]
Tories pledge to end the database state
News The Conservatives have promised to reverse the 'rise of the surveillance state' in a policy paper describing plans for fewer giant government databases and stronger powers to protect personal privacy [16 Sep 2009]
First identity commissioner appointed
News As part of his role, former civil servant Sir Joseph Pilling will act on behalf of the public to ensure information on the National Identity Register is accurate and secure [16 Sep 2009]
Businesses overlooking biggest security risks
News Companies are looking in the wrong places to defend against online attacks, says Sans [15 Sep 2009]
Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez faces 25 years in prison and $3m in fines and restitution related to charges in New York and Boston, while a New Jersey case is pending [14 Sep 2009]
MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News A cross-party group of MPs will seek a meeting with the US ambassador to request a halt to the extradition of Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon [10 Sep 2009]
Apple patches multiple iPhone, QuickTime flaws
News Ten holes in Apple's smartphone operating system and media player software could leave owners open to hacking and phishing attacks [10 Sep 2009]
Obama taps OpenID for government websites
News Yahoo, Google and eight other top technology companies are participating in an effort to bring OpenID single login to US government websites as part of Obama's Gov 2.0 initiative [10 Sep 2009]
Australian gov't calls on experts over DDoS attack
News Security experts from Australia's Department of Defence have been called in to assist agencies that were targeted by an attack on websites including the prime minister's [10 Sep 2009]
NHS security breach in Scotland revealed
News Scottish NHS education department agrees to take steps to improve data security after an unencrypted laptop is stolen [10 Sep 2009]
MPs urge Johnson to halt McKinnon extradition
News A delegation of cross-party MPs is putting pressure on Alan Johnson to block the extradition of the Nasa hacker to the US, insisting the home secretary has the power to do so [09 Sep 2009]
Norton adds behavioural engine Quorum for 2010
News Symantec is betting that program behaviour is the future battlefront of security and is making a big push in its 2010 Norton lineup with a behavioural engine dubbed Quorum [09 Sep 2009]
Australian police probe government cyberattack
News Police have been called in to investigate a planned denial-of-service attack on Australian government web servers due to occur on Wednesday evening [09 Sep 2009]
