Wi-Fi hack caused TK Maxx security breach
The biggest loss of credit-card data in history was brought about largely because of lax wireless LAN security, it has emerged
The biggest loss of credit-card data in history was brought about largely because of lax wireless LAN security, it has emerged
Thousands of tenants of two London housing associations had their data exposed after a contractor left an unencrypted memory stick in a London pub.Banking details of 800 Lewisham Homes tenants were on the unencrypted USB drive, which contained personal information of 20,000 tenants of the housing association in total, data protection authority the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said on Thursday.
Home secretary Alan Johnson has unveiled what ID cards will look like for UK citizens, amid Tory complaints that the scheme has already cost the taxpayer over £200m
Attacks on the critical national infrastructure are becoming increasingly likely, claims BP's manager of digital security services
Security vendor Symantec has launched a project aimed at plugging holes in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).Project 'Canary' will run alongside IE "looking for attempts to exploit the browser", according to Adam Bromwich, senior manager for the development of advanced concepts at Symantec.
Search company has not sought to refute research from McAfee that claims Yahoo returns the riskiest results of the top five search engines
Declining profitability and the risk of identification are causing a decline in distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to Symantec
Networking giant has issued two sets of patches to address flaws in its wireless LAN controller software
As the latest version of OpenOffice Password Recovery is released, experts warn that documents created using the software may not be secure
Former White House adviser Howard Schmidt warns that hackers aren't just going after big corporations, and small businesses must beware.