A former San Francisco network administrator faces up to five years in jail after being found guilty of tampering with the city government’s computer network. (more…)

Smartphone users are being warned to safeguard their data after a UK government survey revealed that 67% were not taking precautions to protect information held on their handset. (more…)

Lawyers defending the hacker accused of breaking into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account claim that his PC had been infected with spyware. (more…)

Wherever we go, it seems that our ability to access public wireless, or WiFi, networks is increasing by the day. (more…)

Bloggers and site owners using the Wordpress content management system are being advised to upgrade to the latest version of the software after a worm was found to be affecting downloaded versions of the system. (more…)

A report on business IT security has played down the notion of malicious “insider” computer security attacks, claiming that the majority of security flaws and breaches happen completely by accident. (more…)

The Conficker or Downadup worm has been taking the headlines in the past few months, with a $250,000 bounty currently on the head of the man responsible for unleashing a bug that eventually hit an estimated 15 million PCs, making it one of the most widespread infections since the SQL Slammer in 2003. (more…)

The economic downturn will lead to an increase in internal IT security threats, according to research from software giant Microsoft. (more…)

The recent password scandal with the social networking site Twitter, in which several high profile users including Barack Obama and Britney Spears had their profiles vandalised, has raised the issue of password security once again. (more…)

90% of local authorities in the UK cannot guarantee that all sensitive data held on their laptops and other computer systems is encrypted, according to a new report. (more…)