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Daily Mail publisher loses laptop with thousands of personal details

The publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper has said a laptop containing the financial and personal details of thousands of staff and suppliers has been stolen, according to reports.

Microsoft to release four security patches next week

Four security patches for Windows, Exchange and SQL rated 'important' are being release by Microsoft next week.

Viacom gets YouTube data, but Google keeps code

Google need not reveal its search code to Viacom, but its YouTube subsidiary must disclose a database listing who watched what video, when, and from where, a New York judge ordered this week.

Ex-IT contractor pleads guilty to defrauding Cisco

A former IT contractor for the city of Newark this week pleaded guilty to using his position to defraud Cisco Systems of millions of dollars.

Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray

Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecom is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Equifax bolsters border security

Equifax, a credit report company has chosen network-access-control technology to make sure contractors and employees access its network with machines that meet the firm's security requirements.

Balanced approach crucial in governing internet, says Nominet

UK domain name registry Nominet has welcomed the government's plans to fund an e-crime unit, but called for stronger governance of the internet to protect businesses and citizens from online crime.

NHS CTO: ‘Standards bodies need to stop arguing’

The chief technology officer on the £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT has told Computerworld UK that standards bodies must ‘stop arguing’ and work together, so that the NHS can deliver highly interoperable software in hospitals across the country.

Tech giants form patent-protection alliance

Cisco, Google, Verizon and HP are working to form the Allied Security Trust, a group that will buy intellectual property assets before they can be purchased by patent-holding firms, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

Unstructured data is biggest threat say IT professionals

Corporate information stored on file servers and network attached storage (NAS) devices represents a major security risk because many organisations’ IT governance policies and access rules are incapable of dealing with a massive growth of unstructured data,

Unpatched browsers are growing menace

Only 59 percent of people use fully patched web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from hackers, according to a study by Swiss researchers.

Hotel chain hit by keylogging malware

Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have managed to infect hundreds of thousands of computers - including more than 14,000 within one unnamed global hotel chain.

Barclays offers free software to online customers

Barclays has signed a two year deal with Kaspersky that will see the bank offer its two million online customers free security software.

Ex-Body Shop IT pro fined £85,000 for market abuse

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined a former IT technician at The Body Shop for market abuse.

Microsoft IE6 zero-day bug warning

An unpatched cross-site scripting bug in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) could be used by hackers to capture keystrokes and steal other information, security researchers are warning.

Major vendors band together to boost security response

Five major network hardware, software and services vendors are banding together to improve IT security by promoting faster responses to threats.

Tough data security sanctions put on Whitehall

The Cabinet Office has published a range of mandatory measures to prevent a repeat of the data loss scandal that hit HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) last year.

Yahoo patches email cross-site scripting vulnerability

Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability that could allow a hacker to get access to a person's web mail account.

Information commissioner to take action on HMRC, MoD

Information commissioner will take formal enforcement action against both HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Ministry of Defence (MoD), following spate of high-profile data loss incidents.

HMRC data disc loss 'entirely avoidable'

Systematic failures and "woefully inadequate" processes for handling data at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) led to the loss of personal details of 25 million people, according to two scathing reports published today.

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