The Ministry of Defence has admitted losing the details of 600,000 people after the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham last week.
Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks.
Criminals have stolen the identities of 1,500 staff in the UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and used them to make fraudulent tax claims on a government Web site.
Companies and individual Internet users can now protect themselves against a dangerous piece of malware which steals personal information such as credit card and banking details.
Thousands of UK e-passports stolen this week are likely to sell for up to 20m on the black market, privacy experts have said.
Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
Does the improved credit card security offered by chip and PIN-embedded credit cards mean a future of greater personal liability?
There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the old adage goes -- but is there such a thing as free Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi sharing company Fon thinks it has the answer, as does Google-backed start-up Meraki.
Passwords will soon be a thing of the past, replaced by biometric and smart-card technology, Bill Gates reiterated on Tuesday.
Australian Federal Police agent, Nigel Phair, said most Australian organisations sweep security breaches under the carpet to avoid public scrutiny in the courts.
Security expert Bruce Schneier says the danger from cyberterrorism is "overblown."
The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.
China's 960 million citizens will be issued with digital smart ID cards, starting from next year.
Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.
Faced with an increasing number of wireless technologies and standards, planning a long-term networking strategy is a daunting prospect.
Sony Ericsson has taken its P800 smartphone, made some improvements, and repackaged the whole thing. The result is a highly capable device that's the equal of its competitors.
Life isn't easy for the enterprise network manager. Do you really have to be concerned about a short-range, under-powered personal area network protocol named Bluetooth? I don't think so.
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