Utah Governor Gary Herbert has fired the director of the state’s Department of Technology Services (DTS) over a breach that exposed healthcare records of 780,000 Utah Medicaid recipients.

Losses from internet crime reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) totaled $485.3 million in 2011 and the number of complaints increased 3.4% last year compared to 2010.

Officials with York County, South Carolina, took nine months to notify close to 17,000 job applicants and vendors that their social security numbers were exposed by an intrusion into a web application server.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it plans to reopen the application process for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on May 22 after a software glitch that may have compromised applicant confidentiality forced the group to stop accepting applications.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte has admitted that financial account numbers and 350,000 social security numbers of students, staff, and faculty were exposed to the internet, in some cases for more than a decade.

The end of April was a busy time for IT security analysts. April 24th to 26th was Infosecurity Europe (InfoSec) at Earl’s Court, the biggest such trade show in Europe and the following week was ...

Several people have asked me for a response to Eugene Kaspersky’s views on Apple, as expressed at Infosecurity Europe last week, suggesting that Apple is ten years behind on security. But h...

By Stuart Lisk  Business continuity remains a major concern for enterprises as they move more mission-critical processes to the cloud. Outsourcing B2B integration while ensuring cloud security i...

Bring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some ...

The 'Perception' of DLPThink you can purchase the latest application and all of your data loss worries will disappear? Think again, says John Walker. To this security expert, DLP is about more than technology

Comment: Avoid the Inherent Risks of Consumer Gadgets and EmailConsumer gadgets and corporate email can be a risk to information; John Thielens of Axway looks at how this can be avoided without banning consumer devices altogether

Follow the Money: The Economics of Fake Anti-virusFake anti-virus remains a high-level threat for the most vulnerable of computer users. Danny Bradbury tracks the money

Comment: Taking the Ethical High RoadMarcus Ranum of Tenable Network Security outlines how the IT security industry can ensure its integrity by maintaining a strong code of ethics

Interview: Boris Goncharov, G4SQ&A with Boris Goncharov, CISO, G4S, and keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2012

Interview: Matt Palmer, Skipton Building SocietyQ&A with Matt Palmer, group information security officer, Skipton Building Society, and a keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2012

Interview: Mark Adams-Wright, Suffolk County CouncilQ&A with Mark Adams-Wright, CISO, Suffolk County Council, and keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2012

Interview: Graham McKay, DC ThomsonQ&A with Graham McKay, CISO, DC Thomson & Co. Ltd., and keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2012

Interview: Tracy Andrew, Field Fisher WaterhouseQ&A with Tracy Andrew, information security & compliance officer, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, and keynote speaker at Infosecurity Europe 2012

Comment: You Are the Weakest Link – In the Data Protection ChainInformation is the lifeblood of any organization, and in today’s world, we must ensure it is properly protected. There are a multitude of technological methods to secure our information, but any chain is only as strong as its weakest link says Richard Hall of CS Risk Management