As we mentioned in a previous news story, from October 1st Cyber Essentials will be a requirement of all suppliers bidding for certain personal and

Ministry of Justice have been issued a £180,000 fine for losing a hard disk containing details of just under 3000 prisoners at HMP Erlestoke prison

Investigations of hundreds of police officers have been launched over the potential misuse of social media guidelines over a 5 year period, highlighting the rising

Two Israeli companies, both owned by the government, have reported that several military documents have been stolen.  The companies were responsible for the development of

A recently discovered flaw within USB (Universal Serial Bus) devices could be used to infect a computer and perform malicious activity without the user’s knowledge,

In the most recent Risk Outlook report by the Solicitor’s Regulation Authority, cybercrime was recognised as a new priority threat: “Breach of confidentiality: information security

The data that was stolen included 20,000 email addresses, telephone numbers and addresses. Although most of the data was encrypted, the data that was stolen

CNET, a news and technology product reviews website, has suffered a security breach in which data from one million users was stolen.  CNET was informed

After over 5,700 complaints, 5 people have been arrested in relation to hoax websites which trick users into believing the site is a legitimate government

ISPs from the UK, US, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Germany and South Korea have collaborated with the campaigners Privacy International to challenge GCHQ, the UK’s intelligence agency.