A new study has concluded that most people choose passwords that are far too short to be totally secure against brute force attacks from criminals. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are recommending that 12 characters becomes the standard length to ensure protection. This conclusion has been reached as a result of a hacking [...]

Analysts are predicting that the total global spend on security tools and software packages to protect and secure data will rise by the year’s end as the industry sees the effects of the economic turndown wane. Gartner reports that businesses and organisations will spend £10.6 billion on security in 2010, which equates to an 11 [...]

Research suggests that those at the very top of the food chain within a business are more likely to compromise the security and integrity of personal data and internal systems than those on a lower pay grade. The news comes from a report compiled by Dynamic Markets on behalf of security vendor Sourcefire, which lays [...]

Security experts are warning that businesses cannot rely entirely on data protection platforms which operate on the cloud while neglecting their in-house security, as a combination of the two is believed to be the best solution to the problems of data loss and theft. Security vendor Network Box has published a report into security within [...]

Businesses and individuals are at risk of serious data loss and security breaches as a result of a new botnet running on the Zeus 2.0 platform that is gunning for internet users based in the UK, according to security vendor Trusteer. The main aim of the botnet is apparently to harvest data that will allow [...]

Businesses are being put at risk of losing data because employees are contravening policies which require that social networking sites are not accessed on corporate devices and systems. Others are circumventing restrictions which automatically block such services in order to gain access against the wishes of their managers. This is according to a report authored [...]

The Information Security Forum (ISF) has outlined the challenging new world in which data protection must function as part of a study which identified that end user environments are becoming ever more labyrinthine and disparate. Although there is a general move towards greater understanding of technology amidst staff within both the public and private sectors, [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is being put under pressure to ensure that every public and private organisation that suffers data loss or a security breach is obliged by legislation to notify it of such events. It has also been suggested that the ICO’s power to fine those found to have contravened the rules of [...]

A new study has concluded that a tenth of all NHS trusts are not adequately protecting data or securing their systems, thus highlighting them as inappropriate for connection to key IT systems offered by the health service. The 10 per cent of trusts that received an amber rating in relation to their data security measures [...]

Experts have analysed how the government’s role in the protection of private data has changed and whether or not it should increase or reduce the level of its involvement in the prevention of data loss and subsequent censure. 74 per cent of UK staff believe that the government should be responsible for increasing general levels [...]