Attackers used smaller businesses with less stringent security as gateways to their ultimate targets -- large corporations or governments that hold valuable secrets, according to a Symantec report on Internet security.

Cloud computing will affect everything in your organisation - right down to the bottom line.

Network security vendor, WatchGuard, has announced that 88 per cent of local public and private sector organisations are under more pressure this year in protecting against data loss than they were in 2010.

Most organizations believe they aren't in danger of losing data, but as recent news demonstrates, the threat is real and no organization is immune.

Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down.

Despite the increasing awareness of penalties and the damage that losing personal data can do to corporate reputations, network security executives are getting less certain that they can figure out if personal data has been compromised when corporate laptops are lost or stolen.

T-Mobile USA data that was posted to the Internet over the weekend is genuine, but the company was not hacked, the U.S. carrier said Tuesday.

T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.

For a while there it looked like 2009 would be remembered as the Year of the Dead Celebrity. But Michael, Farrah, Walter, Ed, and all the rest may have to move over. This is rapidly becoming the Year the Data Died.