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Will the loss of two CD-roms make the government overhaul its security procedures? The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been found guilty of breaking data protection laws after a security lapse on a visa application website. Visa has doled out some US$880,000 in fines to a Cincinnati-based acquiring bank that retail chain TJX contracted with to process most of its credit card transactions. A Windows expert has blamed the silent support update that Microsoft deployed in the past two months for PCs running Windows XP with Windows Update being unable to download updates correctly. A new poll split highlights the challenge of sustaining company policy that meets the evolving threat landscape. The "human factor" — employees, customers, third parties and business partners — are the "greatest root cause of security breaches," according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's 2007 Global Security Survey. Popular instant messaging and VoIP applications are leaving enterprises in grave danger of running into financial and legal disaster, according to industry experts.
Police in the Indian city of Mumbai are planning to force cyber-café owners to install key-logger software to monitor users. The Bank of India website is operational today – approximately four days after security teams disabled it after hackers embedded malware on the home page. When it comes to data security, enterprises have historically taken a "stop them at the gates" approach, similar to the purchase of a home security system. U.K. businesses are failing to adopt the security controls needed to protect customers' information, according to the 2006 Department of Trade and Industry's biennial Information Security Breaches Survey. Anti virus software for the 64-bit version of Windows Vista is struggling to properly protect the operating system, according to a new test by the Virus Bulletin security certification body. The CEO of PGP Corporation has criticised the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas for directing his attack at the chief executives of UK organisations. Seattle police have charged a former Boeing employee with 16 counts of computer trespass for the alleged theft of 320,000 files, as well as leaking them to a Seattle-area daily newspaper. Bluetooth security is based around a number of assumptions that can no longer be relied upon. Don't sit around waiting for the next piece of legislation. It's better to be adaptable and make general compliance your aim. Rob Buckley reports. Windows users are being warned of fake Microsoft security advisories that actually link to a malicious website. Database managers caught between a rock and a hard place, says report. Being public enemy number one is a lot more mundane than you might think, the notorious hacker tells Paul Fisher as he awaits extradition. Buffer overflows have long been a primary vector of attack against computer systems — and the rise of local buffer overflow vulnerabilities and zero-day attacks makes it a problem that's likely to grow more troublesome.