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A US federal judge has lifted a temporary injunction that denied three college students from presenting their subway payment hack research at the recent Defcon show. The Australian Taxation Office lost an unencrypted CD containing thousands of personal details – and waited three weeks to inform those affected of the loss. Civil liberties groups are stepping into the battle between the federal government and three students from MIT. Today, AusCERT released the results of its new home computer security survey, which it identifies is a growing target area for cybercriminals. As the dust settles from one of the largest data breaches since TJX, few fresh details emerged one day after Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain revealed that intruders stole some 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from its computer systems. California's extension of its data breach notification law to cover health care records promises to have significant impact on how medical organisations deal with patient information. Security researchers have uncovered a pair of vulnerabilities in VMware software, virtualisation technology used to run multiple versions of an operating system on a single computer. One flaw affects a server version of the software, the other is found in desktop software. Trend Micro has warned that hackers are intensifying attacks on legitimate websites to spread malware.. How misconceptions about data encryption are preventing A/NZ companies from effectively protecting data exchanged with employees, partners and suppliers.

An unknown number of clients of the Florists' Mutual Insurance Company had their personal information lost when a locked shipping case containing magnetic backup tapes was misplaced in transit. The Swiss national elections on 21 October will mark a world first for Geneva as the canton employs quantum cryptography to protect the dedicated line used for counting ballots. With the looming threats of publicly exposed personal data breaches, mishandled confidential partner information and lost intellectual property assets, an increasing number of enterprises are investigating options for securing data stored on both tape- and disk-based media. Georgia health officials reported today that a vendor working with the Georgia Department of Community Health is missing a disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Georgia health services recipients. Magellan BehavioUral Health Services has located a CD containing the personal and medical information of about 75,000 customers of Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. RSA's acquisition by EMC was one of the big stories of 2006. The area VP of international marketing tells Paul Fisher why it's a golden opportunity. Over the last several years, many well-known organisations have faced the consequences of highly publicised data breaches. These breaches directly impact an organisation's most valuable asset - their customers. A survey of around 2000 taxi drivers from eleven major cities around the world shows thousands of valuable mobile phones, handhelds, laptops and USB Sticks are forgotten in taxis every day. The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for tracking humans took a hit in a recent study released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Emerging Applications and Integrity Advisory Committee. The mobile, wireless world in which we now live has created a shift in the focus of venture capital investments in security technology. Today's investors tend to target technology that directly protects people and information, a marked change from a few years ago when the focus was the protection of corporate computer systems as a whole. CESG - the information assurance arm of the U.K. government communication headquarters (GCHQ) yesterday granted approval for government employees to use BlackBerry devices from Canadian vendor Research In Motion (RIM) to handle restricted data.