For all the concerns about cybercrime and digital espionage the threat that can do the most harm to any organization is the one that comes from inside. It doesn’t take much these days for a disgruntled employee to become motivated enough to share valuable business information with outsiders. Whether it’s for revenge or profit, most IT organizations are not really prepared to prevent that leak from happening or identify the source of that leak once it happens.

In a story that is getting all too common, Internet-based businesses are getting caught once again in the act of taking user data without permission.

The latest company to attain dishonorable mention is Path, the social networking and photo sharing site.

A group of American and European mathematicians and cryptographers have uncovered a significant flaw in the encryption method currently used by banks, online shopping sites and e-mail services to protect sensitive data.

There is what we like to call collateral damage when a data breach occurs even when there is no damage to those whose records were exposed.

A recent report indicates the Flashback Trojan malware -- the malicious code discovered last September -- is back to haunt Apple Mac users.