Alan Martin

September's breach of Home Depot that saw 56 million sets of credit and debit card data stolen was not the only thing lost in the leak, the company has revealed.

A year ago, Silk Road 2 appeared on the dark web, after the original Silk Road site's illegal drug trade was shut down by the FBI. Now, Wired reports Silk Road 2 has met a similar fate to its predecessor.

Government requests for private Facebook data have increased by nearly 25% since the second half of 2013, the social networking giant has reported.

A new malware has been discovered that targets both Apple Mac computers and iPhones, Neowin reports. It is the first known malware that can infect iPhones that have not been jailbroken.

Echoing sentiments from across the Atlantic earlier in the year, the head of British spy agency GCHQ as made calls for crypto backdoors into phones to tackle crime, stating, "privacy has never been an absolute right."

A group of Canadian issuing banks have begun a pilot test of an NFC-enabled version of Nymi - a biometric wristband that uses the cardiac rhythm of the wearer to authenticate the user's identity.

American Express has launched a new service, which looks to swap payment card numbers with unique tokens, reports Network World.

City University professor Dr David Stupples and a team of researchers are looking into ways of minimizing the risk of hacking planes in the future.

A special Parliamentary Select Committee has told peers in the United Kingdom's House of Lords that there will be a global shortage of " no less than two million cyber security professionals" by the year 2017, IT Pro Portal reports.