Rob Waugh

President Barack Obama proposed to increase Defense Department spending on cyber security to $4.7 billion this week - a rise of $800 million. This budget increase stands out against a background of broader Pentagon budget cuts.

60,000 Android apps were removed from Google’s Play app store this February. Categories such as personalization (ringtone apps) were targeted heavily, with 12,277 deletions.

A new Global Center for Cyber Security at the University of Oxford will coordinate international work on cyber threats and cyber security. The Center will receive £500,000 ($766,000) in UK government funding every year.

Utility companies have been warned not to share information such as email addresses on company websites, after a spear-phishing attack on an American electricity company.

More than half of British companies could be at risk of cyber attack, after a survey found that IT departments had not begun the process of migrating from Windows XP- with just a year left before Microsoft stops offering support for the ageing OS.

The idea that we might ‘think’ passwords instead of typing them sounds like science fiction - but a team of UC Berkeley School of Information researchers has proved that it can work, using existing 'mind reading' headsets.

Up to 81% of computer security professionals reuse passwords across multiple applications, violating security best practice

PayPal has warned of a looming security crisis if new top-level domains such as .bank are brought into use later this year.

Representative Mike Rogers, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said that Congress needs to act quickly, in an interview with NBC this week. The websites of major U.S. banks have been offline for 249 hours in the past six weeks, due to a series of sustained cyber attacks by an unknown foreign group.