This case has been going on for a while but obviously hush hush, being that it is the largest breach of customer data in U.S. History. The details of the case have only started emerging in the last couple of months.
Information Week published a good article covering what has been going on recently.
Amazing the amount [...]

Seems like a social engineering type attack again relying on human ignorance and stupidity. Based around some kind of malware reporting back to a central repository.
Remember kids if a deal is too good to be true…it isn’t.

Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. companies by seducing employees with fake job-listings [...]

Recently GFI launched a free, online portable storage device scanner called EndPointScan.
http://www.endpointscan.com
EndPointScan, is an industry-first, free online service that allows anyone to check what devices are or have been connected to computers on their network and by whom.

Using this diagnostic tool, one can identify those areas where the use of portable storage devices could pose [...]

Can you believe this the provincial government in British Columbia has managed to auction off a set of data tapes containing people’s social insurance numbers, dates of birth and medical records among other information.

The provincial government has auctioned off computer tapes containing thousands of highly sensitive records, including information about people’s medical conditions, their social [...]

So just a few days about there was a new MSN Worm – BlackAngel.B, before that the Yahoo! e-mail worm, long before that of course the MySpace worm and a few others not notable enough to mention.
And of course plenty of nasty Trojans.

A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data [...]

1. Introduction
This article describes and partly implements a method to delete or re-locate, potentially sensitive and / or incriminating information from your UNIX flavoured machine, after the sad event of your death.
An older version of this article has been published before, yet it has since disappeared from the Internet and the Google cache; hence this [...]

So you better make sure you do.
As we discussed in the article on Social Engineering in Penetration Testing, it’s not that the employees don’t care as such, it’s that they don’t know. They haven’t been educated, they are ignorant, their awareness of best practise is low.
An experiment carried out within London’s square mile has revealed [...]