Top brands face up to 10,000 "brandjacking" incidents a week from cybersquatters who are trying to pass off fake sites as genuine, according to new statistics from researcher MarkMonitor.
Privacy and information management research firm the Ponemon Institute says the average total cost to UK companies of a single data breach incident is more than £1.4m.
The Welsh Assembly is to secure more than 700 network security devices as part of a programme to drive improvements in public service delivery and inter-agency working.
Skipton Financial Services (SFS) has breached the Data Protection Act following the theft of an unencrypted laptop that contained the personal information of 14,000 SFS customers.
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is integrating back-office systems with its network through a managed service to enable communications data to be used by business applications.