The company's line of uDraw video game tablets and games failed to make a splash on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, despite last year's surprise success on Nintendo's Wii.

PopCap is launching new editions of its Bejeweled and Bejeweled Blitz separately on iOS as part of an intriguing strategy toward fully-integrated cross-platform games.

While other Japanese creators leave to start new companies, the man in charge of Sega's most popular Japanese series, Toshihiro Nagoshi, just can't leave, he tells Gamasutra.

Kaspersky has resigned from the Business Software Alliance (BSA). First reports indicated that it was because of the BSA’s almost automatic support for the US Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Now Eugene Kaspersky has personally explained the reasons: ‘SOPA-Dodger – or why have we decided to withdraw from the Business Software Alliance’.

This is the highest penalty ever imposed by the Information Commissioner. It follows a series of data protection breaches by Powys; the latest being the release of confidential child protection information to the wrong person.

California’s Contra Costa County has informed around 4,700 residents that confidential information about debts they owed to the Health Services Department was posted online.

There has been a 90% increase in Android malware families in 2011 compared to 2010, while malicious iOS families only increased by 25%, according to FortiGuard Labs.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) experts have uncovered malware in more than 2,000 free smartphone applications. Free rogue applications are expected to be the most common access point for mobile hackers over the next year.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a new report designed to help improve the proactive detection of security incidents. It is the result of questioning a wide range of leading CERTs combined with ENISA’s own expert input. It is a report largely by national CERTs for national CERTs; but has general relevance for any company determined to improve its security stance – and especially those that operate their own internal CERT.

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