Feb
03A security researcher is accusing Verisign Inc. of not acting fast enough to take down several dozen sites that he says are known to be spewing malware.
Feb
02The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a proposed bill that is designed to bolster federal cybersecurity research and development activities, and stimulate the growth of a cybersecurity workforce in the country.
Feb
02Google’s revelation last month that attacks out of China resulted in the theft of some of its data drew attention to the broader question at the Black Hat conference over what can be done to the villains.
Feb
01Over the last several years, PCI DSS has become a driving force in information security. Much as federal regulations like GLBA and Sox did in their day, PCI has become the hook that many organizations hang their budget request hats on in order to get funding. What a great model: Have the credit card industry use its muscle to get the merchants to institute good security practices.
Feb
01Shermlindcastle asked the Answer Line forum why his PC occasionally slows down to a crawl.
Jan
31Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft’s nearly nine-year-old IE6 browser starting March 1.
Jan
29A Government Accountability Office report this week called on the Transportation Security Administration to ensure that the controversial Whole Body Imager technologies the agency is planning on deploying at airports nationally first undergo thorough operational and vulnerability testing.
Jan
29It seems as if everyone is moving everything to the cloud. Meanwhile, sophisticated organizations are figuring out how to exploit cloud vulnerabilities to harvest valuable secrets. And if Google can’t stop them, what chance do you or I have?
Jan
29The long music piracy fight between the Recording Industry Association of America and Minnesota native Jammie Thomas-Rasset shows no sign of ending anytime soon.
Jan
29Google has unveiled a bug-bounty program that will pay researchers $500 for each vulnerability they report in the Chrome browser and its underlying open-source code
