IT Security news from FierceCIO

Spam, the bane of every office and personal email system, celebrated its 30th birthday on May 3 and as every CIO knows, age hasn't stopped the scourge from remaining ubiquitous. Microsoft founder Read more...

Sharing large documents, media files or data files is critical in the workplace and many CIOs rely on email systems because they are easy to use and familiar to most people. But as many IT executives Read more...

Here's a novel idea: why not route all of your network traffic through a second computer before it gets to your primary machine, thereby protecting your beloved desktop from all of the nastiness

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With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers Read more...

Some members of Congress, backed by financial institutions, are trying to enact legislation that would stop the Treasury Department from adopting regulations to enforce a federal ban on Internet Read more...

Passwords are some of the most important tools for any employee using a computer. And that's everybody. It's important to keep the passwords safe and for the IT staff to educate all workers on how to Read more...

Safari update 3.1.1, which hit the tubes earlier this week, finds Apple addressing a few vulnerabilities in the cross-platform browser. Judging by the looks of it, the fixes address a number of

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Another week, yet another data theft. This time a laptop PC was stolen containing unencrypted, confidential data on March 4 and the event was disclosed after the company began notifying employees Read more...

The tech industry has been analyzing and evaluating the recent theft of 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the Hannaford supermarket chain, a Maine-based grocer. And what they are finding Read more...