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Security consultant Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina conducted a live demonstration that saw him exploiting (yet another) flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. In this instance, Medina was able... Read more...

Memory maker Kingston Technologies has admitted that the BlackBox (DTBB), Secure (DTSP) and Elite (DTEP) variants of its DataTraveler family of USB flash drives have security problems that allow... Read more...

Cybercriminals are constantly on the prowl, using any pretense or means to distribute malware and infect computer systems. Company systems are prime targets, and even with all of the controls and... Read more...

Like any complex software or operating system, the Mac OS X is not immune to bugs and flaws. Users on the Mac platform will want to know that Apple has just delivered the sixth Leopard update, which... Read more...

A high school student in the state of New York has been slapped with three felony charges after accessing personnel records on a poorly configured computer without authorization. He was caught after... 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...

> Fired Microsoft CIO gets a new job. Article>... Read more...

ChoicePoint's CIO Darryl Lemecha knows a thing or two about security problems. Three years ago, a thief fraudulently obtained access to the company's customer information and ChoicePoint has since... Read more...

Investing in expensive, complex security tools almost always pays off, but there are some much less expensive, common-sense steps you can take to improve security throughout the enterprise. First,... Read more...

Although passwords are considered by many to be the first frontier in the fight against security problems, some companies are actually abandoning them, considering them too weak a tool to do much... Read more...