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A recent survey found that more than 40 percent of organizations are unsure how often they are the target of advanced network attacks, and 50 percent take a month or more to detect these attacks. To Read more...

A Firefox add-on called "Firesheep" was released by a freelance web application developer over the weekend. Written by Eric Butler, it was specifically designed to demonstrate the vulnerability of Read more...

The subject of software security has never been particularly uplifting, but it seems to be getting more depressing as software underpins more and more aspects of our lives. Managing routine Read more...

This week, we report on two disturbing pieces of news. The first is the theft of a laptop containing data on 800,000 American doctors. We also report the stunning news that PayChoice, a large 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...

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...