Security

In the past few months, Research In Motion, the creator of the BlackBerry, has been under pressure by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, and other countries to provide greater access to the encrypted information sent by its devices. Each country threatened to ban BlackBerr...

Several years ago, I discovered Nirvana: the ability to point and click on a website and have pretty much anything I wanted shipped right to my door, sometimes at a cheaper price than at any store in my city. What bliss! Ah -- in the good ole days of online shopping, we were so happily ignorant. Bac...

HP has announced it is acquiring security-software maker ArcSight for $1.5 billion. It is the second major acquisition the company has made since the departure of its CEO Mark Hurd last month. It appears HP might have agreed to pay too much for the company, which makes corporate network security mon...

Consolidation is a common theme in the IT sector, with IBM's purchase of Unica, Dell and HP's pursuit of 3PAR, and Intel's planned acquisition of security specialist McAfee standing as the most recent moves. Do such deals have anything in common? Sometimes. Large IT vendors tend to grow in two way...

Chipmaker Intel on Thursday announced that it will acquire computer security vendor McAfee for about $7.8 billion. The deal will create a behemoth that may improve the semiconductor's position in the burgeoning mobile and cloud computing fields. "Security now joins our more well-known strategic focu...

While financial cybercrime against card-not-present retailers has many forms, "friendly fraud" has emerged as a particularly painful thorn in the side of e-commerce merchants. Defined as a situation in which a customer disputes a legitimate credit card transaction, falsely claiming fraud or non-del...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Sunday that BlackBerry Messenger, BlackBerry E-mail and BlackBerry Web browsing services will be suspended in the UAE as of October 11. "BlackBerry data is immediately exported offshore, where it is managed by a foreign, commercial organization," the federation...

It's likely not illegal, and it may not even be improper, but the fact that security consultant Ron Bowes gathered and aggregated the information from about 100 million Facebook profiles has created quite a stir. Bowes created his data torrent to aid the development of a password-cracking-protection...

Just how secure is your website? How tough is your webhosting provider's backbone? How vulnerable are you to cyberattacks like those that played havoc with Facebook and other sites in the past -- the victims of a rogue blogger? While no site is absolutely safe from assault, it pays to be vigilant ...

If I wanted to hack your e-commerce business, I'd have your help. It's a fact that no one runs a business from one location (or one computer) anymore. In today's world, work gets done everywhere -- in offices, in homes, in hotels, at airports, and while sipping mocha and siphoning Internet connectiv...

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T. Victims apparently include at least one member of the U.S. President Barack Obama's cabinet, heads of large corporations and other promi...

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T. Victims apparently include at least one member of the U.S. President Barack Obama's cabinet, heads of large corporations and other promi...

The email addresses and device IDs of more than 100,000 owners of 3G-enabled iPads have been exposed in a security breach, according to wireless provider AT&T. Victims apparently include at least one member of the U.S. President Barack Obama's cabinet, heads of large corporations and other promi...

Most security companies are big fans of the doom-and-gloom scenario of information security. However, when it comes down to brass tacks, security is nothing more than a business function -- specifically, a business function of measuring and mitigating risk. The key motivator behind information secur...

Things are looking bleak for McAfee after the security software company sent a bad virus definition to its users Wednesday. The file was created to combat a new threat, but once it was distributed, it caused thousands of PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 3 worldwide to crash. Many felt McAfee did ...