Security

IBM this week announced an agreement to acquire Consul Risk Management, a provider of identity access monitoring software that works across mainframe and distributed environments. When the acquisition closes sometime during Q1 2007, the software will be part of IBM's Tivoli software unit, complement...

Online securities trading was a big fad a few years ago, but some of the major players disappeared from the scene after the dot-com fallout. However, many do-it-from-home traders cannot resist the Internet's speed and convenience, and there are still plenty of firms to accommodate them. Although som...

Concerns have been growing that voting machine mishaps might undermine the results of the upcoming Congressional elections -- among the most bitterly fought in recent memory -- either through glitches in the new technology or through outright fraud. The latest worry? The ownership of Boca Raton, Fl...

Government officials have launched investigations into fraud cases that are costing electronic brokerages millions of dollars. Two of the largest e-brokerages are reporting computer hacking incidents in which criminals apparently manipulated client accounts at TD Ameritrade and E-Trade Financial. TD...

BT Group said Wednesday it would acquire managed security services firm Counterpane Internet Security in a move that could help the former national phone company of the UK advance its transformation into a global telecom services and network firm. BT did not disclose the price it paid for the privat...

Third party antivirus vendors are becoming increasingly convinced that Microsoft's rigorous security protocols for its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system are in effect a back-door effort to gain market share in the computer security space. Symantec -- and more recently, McAfee -- have charg...

Biometric security provider UPEK announced on Monday a partnership with Internet security firm Pay By Touch to bring an integrated biometric security service called "TrueMe" to online transactions. UPEK makes a fingerprint reader that is preinstalled in some laptops and is also available on separate...

MX Logic released on Monday a new managed security product giving small to medium-sized businesses new options in fortifying their computers against spyware, spam and viruses. These computer-intrusion threats top the list of SMB concerns, driving 2006 IT security spending for SMBs to more than US$10...

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse says its running tally of data breaches shows nearly 94 million instances of data being exposed in less than two years of tracking such events, a veritable red flag of private information at risk. The PRC said its tally shows the total number of records containing se...

It used to be that armed guards, locked file cabinets and vaults were the tools for securing currency, as businesses operated in a physical world. Today, information is the currency of the global economy, as consumers pay through electronic card swipes, employees are paid through direct deposit, and...

A proposed treaty that would expand the rights of broadcasters over what they deliver to consumers cleared a significant hurdle last week at a meeting of an international copyright panel. The panel -- the Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organiza...

Intel and security vendor Check Point Software Technologies are launching a jointly developed solution they say maximizes Intel chips to produce faster data security products and eliminates bottlenecks that occur when massive amounts of data are filtered through slower processors. The companies said...

Hardly a week passes without a report of consumer or company data being compromised. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer organization, more than 90 million data records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches since February ...

Sears and Intel crowned a list of top performing Web sites released Monday by the Customer Respect Group, an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers. The annual report, now in its fifth year, analyzed the Web sites of all Fortune 100 c...

These days it seems that science fact is at least as amazing as science fiction. In a few short generations, actual developments in the real world of computing and information systems, biotechnology, nanotechnology and robotics have surpassed the imaginary leaps of early sci-fi authors such as Jules...