Security

Strong growth in mobile advertising and a "major iPhone security incident" are among the predictions a wireless consulting firm is making for 2008. Google and the upcoming FCC auction of wireless spectrum will also alter the mobile landscape in 2008, predicts inCode. The firm has been making annual ...

Facebook has named three individuals and a Canadian porn company as defendants in a federal lawsuit it filed earlier this year in the Northern District of California, which accused unnamed people and companies of unlawfully accessing its servers. After two Canadian Internet service providers provide...

Despite being given a deadline of Sept. 30, 2007, to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, many Level 1 merchants -- those that process more than 6 million transactions per year -- still do not meet the necessary requirements. In fact, Visa reports that as much as 40 percent ...

The price tag on the largest database breach on record moved higher Friday with TJX agreeing to pay nearly $41 million to settle with credit card companies and banks that were forced to issue new cards to customers of the retailer to prevent or recover fraudulent charges. TJX said it would pay $40.9

The Software as a Service concept is rapidly spreading to touch almost every functional area in the IT stack. The latest example is security vendor Webroot's acquisition of Email Systems, a SaaS security provider. Primarily focused on consumer and SMB markets prior to this merger, Webroot's newly ac...

Companies that fail to prevent data breaches will pay higher costs to repair the damage in 2008, according to a recent report. Data breach incidents will also cost these companies additional revenue from lost business opportunities and reduced customer retention. Data breaches cost companies $197 pe...

It is becoming increasingly unsafe to buy or otherwise conduct business online, according to the ninth annual CyberSource survey on e-commerce fraud. Fraudsters will divert approximately $3.6 billion from U.S. e-commerce in 2007, a 20 percent increase over 2006, based on survey results. Merchants ar...

In an attempt to focus its "strategic direction" on providing Internet infrastructure services, VeriSign is divesting itself of a number of companies it acquired over the years. The divestiture plan, announced at the company's 2007 Analyst Day in New York, is part of a plan to return to basics after...

IBM unveiled a slew of new security products and services and said it would continue to invest heavily in security innovations to address customer needs for a more comprehensive approach to information technology risk. On the heels of a security-related buying spree, Big Blue will spend at least $1....

Many high-technology manufacturers are knowingly putting their intellectual property at risk by collaborating with partners and suppliers with communication tools that they don't consider secure, according to a survey Microsoft commissioned. Microsoft said its survey of high-tech manufacturers found...

IT industry titans including Microsoft and Symantec announced Tuesday at the RSA Conference Europe the formation of the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code, or SAFECode, a non-profit organization solely dedicated to fostering greater trust in information technology products and services ...

New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced Tuesday an agreement that calls for increased enforcement of safeguards aimed at protecting children and adolescents on the site from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment. Under the terms of the settlement, Facebook will be...

Have you seen the "change of plans" commercial? I can't remember what it's an advertisement for, but the ad consists of a series of clips of two businesspeople in a series of airports talking to each other via cell phone. Every time they talk they say things like "change of plans, going to Singapore...

Two men have been successfully prosecuted for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mail messages promoting pornographic Web sites, and reaping millions of dollars as a result. Jeffrey A. Kilbride of Venice, Calif., was sentenced to six years, and James R. Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Ariz., was sen...

This past July, a joint FBI/Chinese effort seized about $500 million worth of counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec software. The seizure and arrests came at a time when our government was pressuring China to do something about its traditional tolerance of software piracy. This was no small seizure and...