The year's most important information security event, RSA Conference 2008, will attract over 17,000 of the best and brightest in the field to discuss IT security's most important issues.
Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has called for a new law allowing state residents to remove their personal information from internet phone directories and other sites that maintain and distribute records at no cost or for a fee.
A U.S-based Chinese news website which hosts hundreds of blogs - outlets for repressed political and social commentary in China - is struggling to reactivate the blogs after suffering a DoS bombardment that crashed Boxun.com/blogs on Dec. 24.
Cyberattackers are exploiting the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to spread malware, according to researchers at numerous anti-virus vendors.
McAfee, in a filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission, has restated a decade of earnings after the company revealed last year that an internal investigation turned up stock option improprieties.
In the final draft of its upcoming security guidelines for protecting federal information systems, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that federal agencies conduct regular penetration tests to determine whether their networks can be breached.
An initiative including several major IT security companies will try to set the bar for security practices applied to electronic-protected health information (EPHI) in an effort to level the playing field between companies sharing sensitive data.
In its inaugural report on the overall state of internet security, Cisco is predicting bigger attacks in 2008 from the Storm botnet as its creators let criminals buy the use of Storm's millions of zombie computers to launch massive spam or DoS attacks.
A lawmaker has introduced new legislation that would codify two federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memos that order government to institute an array of information security safeguards.
Anti-virus vendor Grisoft has filed subpoenas requesting that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo provide it with the identities of advertisers it claims are fraudulently promoting the company's products via sponsored text ads on search engines.
The year's most important information security event, RSA Conference 2008, will attract over 17,000 of the best and brightest in the field to discuss IT security's most important issues.
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