Howard Schmidt, president and CEO of the Information Security Forum (ISF) was appointed White House Cybersecurity Coordinator just before the Holidays.

The days when China was a primary source of spam are drawing to close, now that the Chinese Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) has implemented draconian new rules on domain name registration procedures.

In a move that will surprise its reseller channel, Sun Microsystems has unveiled a portfolio of open source applications for its clients that are looking for secure cloud computing options.

Websense Security Labs’s ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that Google top searches on ‘Brittany Murphy death’ returns rogue anti-virus websites.

In a move that will be monitored closely by the Gary McKinnon legal team, lawyers acting for Albert Gonzalez – the alleged mastermind behind the hacking of TJX Group’s credit card systems around two years ago – are claiming their client has Asperger’s …

Microsoft’s popular UK chief cybersecurity adviser is returning to his native America after a total of 10 years in the UK, four and half of those years with Microsoft. The move is for personal reasons.

With the Christmas and New Year holidays looming, Courion Corporation, the access governance and compliance specialist, has released `five golden rules’ – a set of best-practice-based guidelines for companies looking to reduce the security risk posed b…

Unified threat management vendor WatchGuard Technologies has enhanced its managed security offering with its Managed Security Services Program (MSSP).

An identity thief who used victims’ credentials to register credit cards fraudulently was sentenced to more than nine years in prison wihout parole late last week.

In its year-end report on the state of IT security, Computer Associates (CA) has noted that fake security software (fakeware), poisoned search engine results and social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and Myspace, were the major information sec…