Civil liberties groups are happy that SOPA has, at least temporarily, gone away; and that ACTA seems to be running into problems in some European countries. But given recent LEA takedowns, are these new laws even necessary?

Anonymous has had at least one beneficial effect: top management at companies are starting to pay attention to information security, judged Grady Summers, vice president at MANDIANT, who participated in a Wednesday panel discussion on hacktivism at the…

Software liability laws are needed to hold software companies accountable for making faulty products, argued Bruce Schneier, chief technology security officer with BT during a pro-con debate held Wednesday at the RSA Conference.

At the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, February 29, Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer discuss Schneier’s latest book and how to enable the trust that society needs to thrive.

Three-quarters of IT professionals believe that personally owned mobile devices put their organizations at risk and only 39% have the necessary security controls to address the risk posed by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon, according to a W…

A majority of information security professionals are employing risky methods to control access to enterprise servers, according to a survey by Fox Technologies and Echelon One.

The last week has seen multiple XSS vulnerabilities found almost anywhere and everywhere on the internet, lending early weight to predictions for 2012.

For the 12th consecutive year the FTC has revealed that identity theft tops the list of consumer complaints received: 15% of 1.8 million complaints in 2011.

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, February 28 2012, Joyce Brocaglia, founder of the Executive Women’s Foundation, hosted a session on the logistics and impact of the cyber security school challenge – a collaborative outreach program that helps ed…

In his session at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, February 28th 2012, Bruce Schneier listed what he perceives to be the three biggest risks to information security right now: The rise of big data; ill-conceived law enforcement regulations; and the…