A group of security gurus representing IBM convened for the sponsor’s keynote at this week’s Forrester Security Forum in Boston. The lively debate included several key topics on the minds of nearly all information security professionals.

Most businesses are failing to take security on smartphones as seriously as they do on laptops, says Howard Clegg, head of solution sales, Vodafone UK.

Cloud computing is challenging traditional IT security, but could be a key element in enabling a security policy to meet modern threats, says Eric Domage, research manager at IDC EMEA.

Today IBM announced an agreement whereby it will purchase privately held OpenPages of Waltham, Mass., in an effort to expand Big Blue’s business analytics offerings.

Google has confirmed that it has dismissed a systems engineer after he accessed private details from the Gmail, Google Voice and IM accounts of four teenagers.

Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey in North London, were jailed yesterday after an intensive investigation spanning multiple UK law enforcement agencies.

Security firm IronKey has announced that its Enterprise S200 package of USB flash drives and management software is undergoing certification for government use by the CESG, the UK national technical authority for information assurance.

An RFID tracking program, funded by a federal stimulus grant, has drawn the ire of privacy advocates in California, prompting the EFF and ACLU to call the technology “insecure” and “risky”.

Yesterday’s announcement about a redesigned Twitter detailed the micro-blogging service’s intent to upgrade its user panel to include rich media accompaniment. While the move is a bold step in enhancing the Twitter user experience, one security vendor …

It seems that hackers sympathetic to the government cause in Malaysia are silencing websites that criticize the government using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack methodologies.