Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:21 PM/CST
Unsurprisingly, DigiNotar has filed for bankruptcy. After major Web browsers and other software companies revoked the certificate authority's keys, it's days were numbered.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 2:45 PM/CST
Sam Chihlung Yin was indicted for doing something people people generally only joke about: retaliating against a former employer by hacking into the network. His IT attack also exposed serious flaws in Gucci America's IT policies.
Monday, October 18, 2010 10:19 PM/CST
Security researchers at Stonesoft say sophisticated tactics by attackers are challenging IPS technology.
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:49 PM/CST
A database administrator was sentenced to a year in prison for hacking into a company's network after he was fired.
Monday, August 10, 2009 10:01 PM/CST
Spam seemingly only changes by returning to its roots, and ebbing its volumes ever upwards, no matter what we do about it.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:11 PM/CST
Aruba Networks released statistics on how the Wi-Fi network it provided fared at the Black Hat security conference last week. The news was mixed.
Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:44 AM/CST
At least one respected security researcher believes that Windows 7 should prove effective at stemming some forms of electronic attack.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:52 PM/CST
Trojan outbreaks are evading signature-based AV systems in larger numbers again, according to a new research report.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:06 PM/CST
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in IT security, that sometimes is the end user. A study by the Ponemon Institute has found that nearly half of those surveyed said security policies at their company were largely ignored.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:20 PM/CST
Aetna, one of the world's largest health insurance providers, had to do something special for its customers following a security "oops" reported May 26 involving its Website. It turns out that a number of human resource-related e-mails containing important personal...