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Halfway through a meeting led by one hospital's IT security team, the doctors finally got a break to stretch their legs and get coffee. While they were gone, some of [...]

IN FEBRUARY, ARMED ROBBERS kidnapped the manager of a security depot in England along with his wife and son. The robbers threatened to kill them if the manager didn't cooperate. [...]

CONCERNS OVER PRIVACY raised as a result of advancements in technology have joined religion and politics in the pantheon of discussion topics guaranteed to result in an argument, with deeply [...]

A series of devastating explosions ripped through the tropical paradise of Bali late last year, leaving more than two dozen people dead and more than 100 injured, most of them [...]

In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction novel, robots are hardwired with three rules: They cannot harm humans either through action or inaction; they must obey orders from their human [...]

BUSINESS TRAVEL IS INTEGRAL to the bottom line for most large companies. As a result, the number of business trips taken by U.S. workers alone tops 237 million annually. Travelers [...]

EVERY 12 TO 18 MONTHS, a financial institution must be prepared to have its systems audited by the appropriate regulatory agency. Financial institutions must be prepared to pass these detailed [...]

Going wireless has so far meant trading in desk phones for cell phones and desktops for laptops. It hasn't meant going completely wireless any more than the paperless office has [...]

Mark Twain once famously quipped that rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated. Turn that joke on its head to get an idea of the hype surrounding smart-card and biometric [...]

THE NEXT TIME you check your account balance at your bank's Web site, stop for a moment and consider who created and coded the software application that will validate your [...]

On Super Bowl Sunday last year, millions of Americans sat in front of their televisions to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Oakland Raiders. But some four dozen [...]

Anyone who has ever spilled coffee on his or her computer keyboard knows the damage that liquid can do to electronics. Multiplying that damage by thousands--or millions--of dollars provides an [...]

WORKING IN HIS OFFICE IN TORONTO, Mark Fabro needs to download a recent white paper written by a government law enforcement officer who specializes in fighting cybercrime. Fabro, chief security [...]

It's Monday morning, and a hectic week lies ahead. You can't afford to waste any time. Nothing new in that. But added to the crush of real business these days [...]

If current antivirus products were truly effective, businesses would be winning the war on computer viruses. A 2003 survey conducted by the FBI and the Computer Security Institute found that [...]

The Smithsonian Institution, based in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's largest museum and research organizations, with operations stretching from Panama and Hawaii to New York City. Its numerous [...]

New Orleans, famed for its Mardi Gras festival--which draws 1.5 million revelers--is also home to five major universities, nuclear power plants, petroleum facilities and refineries, chemical plants, and seaports, all [...]

Businesses that handle sensitive healthcare data have two years to set up systems to protect the data that travels over the Internet if they are to be in compliance with [...]

It was 10:30 in the morning when a message popped up on the computer screen of a 13-year-old girl in Northern California. The instant message was unsolicited, meaning the alleged [...]

Most enterprises today rely on networks to operate; it's a serious problem when those systems go down and data is lost or rendered unavailable. Even a few minutes of downtime [...]

The scenarios were frightening. Cyberterrorists breaking into the systems that control hydroelectric dams and flooding towns. Hackers shutting down telephone systems or air traffic control systems. Unstoppable computer viruses shutting [...]

Although security departments may be finding it easier to get funds since September 11, they cannot afford to forget the fundamentals of budgeting. That means they still have to get [...]

In Star Wars, the forces of good and evil wage battle against one another, but ironically both draw their strength from the same source: The Force. The concept of a [...]

'I HATE BEING LAUGHED AT. But they won't laugh after they're scraping parts of their parents, sisters, brothers, and friends from the wall of my hate.' These words were written [...]

A NEWLY RELEASED STUDY shows that having an enterprisewide view of risk rather than an asset-based view helps build a stronger security posture for an organization. The study shows that [...]

For most companies, the idea of a paperless office is nothing more than a dream. For Adobe Systems, the world's second-largest software company, it's a dream that is part of [...]

The Federal Computer Incident Response Center (FedCIRC) has released a paper addressing defensive maneuvers against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The recommendations are applicable both before and during an [...]

A three-part training video titled 'Cyber Crime Fighting' is now available from the National Cybercrime Training Partnership {NCTP), which provides assistance in training law enforcement to investigate high-tech crimes. The [...]

Attorney General John Ashcroft recently announced the creation of to teams that will he dedicated to fighting cyber-crime. The teams, called Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property units, or CHIPs, will [...]

A Web site for the Seminole County, Florida, Sheriff's Office is helping law enforcement authorities around the world find information about known and convicted criminals. It also provides an extensive [...]

Everyone knows that the data on a laptop is often far more valuable than the hardware, but few know how to protect that data. The news that as many as [...]

The Justice Department has provided grants totaling more than $16 million to 26 states in an effort to build more efficient ways to share information across jurisdictional lines and among [...]

The European Commission has reversed its decision not to accept comments from industry and consumer groups on the proposal known as Rome II, which would govern cross-border Internet commerce in [...]

Computer security experts at Interpol have created a report called IT Security and Crime Prevention Methods: Explanations, which outlines the threats posed by cybeicriminals and provides a comprehensive list of [...]

As cybercrime becomes more widespread and complex, investigating it becomes more difficult as well. A new manual from the National Coalition for the Prevention of Economic Crime (CPEC) will make [...]

An integrated security system helped this hospital to lock down without becoming inhospitable. IT WAS A TYPICAL weekend at Fort Lauderdale's 587-bed Holy Cross Hospital. There were the usual comings [...]

Five Democratic Congressmen recently introduced a resolution recognizing the importance of an online privacy standard called P3P, or the Platform for Privacy Preferences. P3P is 'an immediate way to address [...]

A recent worm called Choke proved that even the strongest anti-virus software monitoring a company's gateway is powerless if workers are exposing the network to risks using instant message services. [...]

MasterCard International recently unveiled the Site Data Protection Service (SDP), a comprehensive set of services that can help even the least computer-savvy merchants harden their Web sites against cyber-attacks. The [...]

Oil and natural gas companies are not adequately prepared to cope with cyber-disruptions, according to a new report to the Secretary of Energy by the National Petroleum Council (NPC). While [...]

An international cybercrime treaty has pleased those fighting against copyright infringement but has concerned business groups and privacy advocates. After four years and 27 drafts, the European Committee on Crime [...]

A TELEPHONE CABLE IS MISTAKENLY CUT, silencing thousands of telephones. A minor software glitch costs an online auction site billions of dollars in market value. A denial of service attack [...]

Law enforcement's ability to fight cybercrime is hindered by several factors, including the lack of standards for computer forensics, a discipline still in its infancy, according to Ronald R. Stevens, [...]

How prevalent are Internet denial of service attacks? The answer is frightening: In three weeks, researchers observed more than 12,000 attacks directed against more than 5,000 distinct Internet protocol (IP) [...]

There has been no shortage of solutions offered to the problem of credit card fraud, from smart-chip cards to the detailed best practices that Visa merchants are required to follow. [...]

The Commonly Accepted Security Practices and Recommendations Project aims to use information security experts to create a series of best practices. Yet another group of security professionals has formed a [...]

Three years after the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) was created, it is 'often not able to provide timely information on changes in threat conditions or warnings of imminent attacks,' [...]

A new group within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been created to assist federal agencies with protecting information systems, fixing vulnerabilities, and improving critical infrastructure protection. [...]

New worms aimed at the Linux operating system have become more malicious of late, opening backdoors so that anyone can gain root access to the system. What noodle can wriggle [...]

Certificate authority VeriSign announced in March that it had erroneously issued two digital certificates to someone posing as a Microsoft employee almost two months earlier. VeriSign attributed the issuance to [...]