Thu, November 05, 2009 - OWASP will host its 2009 AppSec DC conference next week, hoping to arm IT security practitioners with knowledge to improve application security. For a taste of what to expect, organization member Matt Fisher discusses what's wrong with app security today and six ways to make it better.
Mon, November 02, 2009 - Jimmy Kuo, principal architect for Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, has high hopes that Windows 7 security features will help reverse attack trends identified in the seventh volume of the software giant's Security Intelligence Report.
Fri, October 23, 2009 - It's become an all-too-common scam: A legitimate Web site pops up a window that looks just like a real security warning. It says there's something wrong with the computer, and click here to fix it. A few clicks later, the victim is paying out $40 for some bogus software, called rogue antivirus.
Wed, October 21, 2009 - One of the cornerstones of the scientific method is measurability: a focus on defining the ways of counting or measuring aspects of reality that we hope will be strongly associated with the phenomena we are trying to understand.
Wed, September 23, 2009 - Fortify Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Brian Chess made a stir last year when he predicted -- incorrectly, so far -- that penetration testing would be a dead art in 2009. Among those who shrugged off the suggestion was Robert Maley, CISO for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Thu, September 17, 2009 - In an exclusive interview, the Internet 'father' explains how he helped commercialize the Web and what he's doing now at Google.
Wed, August 12, 2009 - For Heartland Payment Systems Inc. CEO Robert Carr, the year did not start off well, to say the least.
Fri, July 17, 2009 - They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.
Fri, July 03, 2009 - Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to securing these services and the information they handle. That was the finding of a recent study commissioned by RSA Security.
Thu, June 25, 2009 - CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an aspiring enterprise infrastructure vendor.
If you're an IT leader, you want answers on how to keep your networks safe while still keeping costs under control. Join Kevin Mitnick along with security experts from Google and Qualys in this 45-min. discussion focused on new network and email security techniques being delivered in the cloud.
