Endpoint/Device Security

An unencrypted laptop containing the personal data of roughly 10,000 medical patients was stolen from a hospital vendor employee's home.

Businesses may no longer be able to turn away employees who want to bring their smartphones and tablets to work, and connect to the corporate network. But is that actually a good thing?

Many of today's applications are designed to work over any port, which increases chances they won't be blocked by firewalls.

This year I’m making just one epic top ten list. After 8 days in the Vegas desert, which included four days of training, two days of Blackhat and three days of Defcon, I learned a lot about a many things, including myself: There are two things wrong, er right, here, John did do a lot […]

In a rare acquisition, Apple has acquired Melbourne, Fla.-based mobile and network security firm AuthenTec for $356 million.

While the town of Brick on the New Jersey shore maintains a 1950s aura, with the growth of digital media, its public school system had to alleviate engorged traffic on its network, while safeguarding data.

A vulnerability found in near field communication could enable attackers to swipe information from end-users by simply brushing their phone with a malicious tag, according to an expert at this year's Black Hat conference.

The computing giant's first-ever foray into speaking at Black Hat about its security didn't reveal much more than what already was known.