The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Thursday released new guidelines to help federal agencies comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
Protecting patient privacy during health-related research should be controlled separately from HIPAA regulations, according to a new Institute of Medicine report.
A security services provider for the federal government is notifying employees, former employees and customers that its network was compromised by malware.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has settled a class-action lawsuit resulting from a massive data breach that left 26.5 million active duty troops and veterans open to the risk of identity theft.
The Monday announcement of Internet Explorer (IE) Release Candidate 1 (RC1) will be the last public update of IE8 before the final product is released. RC1 is available for public download in 25 languages, and is billed as Microsoft's most secure browser ever.
