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A California man is facing a maximum of 60 years in prison and a $1.75 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to using botnets to steal PC users' personal and financial information.

Unknown phishers are using a widely recognized name, AOL, to disguise a false eBay sign-in site, according to the security research team at Fortinet.

Italian authorities are holding the founder of WabiSabiLabi, an eBay-like online marketplace for buying and selling zero-day vulnerabilities.

Day-to-day worries about spyware and bots are the No. 1 security concern of IT professionals working for the agencies of the federal government, according to a study released today by Cisco Systems.

Email is being supplemented with real-time conversations enabled through IM and web-based applications such as blogs, wikis and webmail. Developers continue to create new enterprise applications that integrate with Facebook. It's clear that web 2.0 has officially entered the workplace.

As biometric technologies gain further acceptance, one retailer fights insider theft with fingerprint readers, reports Jim Carr.

Karl Hart is one ISO who sees organizations saving big bucks by virtualizing their data centers, but risks loom, reports Dan Kaplan.

The latest happenings in the boardrooms of the IT security world.