Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

Raytheon, a defense and aerospace systems supplier, has deployed solutions from data management provider Initiate Systems.

A San Francisco man accused of hacking into financial institutions and then hawking the stolen data in an online forum was indicted Tuesday on identity-theft charges, authorities said.

Skype is warning its Windows users to keep their guard up against a new virus making the rounds on the peer-to-peer internet telephony service.

Web 2.0 is one of the hottest buzzwords in the internet community, allowing a growing number of users to interact, upload and exchange content, and generally have a lot more fun. But there is a darker side to this brave new internet world, explains Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at Finjan.

Much maligned online media company Zango suffered its second court defeat in a week when a Washington state district judge threw out a lawsuit alleging that software from a leading anti-virus provider illegally blocked Zango programs.

A 40-year-old Illinois man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.

According to the most recent CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 98 percent of companies have firewall defenses in place and 97 percent have anti-virus software. Yet 52 percent of companies reported some type of security breach.

The industry leading IT security monthly, SC Magazine, has relaunched its website at https://www.scmagazineus.com/.