Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

A hacker using the alias "Mustlive" announced this week that June will feature the next month-long vulnerability disclosure project, this one dedicated to search engine bugs.

Symantec has filed suit against eight companies accused of being software pirates, seeking a total of more than $55 million in damages.

A Google white paper analyzing web-based malware has reported that nearly a half-million URLs contain malicious code.

Electronic discovery (e-discovery) is a topic generally limited to legal circles. Although recent case law and the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) are aimed squarely at judges and lawyers, both have profound implications for IT and security organizations, given the significant amount of electronically stored information (ESI) that is relevant for court cases.

IT solutions giant Verizon Business today announced plans to acquire Cybertrust, a purchase certain to create the world's largest managed security services provider.

Companies working within the pharmaceutical industry are extremely secretive with their intellectual property. This can make any attempt to share information, particularly patient data, difficult.

Imagining what a high-tech security research center looks like might trigger for some people a vision of a huge laboratory with teams of scientists working diligently to create the next firewall or encryption device. That may be the right image for movies — or even accurate for many organizations these last few decades — but it is not the case for most of today's information security technology developers.