Security giant McAfee announced today that it has fired its president, and its chairman and CEO has retired following an internal investigation that revealed stock option improprieties.
San Francisco. Houston. Philadelphia. Annapolis. Step into any of these cities in the near future and you should be able to check your email, chat with friends, or surf the web wirelessly. But how safe will your experience be with municipal wireless local-access networks (WLANs) as you connect to the web in a car, office building or the middle of a park?
As IT budgets continue to be squeezed and organizations struggle to find new ways to grow and innovate, outsourcing moves higher on the CIO's "to do" list. The privacy and security implications of outsourcing relationships are a growing concern for many organizations. Most of this discussion on this topic has focused on the transfer and handling of personal data, but one area that has not been well documented is web application development.
Poor online behavior by users of social networking sites could open the door for malware and identity theft, both at home and on the job, a new study reveals.
Updating to the latest version of Skype for Mac OS X solves a "highly critical" vulnerability that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code, vulnerability monitoring firm Secunia said Monday in an advisory.
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