Sue Marquette Poremba

A recent U.S. Department of Justice survey indicates that the majority of American businesses have detected one or more cyberattacks.

Microsoft announced that it would make available three Security Development Lifecycle programs and tools to help the industry improve security and privacy technology.

Apple released a security update for its Mac OS X to fix several security issues, most notably for the notorious DNS cache poisoning problem and a vulnerability within PostScript font names.

Spammers are using thousands of Google Groups to spread unwanted email and malware.

Mozilla, joining Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's nascent Chrome, plan to add a private browsing mode when it releases Firefox 3.1.

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate aimed at reducing intellectual property theft around the world.

A new standard spells out detailed controls for managing health information security.

Coming soon: An assemblage of consensus-based IT security metrics, developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS).

The Internal Revenue Service found 1,811 unauthorized web servers connected to its network.

The number of computers infected with botnets has quadrupled during the last three months.