One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to develop the “cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA”...

TechWorld: Netbook users worried about storing sensitive data on their portables are being offered the world's first whole-disk encryption that will run useably on Intel's Atom processor. http://news.techworld.com/security/3212192/intel-atom-netbooks...

For years computer security experts have been preaching that users should never share the same password across their connected lives — at online banking sites, at Amazon, on their Web mail services, even on their cell phones. Apparently, most people ignore...

Microsoft released a template for applying its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) methodology to agile software development projects built with the Visual Studio development environment. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/microsoft-links...

Public Wi-Fi networks such as those in coffee shops and airports present a bigger security threat than ever to computer users because attackers can intercede over wireless to poison users' browser caches in order to present fake Web pages or even steal...

Activists have long grumbled about the privacy implications of the legal backdoors that networking companies like Cisco build into their equipment — functions that let law enforcement quietly track the Internet activities of criminal suspects. Now an...

It’s been three weeks since Google announced that a sophisticated and coordinated hack attack dubbed Operation Aurora recently targeted it and numerous other U.S. companies. Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at...

"We are providing a technical solution that will eliminate the need for a lot of cyber professionals because we just don't have enough of them," Zalmai Azmi says. Can technology replace the IT security professional to safeguard government information...