This article ( Protect passwords? Not if latte is free ) was passed on to me from a colleague who also saw the irony in this. I would say that we're 3 years too late in making 2-factor auth a base part of computing. This makes identity theft almost too...

My group didn't write this... that is, I don't think we did, although this may have come out of our Consumer team. But it is pretty good, basic advice for students that are heading off to school with their new laptops. School is in: 7 computer security...

Awareness is our biggest challenge, but we've been doing a lot to make this happen. At this point the consumers that are walking into these rediculous schemes need to accept that they are, to some extent, the authors of their own misfortune. I like this...

Link . Microsoft Q&A . They provide email customers with security and compliance services (retention, etc.). As IT environments get more complex there are more opportunities for providing this type of service for part of the infrastructure. THis...

Some interesting papers came out of the third annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security. If you're an IEE Computer Society member you can read the full text. Eric Rescorla's article, "Is Finding Security Holes a Good Idea?", provides a statistical...