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An RFID Passport to Trouble

Its welcome news that the State Department is now rethinking its ill-advised effort to embed RFID tags in U.S. passports, but by all indications,...

Defining Spyware: A Solution

What is spyware? Many of todays definitions are inconsistent. Meanwhile, other terms such as adware have emerged to describe software that doesnt actually spy...

IT Lobbies for Cyber-Security

The swelling sum spent by the tech industry in Washington results not only from organizations boosting expenditures in recent years but also from the...

Phishing, Malware Declining?

A trio of reports from security vendors and industry groups that monitor malicious code suggests that recent plagues such as phishing attacks and spyware...

ISS Sticks with Its Game Plan

CEO Tom Noonan has been with Internet Security Systems Inc. since the Atlanta companys humble beginnings in 1994 as a startup with one product...

SANS Issues Top 20 Flaws List

The SANS Institute last week issued the first quarterly update to its formerly annual Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities list, which many organizations use...

Schmidt Leaves eBay for Security Startup

Howard Schmidt, perhaps the United States most visible chief security officer, has left online auction house eBay and is donning the jersey of a...

Cisco Security Device Faces Tough Competition

Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to make inroads in security with its new multifunction appliance, but integration and price issues, along with Ciscos late entry...

Trustgenix Eases ID Management

Small and midsize organizations that are required by a larger partner to automate authentication of users when accessing Web applications should consider Trustgenix Inc.s...

Field Guide Is All Over the Place

The first thing to clear up is that Michal Zalewskis latest book, "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect...