Tom Gillis, GM of Cisco's security technology business unit, details the challenges security professional face as new technologies find their way into organizations - like it or not

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council Tuesday announced it will begin moving to a three-year cycle related to the main technical standards it issues for protection of sensitive payment-card information, allowing merchants and others more time to adopt them.

Three out of four companies will soon face more security risks because they continue to run the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Worried about how to link IT networks with business partners without getting burned? Forrester analyst Usman Sindhu offers a 4-step strategy to ensure trust.

If you can't bear to be parted from your email inbox when you venture abroad, it's important to ensure that the wireless connection you're using to get online is secure.

The involvement of the U.S. Department of Justice in a whistleblower case against Oracle Corp. alleging that the company overcharged customers, significantly raises the legal stakes for the company.

Google's inadvertent collection of personal data provides yet another lesson in privacy protection.

New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet.

Evolutionary IT's Joseph Guarino explains how to achieve network security the open way (Third in a series on open-source security solutions)

In May, Web security consultant George Deglin discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that involved Facebook's controversial Instant Personalization feature. The exploit ran on Yelp, one of the three sites that Facebook had selected to test Instant Personalization.