Security features that Apple Inc. added to Leopard look great on paper, but in practice most are half-baked or useless, experts said today. And none of those features, good or bad, will make a whit of ...

Apple’s platforms may be more secure by design than others, but that doesn’t make them invulnerable to attack. That’s why every user should install the company’s latest security patch — it fixes a ...

Every security system, in the end, depends on people. Ideally, programs could be written with restricted privileges for operators so they would pose no threat – but I doubt it would work in practice.

How much do cyberattacks cost? Recently, we reported on Clorox suing Cognizant for $380 million over alleged helpdesk failures during a cyberattack. We described how the complaint, filed in a ...

Jaikumar Vijayan is a freelance technology writer specializing in computer security and privacy topics. He writes for CSO Online, Dark Reading and Security Boulevard, among other outlets. He has also ...

New cybersecurity standards proposed by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) to protect the nation’s power infrastructure are not broad enough and fail to cover a significant number of ...

During the past few weeks, I’ve dedicated a significant amount of time to creating wireless LAN (WLAN) policies and standards. A WLAN site survey I conducted a few weeks ago convinced me to accelerate ...

RANCHO MIRAGE, CALIF. — Senior executives at many companies remain largely unaware of important IT security and data-privacy challenges facing their organizations, according to members of a panel that ...

My fellow Android phone-owners, start your feature-seeking engines: Some significant new security strengtheners on are their way to your device(s) — and quite possibly already there and just waiting ...

Security is the new Y2k. Oh, the mapping isn’t exact. With Y2k, there was an immovable deadline and a huge but finite number of problems to fix. With security, there’s no zero hour, and the number of ...

It’s no secret that corporate IT systems are constantly threatened by hacker attacks and virus outbreaks. But only recently have companies come to realize the potential dollar costs of security lapses ...

It’s great to be a chief security officer in 2004. Chief information security officers saw the highest average pay raise of any job title at 6%, according to Computerworld‘s 18th Annual Salary Survey.