Stories by: Todd R. Weiss

Stratton D. Sclavos, CEO and board member of digital infrastructure vendor VeriSign, resigned from the company Tuesday. No reason was given for the resignation.

In a deal that marries one of the IT industry's biggest data storage vendors and one of its best-known security companies, EMC Thursday unveiled plans to acquire RSA Security.

A mass e-mail purportedly from the FBI is circulating online, carrying with it an attachment that contains a variant of the Sober computer virus.

Visa U.S.A. and American Express are terminating their contracts with a credit card transaction processing company that was hit by hacker attacks, potentially exposing 40 million card numbers to online intruders.

Looking beyond traditional IT network security, a new Data Governance Council has been created by IBM and several dozen companies and IT organizations to help corporate technology users look into better protecting their data against hacker attacks and other breaches.

Aiming to reduce credit card fraud, Visa USA has launched a security tool that allows merchants to instantly check transactions in stores or online, so they can identify fraud before a transaction is completed. In an announcement Monday, the credit card company said its new "advanced authorization" system is expected to help prevent an estimated US$164 million in fraud-related losses over the next five years.

Two new incarnations of the W32/Sober computer worm are spreading in large numbers across the Internet since yesterday, infecting home and business PCs around the globe.

Security researchers in Denmark are warning users to disable "active scripting" in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 Web browser to prevent attackers from targeting and taking remote control of their PCs.

Last October's hacker attack on the global root servers that run the core addressing system of the Internet knocked out seven of the 13 servers for a time, but caused nary a problem for most Internet users.