Stories about: CeBIT

Security vendors are charging that Microsoft's pending antivirus product and upgrades to its next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, won't be enough to guard against rising threats from viruses and criminal malware.

Security will be a major focus this week at the giant Cebit show in Hanover, Germany. This year, the annual IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security threats facing enterprise networks. Now it's not just data networks that are under attack; VoIP and even paper documents are at risk.

Fujitsu will start selling a biometric security device next month that relies on vein patterns in the hand to verify a user's identity, it said today.

Being the kind of technical person you are, you most likely identify with the old-time hacker ethic and disdain the popular use of the word "hacker" when "cracker" would be more apropos.

Rampant identity theft is eroding users' trust in the Internet, and could threaten to erase some of the progress companies have made in doing business online, according to security experts.

RSA Security is looking into new technologies to secure Web services and protect consumers from identity theft, according to company president and chief executive officer Arthur W. Coviello.