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Somali pirates who brazenly attacked container ships in the Indian Ocean have garnered a lot of recent attention. But for companies that source products from Chinese manufacturing partners, there are even greater and longer-term business risks due to pirating attacks on companies' intellectual property and supply chains.

For those of us who make our living behind a keyboard in IT, it's hard to imagine a more time-tested vulnerability than the end-user. Armed with network access, these IT viruses wreak havoc nearly everywhere you look -- havoc borne of tech idiocy.

Wireless networks carry risks, but understanding what you need from your network - and what you don't - will help you limit those risks and gain benefits from the popular technology

Keeping products in motion is key to protecting your global supply chain. Far from dragging down the process, security initiatives help companies pick up the pace

Digital crime and online security threats will skyrocket in 2005 as a result of the rapid growth in portable Internet and mobile technology, and the technology industry will see a boom in the development of nanotechnology and fuel cell batteries Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predicted this week.

The mobile work force is here. Wireless is here. IT managers who do not start taking proactive steps now, towards managing what is going to become an increasingly complex environment, will soon have to deal with a headache of mammoth proportions.

Although still in its early research stage, RSA Security demonstrated a prototype of the RSA Blocker Tag technology at its data security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to the company, when completed, the tag will enforce consumer privacy when dealing with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.

Top infosecurity pros offer 5 strategies for keeping watch over e-commerce risk.