Stories by: Bob Francis

There I was, running late to the Black Hat conference because of the weather , riding the long escalator to the third floor of Caesar's Palace in Vegas when I heard someone at the top of the stairs yell to someone behind me on the escalator.

As security personnel met at this week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, there was easy money to be made at the security vulnerability table.

Computer security can be a difficult problem to get a handle on, so sometimes it takes some creative thinking. I would say it involves "thinking outside the box," but that's a little too trite and overused.

Database security is simple and can be covered in three words: encrypt, encrypt encrypt, reports Bob Francis

Interop may be a networking show, but security came in a close second at last week's event.

Interop, formerly Networld+Interop, begins this week, and along with the new name comes a flurry of announcements from vendors aiming to solve various networking security issues.

To judge from the number of announcements made at this week's RSA Conference, IT managers may need a defense against security software and hardware salespeople.

Online phishing schemes increased significantly in October as financial institutions struggled to combat attempts to steal private account information from online consumers, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

Four security software rivals are have teamed up to set a baseline standard for application security firewalls, challenging others in the industry to join them.