• Nation's critical infrastructure cyber defenses weak, DHS tells hearing

  By John P. Mello | 17 May, 2013 17:51

  Experts criticize government's threat sharing, noting it wants the private sector to be generous but it's stingy with the private sector

• Big Data Investigations: Opportunity and Risk

  By Taylor Armerding | 17 May, 2013 13:01

  Experts say large-scale security analytics can cut through the noise to find key intelligence. But connecting the dots can lead to legal trouble

• Experts ding DHS vulnerability sharing plan as too limited

  By Antone Gonsalves | 17 May, 2013 13:00

  Without universally availability, plan could miss smaller businesses hackers could use as an entry point to critical infrastructure companies

• Booming mobile industry spawning global criminal marketplace

  By John P. Mello | 16 May, 2013 13:02

  In an alarming 'post-PC' era alert, working group says criminal infrastructure created much faster than it was for PC fraud

• Researchers develop industrial systems that watch for security breaches

  By Antone Gonsalves | 15 May, 2013 21:35

  With the new networking method, devices are able spot a problem unit and then isolate it from the network before it can do any damage

• Security Manager's Journal: A little housecleaning

  By Mathias Thurman | 22 April, 2013 10:04

  Our manager finds the time and opportunity to cross a few nagging items off of his to-do list.

• Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

  By Stacy Collett | 25 March, 2013 10:17

  Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes.

• Retailer hauls Visa to court over $13.3M fine for payment card data breach

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 14 March, 2013 00:11

  Genesco, a specialty retailer of footwear, sports apparel and related accessories has sued Visa USA for $13.3 million in fines that were assessed against the company after a credit card data breach in 2010.

• China biggest, but not the only country engaged in cyberespionage

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 February, 2013 11:09

  China is by far the most aggressive, but not the only, country attempting the sort of extensive cyberespionage described in security firm Mandiant's dramatic report, released this week.

• When in China, don't leave your laptop alone

  By Bob Violino | 04 December, 2012 11:11

  If you travel to China or Russia, assume government or industry spooks will steal your data and install spyware. Here's how to thwart them

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