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First look: Norton's 2012 desktop, smartphone security push
Norton today released an updated version of its Norton 360 desktop and mobile security software, while also rolling out a new licensing arrangement for combined PC, Mac and Android use. Read More

13 security myths
Security experts hammer on security ideas they say are just "myths" Read More

Crypto experts analyze millions of X.509 certificates, call RSA crypto flawed
Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public-key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys. Read More

Netflix settles privacy-violations lawsuit for $9 million
Video service Netflix has disclosed it paid out $9 million last year to settle a class-action lawsuit that it violated privacy by keeping records on what subscribers watched two years after customers had canceled their plans. Read More

Romanian police arrest alleged hacker in Pentagon, NASA breaches
Razvan Manole Cernaianu is accused of revealing security holes and publishing information about SQL injection vulnerabilities in those agencies. Read More

Nortel executives knew of data breach, chose to do nothing
The data breach into Nortel's data systems was known to company executives, including the CEO, for over a decade, but the company refused to take steps to prevent data loss. Read More

Startup Porticor launches with encryption technology for cloud computing
Israel-based startup Porticor launches this week with technology aimed at giving enterprises a way to encrypt data held in cloud computing services, including those from Amazon and Rackspace. Read More

Startup with heavy Russian connections offers crypto authentication service
Can a security startup based in Bedford, N.H., which relies on Russian cryptography expertise from Moscow, bring about a revolution in the way that users authenticate to gain access to websites today and secure data? Read More

Four keys to successful BYOD
The bring your own device (BYOD) movement formally advocates use of personal equipment for work and obligates IT to ensure jobs can be performed with an acceptable level of security, but how can risks be addressed given the range of devices used and the fact that you lack control of the end point? Read More

H.R. 1981, the jaws of law will eat your Internet rights
Like the great white in Jaws there's proposed legislation about to strike and it's your liberties that will have a chunk missing Read More

Slideshow: 15 worst data breaches
Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Read More

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RSA brushes off crypto research findings that its algorithm is flawed
After having its flagship RSA crypto system called flawed this week by prominent researchers in a paper they made available online, EMC's RSA security division struck back by saying the paper's results don't indicate a fundamental flaw in the RSA algorithm but more likely a problem with implementing it. Read More

IT takes wait-and-hope approach to Apple Mac Mountain Lion
Apple OS X Mountain Lion for Macs promises both benefits and costs for IT groups. Mac experts are looking forward to delving into the preview release and hoping for some Apple tools to support deployments later this year. Read More

The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st Century
Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of LinkedIn's Information Security Community, who provided nominations for the list. Read More

Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric
R.K. Anand, executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Networks' Data Center Business Unit, was employee No. 12 of the network startup back in 1996, leaving a job as a microprocessor designer at Sun Microsystems. Years later he left Juniper for a brief stint at another startup, but came back to help finalize the company's QFabric product and get it out the door. QFabric began shipping in September 2011. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Anand at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., for a deep dive on the company's answer to high-end data center demands. Read More

Intellectual Ventures sues AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile
Intellectual Ventures, a self-described defender of inventors that is more commonly known as the patent troll founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, today filed suit against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Read More

TechAmerica Foundation: Governments need to get into the cloud
The cloud is being pitched as the best way to do more with less, but government agencies are slow to modernize, California official stresses Read More

Congress won't kill off new unlicensed spectrum after all
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers today touted a new agreement that would preserve the Federal Communications Commission's ability to open up new unlicensed spectrum. Read More

Roche to move 90,000 employees to Google Apps
Health care and pharmaceutical company Roche Group will standardize its email and calendaring system on Google Apps for about 90,000 employees worldwide, the companies announced on Thursday. Read More

Kindle Fire shipments can't hold candle to iPad, says iSuppli
The Kindle Fire has been the most successful Android tablet to date but that doesn't mean its flame is burning anywhere near as bright as the iPad's Read More

Exactly what is Homeland Security watching for on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?
The idea that any number of federal institutions are watching your every move on social networks like Facebook, Twitter is unnerving at best. The Department of Homeland Security is one of those agencies and today it testified before a House subcommittee to define and defend its role in social media monitoring. Read More

Linux skills in demand, wages up
If you work as a Linux developer or system administrator, your pay should be increasing -- and so should your job offers -- according to a new survey of hiring managers. Read More