A software licence that was modified to become 'perpetual' did not necessarily last forever and could be terminated, the High Court has ruled.

The absence of uniform global legislation, regulations or standards for data privacy is posing a major data privacy puzzle for organizations faced with protecting the confidentiality, integrity and av...

This past Thursday (3/18/10) Microsoft announced that it will be dropping the hardware acceleration requirement for using the XP Mode feature on Windows 7.  XP Mode allows a user to run software which is not Windows 7 compatible in a virtualized instance of Windows XP on the same box.  Previously, to use [...]

Shalabh Mohan is the Director, Product Management, Cisco STBU. He manages the firewall, VPN, and Web security businesses with a focus on secure mobility. In this interview he discusses the Cisco Secur...

In my previous column on electromagnetic pulse attacks, namely, “EMO (Electromagnetic Pulse) – Yet Another Critical Infrastructure Concern,” posted on December 28, 2009, I wrote about the threat of an EMP attack. We did receive an email from a reader thanking us for raising the topic. She said that whenever she brings up the topic, [...] sr_adspace_id = 5674307; sr_adspace_width = 728; sr_adspace_height = 90; sr_adspace_type = "graphic"; sr_ad_new_window = true;

The founders of video sharing service YouTube not only knew that their service was being swamped by copyright-infringing videos but one of them actually uploaded many of them himself, according emails released in a court battle over copyright.

Google released Skipfish, a free fully automated, active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and di...

OWASP AppSec Research conference is dedicated to bringing together industry, academia, government, and security researchers and practitioners to discuss the state of the art in application security. ...

Google has released a free software tool that allows web servers to be tested for security holes

Version 3.6.2, which so far is only available as a beta, fixes a critical security hole in Firefox 3.6 for Windows that was discovered some time ago