Spam has never been cheaper. online-marketing firms are falling over themselves to offer spam campaigns of millions of addresses. These e-mail blasts are disturbingly inexpensive. Pro Software Pack, for example, charges just $125 to send 1 million mes sages. Despite spending billions of dollars fighting spam over the past decade, the security industry is in [...]

At the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco we caught up with MXI Security. In this video you can see a showcase of their offerings related to portable security.
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At the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco we caught up with MXI Security. In this video you can see a showcase of their offerings related to portable security. …
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While attending the RSA Conference show last month in San Francisco, we met a lot of people and talked with a number of companies. We brought home a large list of gadgets, mainly different security-ce…
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The National Security Agency (NSA) had an Enigma machine in their booth at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco. Here’s a video that shows the machine and provides some history about it.
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Financial services companies are struggling to deal with a variety of challenges associated with authenticating and securing their customer accounts in an increasingly complex multichannel environment, a panel of IT security professionals said at this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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User education was the main theme weaving together Symantec’s R&D in enterprise, consumer and SMB security during Monday’s Symantec roundtable at the RSA Conference in San Francisco..
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The largest and most important computer security event of the year - RSA Conference 2008 - has just begun today in sunny San Francisco, California. 17,000 computer security professionals will b…
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Regulations on information security need to be much more intelligently focused than they are, said RSA head Art Coviello at the Tuesday inaugural keynote for the RSA security conference in San Francisco. Even development’s got to get wiser. The result? Eventually, the end of security as an independent industry.

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At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Dan Kaminsky will demonstrate how a Web-based attack would work on widely used routers, including those made by Cisco’s Linksys division and D-Link.

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California’s extension of its data breach notification law to cover health care records promises to have significant impact on how medical organizations deal with patient information. Most notably, it fills what might be called a loophole in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), according to Paul Smith, a partner in the health law [...]

A federal judge’s decision last week to reverse his own ruling and lift what he had declared was a “permanent” injunction shutting the Wikileaks.org site for posting sensitive bank documents has been hailed by civil liberties lawyers as an important benchmark in applying First Amendment protections to such sites.
 
Paul Levy, a Public Citizen attorney [...]