Security

Kerry, McCain introduced online privacy bill

Privacy advocates say the bill would allow business as usual for data collection online

Record-breaking Microsoft patch day affects all versions of Windows

Microsoft fixes 64 holes, including patches for the Web version of Office and a rootkit fix

Google denies lying about Apps’ certification

Analyst takes Microsoft's side in dustup, says Google 'has things to learn' about working with the feds

Military wants full disk encryption for iPhone, Android smartphones

DARPA seeking full disk encryption tech for Apple, Google smartphones

Can IPS appliances remain useful in a virtual-machine world?

McAfee, Sourcefire both working on IPS for VMware environment

Independent lab tests find firewalls fall down on the job

US police increasingly peeping at e-mail, instant messages

A security researcher warns there is lax oversight of law enforcement requests for electronic communications

Springtime in Munich

European Identity Conference on tap for May 10-13

Researcher confirms kernel bugs will dominate Patch Tuesday

And the Internet Explorer update will close at least one hole hackers are already using

The Patent That Refuses To Die

Trend Micro continues to try and resurrect a dead and invalid patent