Security

Average annual cost of PCI compliance audit? $225k

Roughly 2% of companies undergoing payment-card industry technology reviews fail

Global chip sales skyrocket in January

Semiconductor sales up 47.2% over January '09, industry group says

Microsoft to target other botnets with legal weapon

Acknowledges it's too soon to judge its fight against Waledac bots

Top 5 DARPA Technology Projects of 2010–Part 1 of 3

DARPA transforms Science Fiction technology into reality

More than 100 companies targeted by Google hackers

Two months after hack, security firm says another 68 command-and-control servers have been identified

Open Source Friday Focus: Password Safe

Forget zero day attacks, the most common vector for security incidents are weak passwords or poor password management. Don't be the next headline, secure your passwords now!

FTC seeks extensive information from firms being investigated for P2P breaches

Firms asked to submit technology, process-related information dating back to 2007

Online Payment Security: Should Government Intervene?

Britain all atweet over Twitter phishing attack

A Twitter phishing attack has hit several prominent British Twitter users

Cloud computing security challenges unite hosting providers, security specialists

Cloud computing providers are teaming with security vendors to shore up hosted environments