Security

Google lawyers begin closing arguments in Italian trial

Verdict set for January

IT departments need right skills to recover in 2010

IT leaders hoping to help businesses rebuild post economic recession must have certain high-tech skills sets in house.

Supreme Court to consider texting-in-workplace privacy case

Police officers "sexting" messages at issue in groundbreaking legal drama

Kill JavaScript in Adobe Reader to ward off zero-day exploit, experts urge

Public exploit code just 'day or two' away, says Metasploit's HD Moore

RockYou hack exposes names, passwords of 30M accounts

SQL injection flaw blamed for intrusion at social networking app vendor

10 Predictions for 2010: Kaminsky and Weatherford

Microsoft’s acquisition of Sentillion stands out

* Sentillion found its niche concentrating solely on IAM in the healthcare industry

Spam-linked Chinese domain registrar caught in porn cleanup

A campaign against Internet porn in China has led the country's domain regulator to tighten policies

Hackers are defeating tough authentication, Gartner warns

One-time passwords, aren't enough to stop cybercrooks from plundering bank accounts

New laws complicate security efforts in 2010

Compliance regulations such as HITECH will drive security efforts in 2010