Security

Effectively Enforcing Password Policies and Audits

House members seek stronger health care data breach notifications

'Harm threshold' runs counter to Congress' intent, HHS told

UK High Court serves injunction over Twitter

The injunction orders an anonymous person to stop impersonating a prominent lawyer on Twitter

Survey: Mainframe managers discuss their priorities

* Availability, security and data centralization are a few reasons why mainframe computing is alive and well

US Homeland Security looking to hire 1,000 cybersecurity professionals

Security experts needed to fill out DHS' vast security goals

Princeton’s Wayback Machine helps break Vanish security system for self-destructing data

But researchers at University of Washington work to strengthen Vanish in light of findings

Independent tester: Security Essentials ‘very good’

Microsoft's free suite nails 98% of samples, says AV-Test.org; Symantec touts own test

NASA watching “perfect storm” of galactic cosmic rays

Solar system tempest setting space records

FBI warns of social networking fraud, malware escalation

Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter hit with all manner of spam, phishing, malware and general fraud

Amazon EC2 is booming; keep an eye on cloud security