Security

Maintaining PCI compliance is a big challenge for most companies

Many tend to treat compliance as a lone annual event, leaving them vulnerable, Verizon says

This smartphone will self-destruct in 5 seconds

IBM wins $3M contract to build sensors and phones, that can be triggered to self-destruct

LinkedIn introduces, quickly says goodbye to email service that sparked security concerns

The Intro software dropped LinkedIn profile information into mobile emails

Cybercriminals compromise home routers to attack online banking users

Attackers changed the DNS configuration of vulnerable home routers to mount man-in-the-middle attacks against users in Poland

FBI: Stolen copper gang cuts its way to prison

FBI says band of seven men sold stolen utility copper for more than $15,000

Apple locked iPhone code blocks Italian murder probe

Police have been stymied in attempts to obtain code to unlock the iPhone of a woman murdered last July

Judging in the Olympics and IT Security: Subjective vs. Objective

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and often times so is risk management.

Building control systems can be pathway to Target-like attack

Microsoft plans another short patch slate for next week, but finds a few XP bugs to crush

IE is AWOL from the patch list for the second month in a row

Target attack shows danger of remotely accessible HVAC systems

Qualys says about 55,000 Internet-connected heating systems, including one at the Sochi Olympic arena, lack adequate security