Security

Cybercrime fueled by mature digital underground

How will cloud, virtualization and SDN complicate future firewall security?

The firewall is the IT security gold standard but will the traffic of the future going to go through it?

EFF sues FBI over facial-recognition records

The civil liberties group wants details on the FBI's efforts to build a new biometric database

Cisco fixes serious vulnerabilities in email, Web and content security appliances

The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to inject commands and crash critical services

South Korean cyberattacks linked to known gang

The 'DarkSeoul' gang has been linked to attacks in South Korea since 2009

Microsoft asks to disclose FISA requests to set the record straight

The company wants to correct the 'misimpression' it gives the government direct access to its servers

Former NSA leakers: We told you so

Snowden's leaks show the massive data collection that other leakers have been warning about, they say

Why business is losing the war against cybercrime

A data center story for the ages: the fuel bucket brigade

The effort to save a NYC data center following Hurricane Sandy is remembered in a new film

Prism implicates Facebook, Yahoo and others in Europe, student group charges

The US government surveillance program infringes on Europeans' privacy rights, the student group claims