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Woman ordered to pay for file-sharing will appeal A woman ordered to pay $222,000 for downloading and sharing music files has decided to appeal the case. IT trainer offers master's degree for hackers In an effort to produce the next generation of chief security officers and IT systems defense experts, an online training company is offering a new master's degree program in security science.  October 8, 10:47 a.m. PDT Microsoft patents watermark technology that may lock down DRM-free music Microsoft has won a patent for a digital-watermarking technology that could be used to protect the rights of content owners even when digital music is distributed without DRM protection. September 11, 4:02 p.m. PDT Government-industry security group expands The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP), an IT security standards consortium that includes heavyweights such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and many of the largest government contractors in the world, is looking to broaden its ranks. August 14, 1:15 p.m. PDT Universal to test sales of DRM-free music Universal Music Group (UMG) is the latest major music label to offer music downloads without copy protection. August 10, 6:19 a.m. PDT Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies A hacker has posted instructions for how to save streamed movies from the Netflix service, undermining Microsoft's copy protection technology designed to prevent people from saving the content. August 9, 4:36 a.m. PDT Nokia to use Microsoft's PlayReady DRM software Nokia has agreed to license Microsoft's new PlayReady DRM technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software. August 6, 5:53 a.m. PDT Apps security to dominate Black Hat Black Hat kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a big shift in focus from Internet viruses to application security. July 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft music copy protection cracked again Microsoft downplayed Tuesday the impact of a new hack of its DRM technology, underlining the difficulties in erecting a long-lasting digital barrier against piracy. July 17, 9:01 a.m. PDT Cisco pushes IronPort smarts to firewalls Cisco Systems will begin offering IronPort's security filtering tools to its firewall customers after the networking giant's acquisition of the company closes on June 25. June 22, 10:05 a.m. PDT Extradited copyright infringer sentenced The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. June 22, 8:59 a.m. PDT Linden CTO: DRM drags down economy Digital-rights management (DRM) drags down economic growth, and countries that back the technology are doomed to lag behind, a top Linden Research executive said Thursday. June 21, 5:13 a.m. PDT Microsoft unveils integrated security Microsoft shared details of its long-term security product strategy as part of its ongoing TechEd 2007 training conference on June 4, lifting the lid on plans to deliver an integrated suite of its software by mid-2009. June 4, 7:24 a.m. PDT Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased, a concession by the movie industry that may quell criticism that DRM (digital rights management) technologies are too restrictive. May 24, 4:42 a.m. PDT Amazon preps DRM-free music store Amazon.com will open an online music store whose songs will not carry copy-protection technology, the Seattle e-tailer announced Wednesday, confirming a move that had recently been rumored. May 16, 8:04 a.m. PDT Building trust in downloads no simple feat The Truste group's goal of creating an online ecosystem through which software makers are held accountable for the functions of their programs and end users are given the power to keep unwanted applications off their devices won't be achieved easily, according to security researchers and participants in the nonprofit's Trusted Downloads project. May 10, 5:04 p.m. PDT European Parliament sparks criticism with IP changes The European Parliament made changes to a controversial proposal for a law criminalizing intellectual-property (IP) infringements Wednesday, sparking criticism from all sides in the debate. April 25, 8:23 a.m. PDT U.S. man pleads guilty in p-to-p crackdown A man from Columbus, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to two felonies related to distribution of copyright materials over a peer-to-peer network, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. April 16, 2:31 p.m. PDT Norwegian party pushes for legal file sharing A small Norwegian political party has called on the government to ban DRM (digital rights management) and legalize file-sharing, responding to growing consumer opposition in the country to restrictive controls on downloading and duplicating content from the Internet. April 16, 8:02 a.m. PDT Jobs unlikely to push for lift of video DRM Apple CEO Steve Jobs may be pushing for music labels to lift copyright protection on digital music, but he doesn't appear so eager to do the same for video content despite his position as the largest shareholder in Walt Disney. April 2, 3:14 p.m. PDT Update: EMI to offer music without DRM through iTunes EMI Group has announced a plan to sell its music online without copy protection technologies, a significant step that will give consumers greater freedom in the way they can listen to music purchased online. April 2, 5:18 a.m. PDT All eyes on London for Apple/EMI announcement A news conference in London later Monday by Apple Inc.'s Steve Jobs and EMI Group could see the announcement that the first of the four big music labels will ditch digital rights management (DRM). April 2, 4:23 a.m. PDT New hack simplifies high-definition video copying A hacker claims to have discovered a cryptographic key that can be used to circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies. February 14, 6:57 a.m. PST After Jobs criticism, Warner exec defends DRM The head of Warner Music Group defended the use of DRM (digital rights management) with digital music on Wednesday in an apparent response to recent criticism from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. February 14, 5:06 a.m. PST Consumer group blasts Jobs' DRM letter Just because three major online music retailers bind their music stores to specific portable players doesn't make it acceptable, a Norwegian consumer group leading the charge against Apple's DRM (digital rights management) policy says. February 7, 5:23 a.m. PST Enemy inside the firewall Corporate security lapses are once again sweeping the news hour, but these days the culprit is just as likely to be an inside source -- a paid employee at a reputable company -- as a hacker doing evil somewhere in a Moscow basement. February 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Alleged software pirate turns himself in to police A Pennsylvania man who allegedly sold pirated software and movies through a Web site has turned himself in to police, according to two trade groups. January 19, 10:25 a.m. PST Experts: Vendors need to reach DRM consensus It's time for a DRM showdown, according to experts and industry executives. The debate over digital rights management (DRM) is as contentious today as it was five years ago. But industry experts on a panel at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) said Monday there will have to be some industry consensus soon over digital content protection as the purchase of digital multimedia files become more pervasive among the average consumer. January 12, 12:39 p.m. PST Researchers: Hack will help kill HD DVD copy protection The recent release of software that can be used to decode encrypted HD DVD and Blu-ray movies is the first step toward making the encryption standard used by these next-generation video players obsolete, Princeton University researchers said Monday. January 9, 5:53 a.m. PST Hacker: Blu-ray, HD DVD copy protection cracked A computer hacker claims to have broken the AACS (Advanced Access Content System) encryption specification used to control unauthorized copying on HD-DVD and Blu-ray video players. December 29, 2:53 p.m. PST Sony rootkit settlement with states reaches $5.75M Sony BMG Music Entertainment's botched attempt to stop unauthorized music copying has cost the company another $4.25 million. December 21, 3:26 p.m. PST Sony pays $1.5M to settle rootkit suits Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million in penalties to settle lawsuits with two U.S. states over its controversial use of copy protection software. December 19, 2:29 p.m. PST Attributor cashes up to deliver new DRM system Attributor, a company looking at new ways to provide DRM (digital rights management), is promising to release a technology that will scan the Internet for unauthorized uses of copyright digital media. December 18, 2:16 p.m. PST 2006 Year in Reviews: Security Given a sharp nudge from federal and state mandates, the security focus has shifted from intruders and malware to data protection and the insider threat — and the likes of Vontu, Reconnex, Oakley Networks, and PortAuthority are meeting the challenge. December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST Yahoo Music continues DRM-free download experiment Yahoo put another music track without DRM (digital rights management) on sale through its Yahoo Music service Tuesday. December 6, 5:39 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST PortAuthority tightens its data security net I appreciate when a vendor succeeds at developing a very good application. But what I find more admirable is when a vendor recognizes the deficits in its solutions, makes no excuses, and quickly goes back to the drawing board to make that app excellent. December 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Groups launch Digital Freedom campaign It's time for consumers, musicians and filmmakers to band together and advocate copyright laws that make sense for them, not for large music labels and movie studios, a group of advocacy groups said Wednesday during the launch of the Digital Freedom campaign. October 25, 10:43 a.m. PDT US agencies tap ActivIdentity smart cards The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have chosen a smart-card authentication product from ActivIdentity Corp. as the U.S. government faces a deadline for using new identity cards. October 24, 8:57 a.m. PDT AllofMP3.com denies music piracy charges An executive of the Russian song-downloading Web site AllofMP3.com insists his site is legal, despite admitting it has never paid royalties from sales directly to artists. October 17, 11:22 a.m. PDT HP execs zip lips, Microsoft's DRM trips The HP spying scandal has claimed another fall guy -- or, in this case, fall gal. Chief Counsel Ann O. Baskins resigned last week after declining to testify about her role before Congress. Former spymaster Patricia Dunn says the longtime employee “bled HP blue ink.” The good news for Baskins: her red, yellow, and black cartridges are still full, and with an exit package worth roughly $3.7 million, so is her bank account. So far, CEO and new board chair Mark Hurd has managed to keep his scalp attached. Meanwhile, reader John R. wonders whether HP took its own “Go Far. Keep Your Secrets Close” ad campaign a little too seriously. By “far,” they probably didn’t mean prison. October 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft files lawsuit against DRM hackers Microsoft is suing a group of hackers who apparently gained access to the company's proprietary source code, creating a program that wipes media files clean of file-sharing restrictions. September 27, 5:29 a.m. PDT Digital home devices to shine in 2007 After a series of false starts, sales of devices for the digital home will take off in 2007, the chairman of Acer said Tuesday. September 26, 5:02 a.m. PDT German music download store uses watermarks, not DRM A German company is offering MP3 files for download, unencumbered by DRM (digital rights management). Instead, Akuma discourages copying by adding a unique "watermark" to each download. September 15, 6:17 a.m. PDT US urges European regulators to lay off Apple DRM A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) official has joined the debate surrounding Apple Computer's proprietary digital music technology by criticizing European antitrust activities, but groups attacking Apple are defending their actions. September 14, 9:44 a.m. PDT Collaboration yields new frontiers for multimedia It’s easy to assume that open source and multimedia are mutually exclusive. A common criticism of free desktop Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, is that they lack support for multimedia playback, even for common formats. But don’t blame the distributions’ packagers. A maze of patents has accumulated around multimedia through the years, covering every aspect of playback and encoding. Even the MP3 format is restricted by patents that conflict with the requirements of free software licenses. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Keep data confidential -- or else Multiple laws and regulations exist to protect customer data. The unfortunate consequence of multiple laws governing confidential data and encryption is that none offers prescriptive guidance. Whether encryption solutions and strategies satisfy a particular law is left up to the auditors and lawyers. Still, there are several legal requirements that address confidential data. September 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Encryption fuels security trends Two new trends in data protection are using encryption to accomplish their goals: controlled rights and self-deleting data. September 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT Consumer groups may join forces against iTunes Consumer representatives from several Nordic countries are discussing how to proceed in their battle against Apple Computer over the iTunes digital rights management (DRM) policy. August 25, 5:51 a.m. PDT French copyright law takes effect, to industry dismay Software publishers and Socialist Party members are among the groups unhappy with the new French copyright law that took effect Friday. French Net surfers could now go to prison for downloading copyright music files without authorization, while companies such as Apple Computer, which make or use DRM (digital rights management) technology to protect music downloads, may have to provide details of the system to their competitors in the interests of interoperability. August 4, 7:10 a.m. PDT Apple responds to iTunes DRM complaints Apple Computer has replied to criticism of its iTunes digital rights management policy, meeting a deadline set by consumer agencies in Scandinavia, an advisor at Norway's Consumer Council said on Tuesday. August 1, 4:42 a.m. PDT French copyright law gets tougher France's Constitutional Council has made a stringent new copyright law even harsher, modifying three articles of the law and striking out a fourth in a review of its constitutionality. July 28, 1:07 p.m. PDT Musicrypt tunes in to so-called soft biometrics Much of the attention paid to intelligent anti-fraud solutions has come from banking, financial services, and e-commerce companies. There’s a good reason for that, too: They’re the companies most often targeted by frauds. But the benefits of new authentication methods extend well beyond the e-commerce and banking verticals. July 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Yahoo starts selling DRM-free music Yahoo this week became one of the first mainstream digital music sites to sell a song without DRM (digital rights management) copy protection. July 21, 9:04 a.m. PDT French law affects copyright, DRM, Apple With a show of hands, French lawmakers approved a new copyright law on Friday, in a move that could have profound consequences for online music stores, open-source programmers, desktop Linux users and P-to-P (peer-to-peer) file sharers. June 30, 9:14 a.m. PDT French copyright law advances A committee convened to determine a compromise draft of a new French copyright law had no trouble reaching a decision Thursday -- after opposition lawmakers walked out of the meeting. The compromise text will be submitted to the French Senate and the French National Assembly for vote on June 30. June 22, 9:25 a.m. PDT Microsoft, Lessig launch new copyright tool The coupling of Microsoft and Lawrence Lessig, an outspoken proponent of loosening restrictions on copyrights for digital content, may seem an unlikely one. But the software company and Lessig's Creative Commons organization will announce Wednesday that they've teamed up to develop a tool that lets Microsoft Office users create Creative Commons licenses from within Microsoft Office documents. June 21, 4:33 a.m. PDT Patent overload hinders open source innovation Open source gives you choices. Not happy with commercial software? Try the open source alternative, and work to add the features you need. If no open source project already exists, start your own. Chances are, other folks have the same itch and would be willing to help you scratch it. June 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pressure mounts against Apple DRM Pressure is mounting in Europe for Apple Computer to loosen the ties between its iTunes music store and its iPod music players, with activity in Norway and the U.K. this week demonstrating opposition to Apple's policies. June 8, 5:14 a.m. PDT Piracy police bust Malaysia, Taiwan rings Recent antipiracy raids in Malaysia and Taiwan shut down facilities capable of producing 17 million illegal discs per year, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said Wednesday. June 7, 7:07 a.m. PDT Study: Don't legislate DRM In a new report released Monday, a group of lawmakers advised the British government not to make DRM (digital rights management) systems mandatory, citing concerns over how the technology restricts access to digitized files. June 5, 8:33 a.m. PDT Free Software Foundation: Free as in "do what I say" When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organized around a radical idea: Software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of liberty. During the next 20 years that idea turned out to be not just radical, but surprisingly practical. Beginning with Stallman's Emacs text editor, to the various Gnu utilities, the Linux kernel, and beyond, free software has proved to be an enduring success. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Settlement ends Sony rootkit case Music fans who bought CD's with Sony BMG Music Entertainment's controversial XCP copy control software are going to get refunds. May 23, 4:32 a.m. PDT DoCoMo, Microsoft team up on mobile music NTT DoCoMo and Microsoft are working together to make cell phones compatible with the large number of online music stores that use Microsoft's technology, they said Thursday. May 11, 5:15 a.m. PDT French copyright bill gives Apple a break The French Senate approved a new copyright bill Wednesday, but amended it to soften a requirement for digital music vendors such as Apple Computer to open up their DRM (digital rights management) technologies to competitors. May 11, 5:05 a.m. PDT Apple may be favored by French bill French lawmakers may throw out plans to require online music stores to use interoperable DRM (digital rights management) systems to protect their wares when a new copyright bill comes up for debate Thursday. May 3, 10:09 a.m. PDT Burst.com accuses Apple of patent infringement Apple Computer is facing a lawsuit over technology within its popular iPod digital music player and two related applications. April 18, 4:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft to beef up its investment in DRM for mobile With ever more songs, pictures, and video clips being sent over the airwaves to mobile phones, Microsoft plans to beef up its investment in DRM (digital rights management) technologies to help protect copyright material, the company said Wednesday on the opening day of CTIA Wireless 2006 in Las Vegas. April 5, 4:21 a.m. PDT Music industry sues 2,000 uploaders in Europe The music industry unleashed a new wave of copyright lawsuits on European Internet users on Tuesday, bringing the total sued since November to around 2,000, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). April 4, 8:53 a.m. PDT German watermark technology gains traction In case you didn't know, two separate institutes within the renowned German research group Fraunhofer Gesellschaft have developed two separate watermark technologies, with one quietly gaining traction in the European audio sector. March 28, 6:53 a.m. PST Sue Google, not us, Torrentspy tells Hollywood The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) might just as well have sued Google for copyright violation rather than pick on Torrentspy, the smaller company said in a court filing this week seeking dismissal of the case. March 28, 4:46 a.m. PST Researcher: DRM technology fails in practice Digital rights management (DRM) technology has deep flaws despite the hope of content providers that encrypted files will deter illegal file sharing, a computer security researcher said Monday. March 27, 8:39 a.m. PST The hidden challenges of federated identity For years, companies have kept stores of identity information about employees, customers, and partners. These databases and directories are critical components of a company’s identity infrastructure. But as businesses push to create new products and increase productivity, they have discovered that they often must cooperate to provide the services their customers and employees demand. March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Scaling a federated identity infrastructure Different kinds of organizations approach the problem of scaling a federated identity implementation in different ways. When you’re federating with one or two partners, hammering out the legal arrangements and assigning risk and liability is done one partner at a time. Even if technology standards provide universal system interoperability, the lawyers are likely to approach each agreement as a one-off task. Let’s call this model “peer-to-peer federation.” March 24, 3:00 a.m. PST Apple lashes out at proposed French law Apple Computer has accused France of "state-sponsored piracy" in reaction to a proposed law that would allow iTunes users to play their music on devices other than iPods. March 22, 4:09 a.m. PST French National Assembly approves copyright bill The French National Assembly approved a digital copyright bill on Tuesday that will require DRM (digital rights management) developers to reveal details of their technology to rivals that wish to build interoperable systems. The bill could affect the FairPlay DRM used by Apple Computer in its iTunes Music Store and iPod music players, and Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, used by rival French music stores Fnac.com and Virginmega.fr to lock downloaded tracks to particular music players. March 21, 9:28 a.m. PST French bill may drive away open-source developers French Deputy Frédéric Dutoit accused the government on Wednesday night of "signing the death warrant for open-source software" in France, as the debate in the National Assembly over a new copyright bill lurched towards a conclusion. March 16, 12:02 p.m. PST Security in the spotlight at CeBIT Security will be a major focus this week at the giant CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. This year, the annual digital IT trade show will hone in on the multiple layers of security threats facing enterprise networks. Now it's not just data networks that are under attack; VoIP and even paper documents are at risk. March 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Sidestepping the analog hole On an episode of “The West Wing,” deputy national security adviser Kate Harper (Mary McCormack) reprimands presidential assistant Debbie Fiderer (Lily Tomlin) for displaying the president’s schedule on her computer screen. As Harper correctly points out, anybody could walk into the office and find out something they shouldn’t know. March 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Macrovision acquires access control firm eMeta Macrovision, provider of installation and copy-protection software for the enterprise software, music, and other industries, announced this week it has acquired eMeta. February 17, 8:26 a.m. PST Sony rootkit may lead to regulation A U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official warned Thursday that if software distributors continue to sell products with dangerous rootkit software, as Sony BMG Music Entertainment recently did, legislation or regulation could follow. February 17, 4:38 a.m. PST RSA: RSA puts a token into a browser toolbar RSA Security expanded its line of tokens in two directions on Tuesday, launching both a browser toolbar and a hardware token that can electronically "sign" online transactions. February 14, 3:14 p.m. PST Fraunhofer develops tool against online music piracy Fraunhofer Institute has developed prototype technology to help curb the sharp rise in online music piracy, which, ironically, has been enabled through another invention of the renowned German research group: MP3 audio compression. February 9, 6:52 a.m. PST Opening up iTunes U Criticizing free services is always dicey. So when I dinged Stanford University and Apple for the nonaccessibility of the lectures at itunes.stanford.edu, I knew I risked seeming churlish. But there are some things about this deal that rub me the wrong way. February 1, 3:00 a.m. PST State CIOs need more IT security support from DHS The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) must improve its support for U.S. state and local governments so they can better protect their IT infrastructures from attackers, two organizations of top IT officials said Wednesday. January 25, 2:57 p.m. PST GPL 3 draft draws mostly positive response The open-source community and lawyers have greeted the Free Software Foundation's (FSF's) first take on a major update to its GNU GPL (general public license) with more bouquets than brickbats. January 23, 7:26 a.m. PST New GPL takes shots at patents, DRM The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday released a draft version of its new GPL (GNU General Public License) version 3 software license designed to address two increasingly important issues in the software industry: software patents and DRM (digital rights management). January 17, 4:31 a.m. PST Court throws out Yahoo appeal in Nazi memorabilia case Yahoo lost a legal battle on Thursday in its fight to make a French court's order against the company unenforceable in the U.S. January 12, 3:11 p.m. PST Microsoft generates mild enterprise buzz at CES I'm still in bandages with several therapy sessions left to go, but I made it back from CES 2006 alive. For those who didn't go (and it seems like most of you did), the show was huge. Think Comdex during its heyday, just bigger. I went on the cut-rate special, which meant taking a cheap flight via US Airways and staying in a house with some of InfoWorld Senior Contributing Editor Brian Chee's buddies, who turned out to all be Jesuit priests. Fun bunch of guys -- and amazing drinkers, too. (Padre, thanks again for the berth.) January 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft Research India to work on cryptography Microsoft Research announced Tuesday that it is setting up a group to do research in cryptography at its lab in Bangalore, India. January 10, 4:10 a.m. PST China-based DVD pirate pleads guilty in U.S. Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, a U.S. citizen who had been sentenced to serve a two-and-a-half-year jail term in China for selling pirated DVDs, has plead guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and agreed to forfeit US$823,833 in profits to the U.S. government, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement Monday. January 9, 7:13 p.m. PST Adobe document management software to support Office Adobe Systems has acquired the DRM (digital rights management) technology division from CAD software maker Navisware in a move to extend the formats supported by Adobe's document management software, the company said Monday. January 9, 4:28 a.m. PST Court gives first nod to Sony BMG settlement The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is praising a U.S. District Court judge's preliminary approval Friday of a settlement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment over two widely criticized copy protection programs found on an estimated 15 million music CDs. January 9, 4:20 a.m. PST Sony's CEO seeks balance for copy-protection The recent controversy over a copy-protection system employed on music CDs from Sony BMG Music Entertainment proved to Sony Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer the need to carefully balance the needs of customers and the rights of artists, he said this week. January 9, 4:08 a.m. PST Document management systems go to court Two proposed amendments to the federal Rules of Civil Procedure, if passed by Congress, will have a major impact on corporations and their IT departments. One expert I spoke with called the situation a legal Chernobyl. December 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Tech reviews for the holidays Even IT takes a holiday now and then. Same goes for the InfoWorld staff, which chills out by taking a one-week break following the publication of this, our 51st and final issue of the year. December 19, 3:00 a.m. PST SecureWave stops breaches at the source The most significant security breaches in the enterprise come from people who have easy access to the network, such as employees and approved contractors. With the influx of high-capacity portable storage technologies -- such as iPods, storage keys, and digital cameras -- it's easier than ever for information to be carried out the door. Yet for most organizations, banning the use of portable devices altogether would cripple operations. December 12, 3:00 a.m. PST New York breach notification law goes into effect New York has joined the growing list of U.S. states requiring that companies notify their customers whenever private information has been compromised. On Wednesday, the state's (http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A04254) Information Security Breach December 7, 4:32 p.m. PST Sony rootkit: A black eye for security vendors? Sony BMG Music Entertainment has been lambasted for shipping its spyware-like XCP software on music CDs over the past year, but an important question has gone largely unanswered throughout the controversy: Why didn't security vendors catch the problem sooner? December 5, 4:06 a.m. PST Trusted computing and DRM: Friend or foe? A respected mentor of mine, Steven Northcutt of SANS, once told me, "Eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds." It’s an appropriate metaphor: There is often truth buried in statements and concepts we disagree with. November 18, 3:00 a.m. PST > Security |
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