Ellen Messmer

Symantec's Critical Infrastructure Protection Study reveals IT manager opinions on whether they thought their businesses had come under cyberattacks that might have a distinct political motivation

Reporter finds the welcome mat for the press thrown out by the U.S. National Security Agency had a few loose threads

NSA and military-supported certification processes are slow as molasses compared to the IT industry's lightning-fast innovations

PricewaterhouseCoopers has swapped out employees' older software-based private-key certificates for hardware-based storage of new certificates using the Trusted Platform Module

It's a devil's bargain, says one industry analyst of user demands for devices mainly aimed at consumers, and there isn't one solution rn

Three University of California researchers have published a paper showing how quantum physics can be used to do cryptographic tasks, such as key exchange protocols based solely on location. One prof says classic triangulation techniques can be spoofed

Sourcefire Inc.

A gas station worker in Florida discovered fraudsters placed a credit card skimming device in the gas pump that reads data over Bluetooth networks. The Secret Service is investigating