Grant Gross

Wireless security must be the top priority for providers doing business with the U.S. government according to Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIM's) president and co-CEO

IBM and Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a new one-stop service designed to help businesses and government agencies respond to and recover from disasters, the companies said.

The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday downplayed privacy concerns raised by the government's efforts to create standardized, data-chipped drivers licenses across the country.

A grand jury in Omaha, Nebraska, has indicted three people on charges of conspiracy, fraud and aggravated identity theft related to a "high-tech" scheme to hijack online brokerage accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced.

Domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy.com was hit with "significant and sustained" distributed denial-of-service attacks Sunday, the company said.

Banks, online merchants and technology vendors must work together to prevent security problems such as phishing attacks and data breaches, eBay president and CEO Meg Whitman said Thursday.

IT security is at the top of the priority list for U.S. government chief information officers. It's also an area where CIOs are making progress, according to a survey released Monday by the Information Technology Association of America.

The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has renewed its call for the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive data protection law in 2007 and gave the U.S. government a D for the feds lackluster cybersecurity endeavors.