Jaikumar Vijayan

John Schiefer, who pled guilty to illegal interception of data in Los Angeles, was sentenced last week in Los Angeles. He used home and work computers to help crooks steal PayPal and banking passwords

Ex-Royal Bank of Canada exec leads tranformational efforts at Citigroup's IT ops. But Citigroup is axing investments in technology out of necessity and not to improve efficiency, says TowerGroup analyst Guillermo Kopp

Bad times bring out inside badies. When economies falter, IT managers have better batten down the hatches against insider threats, according to security experts

Cybersecurity is a topic the next administration will need to focus on -- and as a high priority.

Retailers argue amended data security bill sides with banks and credit unions.

Critics of the temporary restraining order issued last Saturday by a federal judge in Boston have labeled it an infringement of the students' U.S. First Amendment rights and an example of prior restraint on free speech

The U.S. government's CIO and other federal officials have downplayed privacy concerns related to the expanded monitoring of federal networks that is planned under a multiyear initiative ordered by President Bush to boost cyber security at agencies.

The stolen credentials belong to companies from around the world and include more than 2,500 North American companies, some of whose Web sites are among the world's top 100 domains