Jaikumar Vijayan

Two well-known companies -- Cisco Systems Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. -- found themselves this week dealing with the aftermath of apparent security breaches that in both cases were embarrassingly similar to incidents both confronted only months earlier.

The potential erosion of consumer confidence in the online transaction process and the cost to companies resulting from phishing scams has triggered a multifaceted response from some organizations.

General Motors Corp. plans to migrate its end-user identity management services to a single global system over the next several years as part of a broad initiative to improve IT efficiency and reduce the automaker's operational costs.

The ability of new e-mail viruses to spread before fixes become available for them is nudging some vendors to look beyond traditional signature-based antivirus technology.

A lack of information sharing and cooperation between IT security, physical security and risk management functions is hindering efforts to upgrade corporate security, according to a study released this week by The Conference Board Inc.

The need for companies to respond in real time to both external and internal network attacks is fueling interest in automated intrusion-response technologies.

The software vulnerability that was exploited by this week's Witty worm is only the latest on a growing list of flaws that are being...

Four major Linux distributors have sharply criticized a recent report from Forrester Research Inc. that found that Microsoft Corp. outperformed them in responding to and fixing security flaws.