For many IT organizations, the management of firewalls today is a slow, painful process. The rules these firewalls rely on generally were put in place years ago, and subsequent firewall administrators have been loath to change them for fear of making things worse. To make matters more interesting, security administrators now find themselves trying to manage multiple firewalls from different vendors, all of which come with their own arcane management console.

In many enterprises, the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is spinning out of control, yet most companies don't know what to do about it, given the fact that the consumerization of IT appears to be an unstoppable trend.

 Foxconn, a major manufacturer for Apple iPads and iPhone was hacked and attacked over the weekend by a group calling itself Swagg Security.

The non-profit privacy organization known as EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Feb. 9, 2012, against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a somewhat-roundabout attempt to stop Google from implementing its new privacy policy targeted to go into effect March 1.

The Boston Police Department is the latest in a growing list of law enforcement agencies -- federal, state and local -- whose sites have been hacked, defaced and temporarily made inoperable by the group that calls itself Anonymous.