While some of my colleagues here at TST look at highly technical and detailed security topics, I am more likely to focus how to protect your data from a zombie attack, an outbreak of swine flu or an IED. The latest addition to my personal "Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is the cloud provider or software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor that fails and suddenly goes dark.

To much ballyhoo and press coverage, the Obama administration has released a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. However, it appears the privacy rights consumers are entitled to on the Internet will become a topic for discussion with companies that oftentimes abuse those rights.

One of the more subtle aspects of and bigger lessons learned from IPv6 from a security perspective is how easy a technology developed to solve a specific problem can wind up being misappropriated.

A new survey finds nearly six in 10 information security pros are using inadequate tools to protect their enterprise servers.

While most of the focus on cybercrime these days has been on financially motivated attacks,  “hactivism” has re-emerged as the primary motivation behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.