Educating consumers about internet risks is a dicey proposition, one security expert said during a panel at RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco.

Microsoft re-released on Thursday one of the four fixes it had distributed as part of this month's Patch Tuesday.

Two Los Angeles municipal traffic engineers were arraigned and charged with hacking city systems to disable traffic lights, all in connection with a labor dispute.

Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to pay $4.25 million in a settlement with 39 states over malicious digital rights management software the music giant surreptitiously installed on CDs last year.

A former systems administrator for UBS PaineWebber was sentenced to over eight years in jail and fined $3.1 million last week after he was found guilty for leaving a logic bomb on UBS' systems and trading securities on the assumption that the company's stock would fall.

Symantec has filed suit against a network of accused counterfeit software distributors.

IT security professionals are scrambling to learn how the latest change in federal regulations governing electronic legal documents affects their jobs.

The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) announced on Monday a change of the guard as its General Counsel Liz Gasster will replace a departing Paul Kurtz as executive director of the organization in 2007.

While most major security vendors worked out the kinks in their Windows Vista-compatible offerings this week, some niche vendors were taking advantage of the corporate launch to unveil new security solutions.

A spyware operation has settled a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint that it deceptively downloaded unwanted and malicious software onto users' computers.