Nick Barron

Without a careful security policy in place, the benign face of social networking could turn quite nasty

The war zone is not a perfect world: battle conditions often mean security compromises for friendly forces.

'Approved' product is a gift horse into whose mouth you need to look with great care. You pays for what you gets...

Why do vendors in a multi-solution world make it so difficult to monitor things? Just provide a read-only interface...

Security vendor Sophos have produced a free "Threatasaurus", an A-Z of security jargon terms explained in plain English, and a Windows tool for basic file encryption, both available for free at http://www.sophos.com/microsite/data-protection/.

Never mind the web gossip: pacemakers connected to the internet can really improve quality of life for their users

The computer industry is in two minds about piracy: there's a thin line between abuse and over-regulation

Polygraphs and speech analysis are not the solution - you need a range of techniques to trap corporate liars

The BBC's purchase of a botnet added little to our knowledge and was probably not legal either

As the current hot technology, Twitter has many admirers - but its security problems need handling with care.