Dan Verton

Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the widely used Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption protocol, yesterday announced that he has left Network Associates Inc. because he and the company no longer agree about the future of PGP.

The Internet Software Consortium (ISC), which develops the server software most commonly used to direct traffic on the Web, is moving to create a fee-based information-sharing club that officials at the organization said is meant to give software vendors and other companies early warnings about security holes affecting its products.

The Internet Software Consortium (ISC), which develops the server software most commonly used to direct traffic on the Web, is moving to create a fee-based information-sharing club that officials at the organization said is meant to give software vendors and other companies early warnings about security holes affecting its products.

Hackers vandalized and defaced more than 5,800 Web pages last year, up from about 3,800 in 1999,...

From colourful rulers with security slogans printed on them to candy bars left on employee keyboards in return for a successful security audit, companies are pulling out all the stops to do the one thing....

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Thursday ended a seven-month criminal investigation at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that looked into the temporary disappearance of two computer hard drives containing nuclear weapons secrets after finding no evidence of espionage or intentional wrongdoing.

Despite the rash of horror stories about how much personal Internet use is costing companies in lost productivity, a recent survey in the United States suggests employers are not to concerned about employees shopping online.

With George W. Bush striding toward the White House, national security experts are preparing for what could be a major change in the way the government and the private sector organize to defend against cyberattacks.