In this third article, I look at the wider context of certification and licensing for a range of professionals in the United States and point to the efforts beginning in the early 2000s to force certification for IA officers in the US Department of Defense.

A well-known Chinese artist and activist voiced strong support late Tuesday for Google's plan to stop censoring results on its China-based search engine.

An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers.

Time flies. Another month has gone by and Patch Tuesday is upon us again. Microsoft is delivering a record-tying 13 security bulletins for February, a virtual avalanche of updates after a relatively quiet January that saw only one security bulletin on Patch Tuesday, and one released out-of-band mid-month to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that was used to launch attacks against Google and other companies in China.

In this third article, I look at the wider context of certification and licensing for a range of professionals in the United States and point to the efforts beginning in the early 2000s to force certification for IA officers in the US Department of Defense.

In one of the busiest patch days in recent memory, Microsoft posts bulletins with fixes for 26 bugs, 12 of which are deemed "critical," the software giant warns.

An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers.

KeyLemon adds an extra layer of security to your computer log-in process by making your Webcam do all the heavy lifting.

Microsoft issued 13 bulletins, patching more than two dozen flaws across its product line, including critical Server Message Block flaws and a hypervisor DoS vulnerability.

In the past, vMotion network problems have inhibited virtual server migration across data centers, but Cisco claims its new data center interconnect technology, Overlay Transport Virtualization, fixes the problem.