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Security researches revealed vulnerabilities in ChromeOS this week at Black Hat, it was reported today by VentureBeat. By exploiting an issue in the pre-installed ScratchPad extension, the researchers were

This week Defcon and Black Hat are taking place in Las Vegas, so get set for a storm of security product announcements and paranoia inducing security disclosures. One of

Last week we told you about Microsoft's admission that, if compelled by the U.S. Patriot act, the company would hand over data stored outside the U.S. to U.S. authorities.

Today at the GigaOM Structure event in San Francisco Citrix Data Center and Virtualization CTO Simon Crosby announced that he and Xen founder Ian Pratt are stepping down and

Today eEye Digital Security released the results of a survey of over 1,600 IT administrators, managers and C-level executives about their top security concerns. Most respondents said that high

Data collected from customers is routinely anonymized and then sold or otherwise disseminated for research purposes. But does anonymization work? One particularly high profile case was Netflix's release of

Dropbox Reader is a set of Python scripts for forensic investigators. The scripts provide investigators with information about a particular Dropbox user's account and activities, such as the registration

Today's successful businesses run at the speed of light, requiring employees and corporate assets to be available and accessible 24/7. Enterprises need to find a way to allow rapid,

In a well-publicized case, a data analyst employed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took his laptop home to suburban Maryland. Burglars entered his home and stole

Google is famously secretive about its data centers, so a new video on its enterprise blog that gives a glimpse into the inner workings of its facilities is a

Today Google announced a new version of its Google Apps Device Policy app for Android. New features include the ability to locate a lost or stolen Android device on

As enterprises face increasingly sophisticated and specialized risks, criminals seem to be taking a quality-over-quantity approach to malware, phishing and spamming. According to the IBM X-Force 2010 Trend and

IDC recently conducted a survey of IT consumerization trends on behalf Unisys. The survey found that consumerization is well underway - among the findings is the fact that 95%

Today Zynamics, a company that makes security analysis tools, announced that it has been acquired by Google. Zynamics specializes in tools for reverse engineering binary executables - in other

Bob Schroeder is the director of product management at Qwest Business. In this interview, he provides a high level overview of what you should be doing to protect your

Last week Hewlett-Packard announced it will be brining WebOS to PCs. In an interivew with the Seattle Times, HP CTO of Personal Systems Phil McKinney says that HP isn't

Android use in the enterprise is steadily growing but IT managers have to rely on either ActiveSync or use a third-party mobile device management solution to handle security. Motorola

Okta was founded in 2008 by two former Salesforce.com executives to solve an emerging problem for organizations using cloud services: user management and access control. Okta integrates with Active

According to Good Technology's final report on new enterprise smart phone activations in 2010, Android is holding steady. Good sells a popular device management solution for non-BlackBerry devices. It

What makes a great password may not be its complexity but how many words you want to string in a row. Passwords get hacked in five basic ways, writes

Cisco released its 2010 Annual Security Report yesterday. The report covers criminals' slow shift from targeting Windows PCs to targeting other operating systems and devices, the importance of exploiting

Whether you call it "enterprise 2.0" or "social business," one thing is for certain: you're going to need at least some tools to implement it. SaaS delivery models are

Last week we reported on accusations that FBI contractors had planted backdoors in the open source operating system OpenBSD. OpenBSD developers have been auditing code since the accusations surfaced

These thee Microsoft stories weren't the biggest news of the week, but they are worth knowing about if you missed them. One of the stories is merely a clue

The FBI is being accused of planting backdoors in the security-focused open source operating system OpenBSD. OpenBSD is used in commercial security products such as firewalls from Calyptix and