Hackers, possibly trying to embed links to improve search engine result rankings, may have viewed the sensitive information of 1,400 prospective applicants to Duke University on the institution's law school website, school officials said today.

Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn. has deployed Enterasys' network access control solution to authenticate the college's 4,000 network devices and authorize more than 7,000 students and employees.

Full Disclosure is dead. Let me explain why. The information security world has changed, even if some don't see it or are unwilling to accept it.

Several other industry-specific microsites are scheduled to follow the financial vertical page.

New Zealand authorities are questioning an 18-year-old man who they say is the head of a gang of cybercriminals that infected 1.3 million computers worldwide and crashed servers at a U.S. university last year.

Now, as we close the calendar year and take a break from our academics for the holidays, I find time to think about what it really means to be a student of information assurance.

The latest from the boardrooms of the IT security industry.

The Colorado Rockies baseball club blamed a cyberattack for downing its online ticket sales operation before the World Series in October. The Rockies lost to the Boston Red Sox in four games, but their website was back up and running before the event. Both home games in Denver sold out. Experts said the incident resembled a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Hurtling into our annual Reboot edition, I became conscious of the break-neck speed at which 2007 has come to its end.

This is a very special issue to me and the team at SC Labs because it is based on a year of seeing the good and the not so good. We actually saw almost no bad products, so it was a pretty good year overall. It is special for you because it helps answer the question, "If we are going to buy security tools in the next 12 to 18 months, what should we be looking at?"