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?"

We handed out crystal balls to several analysts, consultants, professors and CSOs and asked them to answer questions about next year.

The top cybersecurity events of the year.

The end of yet another year sees in this final 2007 edition of SC Magazine our annual roundup of top thinkers, interesting happenings, business developments and criminal acts.

On the hunt for more innovative solutions to holistically safeguard organizations' growing networks, Peter Stephenson pinpoints the product categories and solutions you might consider next year.

October was a scary month for IT administrators in charge of filtering spam, according to a pair of reports from messaging security firms.

A team of university researchers have disclosed a flaw in Windows 2000's random number generator (RNG). Microsoft has downplayed the vulnerability, saying it could only be exploited by a user of the victimized computer.

An uncertain economy is likely to negatively impact IT spending next year, especially within large enterprises, according to a new report from Computer Economics.