A panel at RSA explores wiretapping and the legal ramifications for ISPs.

E-discovery investigations can look into the alleged wrong-doings of a terminated employee and/or provide electronic records for use in corporate litigation, a lead forensics investigator told RSA Conference attendees on Wednesday.

There is a wide gap between IT security skills that organizations need and the skills IT professionals bring to the job, according to a new survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA).

A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the disabling of a website that discloses confidential information, a precedent-setting ruling that may raise a legal challenge to the growing online black market in purloined data while testing First Amendment rights.

Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey has notified more than 300,000 of its members that their personal information -- including Social Security numbers -- was contained in a laptop stolen in Newark earlier this month.

Do you work with a human resources or recruiting department that is clueless when it comes to hiring IT security professionals? Help is on the way, in the form of a new booklet containing hiring guidelines.

Wireless LAN vendor AirDefense disparaged vendors at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention and Expo, which took place this week in New York, for slipshod airborne web-security practices.

Social networking giant Facebook has sued an Ontario-based company associated with online porn, alleging that it tried to hack into its system and access the personal information of users.

A website that promotes itself as "the world's largest sex and swingers personal community" has settled a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission.

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