A Florida man, the ringleader of a group that used financial information stolen from TJX customers for fraudulent purchases, was sentenced this week to five years in prison and ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution.

Veracode, an application security scanning vendor, has entered into a reseller agreement with Digivera, a Latin America-based solutions integrator.

The industry leading IT security monthly, SC Magazine, has relaunched its website at http://www.scmagazineus.com/.

John DeBenedette describes his job for SC Magazine.

The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) has opened membership to technology companies and systems integrators. TSCP, a government-industry partnership for the aerospace-and-defense (AD) industry, addresses security issues related to online collaboration, identity federation and digital rights management.

Sony, which suffered through a rootkit debacle in 2005, is at it again, according to one prominent anti-virus vendor. Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a rootkit on another Sony product, the Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader.

Here is an update from the IT security industrys boardrooms.

Harry hack A hacker named Gabriel claimed to have breached the networks of the UKs Bloomsbury Publishing, uncovering the ending of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows prior to its release. Experts contended that the claim, posted on hacker websites, was likely a sham, saying that if accurate more evidence would otherwise have been offered.

The convenience of doing business on the web has embedded itself into consumers everyday routines to the point where the ability to quickly complete a multitude of tasks online has come to be expected.

SC Magazine has relaunched its podcasts as a weekly conversation with the experts on the most pressing IT security topics.