One of the great unintended consequences of my job, having covered the IT security space for nearly four years, is my great inability to accurately gauge the awareness that mainstream America has for cyber-risks.

Just how true is a Wall Street Journal report that Citigroup lost tens of millions of dollars to hackers? Let's put our conspiracy theory goggles on.

Time and time again, we've seen information security regulations and guidelines delayed due to the burden they might impose on small businesses. This bowing down must end.

Joe Simitian, a Democratic state senator from California, is still scratching his head, some two weeks after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed SB-20, an update to the landmark 2003 Golden State breach notification bill, known as SB-1386.

The security of online banking is being tested like it's never been tested before. A number of recent incidents have made the news in which...

A hacker recently attacked the payroll processing firm Ceridian Corp. of Bloomington, Minn. and gained access to sensitive information of employees working at 1,900 companies nationwide.

Hackers, believed to be from China, gained access to an Iowa government database, which contained the personal information of current and former employees of Iowa's casino and racing industries.

A laptop containing sensitive patient information was recently stolen from an employee of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

Stolen computer hard drives belonging to BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee contained sensitive member information.

Lincoln National Corp. (LNC), a Radnor, Pa.-based financial services organization, revealed early this month that a vulnerability in its portfolio information system could have caused the personal records of more than one million individuals to be inappropriately accessed.