May 17, 2012 | COLIN NEAGLE

The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security - one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an "apocalypse."

May 17, 2012 | KIM S. NASH

As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score.

May 17, 2012 | JACK LOO

Microsoft says its SMB survey on cloud adoption supports its view that cloud can be a game changer.

May 16, 2012 | JOAN GOODCHILD

Ten infamous social engineers -- con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical vulnerabilities.

May 16, 2012 | ELLEN MESSMER

Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away.

May 16, 2012 | JARED NEWMAN

When Facebook goes public, it will enter a new world full of shareholder meetings, earnings reports, and the constant pressure to turn an increasingly bigger profit.

May 16, 2012 | TAYLOR ARMERDING

Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and invested enough in security to make it difficult, expensive and risky for cyber criminals to attack them.

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Even George W. Bush gets elected twice to be the President.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong joins social media. It should not be seen just as a rite of passage for a statesman. It is an act of statecraft in the age of “virtual” politics.

It’s our deepening obsession with technology and social media that has increased our vulnerabilities..

Cyberspace's most famous activist, Julian Assange, has been under house arrest for more than a year now. But he is not keeping quiet.