Looking at force multipliers—good and bad.

A new service intercepts and checks all of a company's Web traffic, catching malware before it gets anywhere near the corporate firewall.

A new study from Ernst & Young says companies need to secure telecommuters from particular risks, such as peer-to-peer sharing.

Many companies are turning to user-friendly phone authentication as it becomes cheaper and easier to implement.

Information security professionals will play a more strategic role in company security in the coming years, according to a study from the London-based Information Security Forum.

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The percentage of the 100 most popular Web sites in the first half of 2008 that either hosted malicious activity or contained a masked link to redirect users to an infected site. That’s according to San Diego-based Websense Security Labs.

One in three IT professionals abuses administrative passwords to snoop on employee data, according to security vendor Cyber Ark.

Sophos free Endpoint Assessment Test offers a thorough and free way of finding where weaknesses might lie within a computer or a laptop.

A computer security firm uncovered the exploits of a Russian cybergang, which included using malware to steal money from private bank accounts.

A proposed security agreement between the European Union and United States would give federal officials access to a vast new pool of counterterrorism intelligence data.

West Africa is emerging as another frontline in the war on drugs.

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Number of years World Bank analysts predict a fragile state is likely to stay so. The World Bank identified 33 countries or territories as fragile states in 2007.

An electronics manufacturing firm used risk management software to assess threats to personnel and property during the wildfires that swept through California last year.

This text upends the traditional approach to IT security and argues that corporations should do the incomprehensible: share threat and breach data.

A significant new biography of al Qaida's leading theoretician of jihad.

Ryan and Glarum provide a good reference text for those security professionals interested in biosecurity and bioterrorism.

An updated and excellent version of Siljander's original 1991 textbook.

Combining aspects of a textbook, reference book, and introduction to technologies, this work shows security engineers how to design secure computer-based systems.

Dorin's doomsday scenario of a fifth column of jihadist physicians isn't convincing and is of little value to security practitioners.