Information freedom for open source users.

Is your company’s data under surveillance by foreign spybots looking for any competitive advantages or weaknesses they can exploit? This might sound farfetched, but such electronic espionage is real. It’s an insidious security threat that’s a lot more common than you probably realize.

As an IT or security executive, determining whether your organization is under attack via this seemingly undetectable threat — and putting in place adequate technology and procedural safeguards — should be a high priority. The stakes are too high to ignore the problem.

The hack of iPad user info on the AT&T site may be much worse than an embarassment, according to a security researcher who specializes in mobile devices.

I called my brother last week, and we had a 30-minute phone conversation. Over the next four days, and unbeknownst to him, his cell phone called me back five additional times.

Once I could hear him talking work with a coworker. Another time he was talking with our mother. Two other times, it sounded like his wife and young kids were chatting. The most recent time was notable in that he was having a private interaction that I am pretty certain neither he nor his wife meant to be public.

Windows 7 has been warmly received and swiftly adopted by businesses, with the result that many IT admins are now struggling with the platform’s new security features. In addition to changes to User Account Control, BitLocker, and other features inherited from Windows Vista, Windows 7 introduces a slew of security capabilities that businesses will want to take advantage of.