Fri, November 20, 2009 - Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - In court the Federal Communications Commission has charged 26 people with defrauding the agency of “tens of millions of dollars” from its program that lets people with hearing disabilities to communicate with hearing individuals through the use of interpreters and Web cameras.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Cisco has made available a free iPhone app that can be used to receive over a dozen security-related information feeds in customizable form related both to Cisco products and to general security topics, such as newly detected threats.

Fri, November 20, 2009 - Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according to a assessement of cloud computing risks from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).

Thu, November 19, 2009 - Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.

Thu, November 19, 2009 - Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008.

Thu, November 19, 2009 - When it comes to insider threats, you’ve probably heard over and over, "the clues were in the logs, if only they were picked up!" Often the clues aren't enough, though. Consolidation of logs is certainly the first step, but to use those clues and detect separation of duties violations or other insider threats, there are four other important technical challenges that must be addressed.