New Dark Reading Compliance Tech Center will cover relationship between security initiatives and compliance initiatives

DefCon Kid discovers new class of vulns

Social media apps meet national security

Big Bird, Google, and Facebook participate in first high-profile test flight of new IP protocol amid DDoS threat backdrop

As cybercriminals take aim at small businesses, Dark Reading offers new coverage of SMB security

Taking a moment to celebrate Dark Reading's fifth anniversary of publication

New Dark Reading subsite will focus on news and analysis of security issues in public and private cloud environments

New Dark Reading Advanced Threats Tech Center subsite will offer more in-depth news coverage, analysis on next-generation cybersecurity threats

New survey asks information security pros how certifications have shaped their careers, or not

Even the "unconference" across the street from the RSA show in San Francisco last week resonated with the fallout of recent security events

The downside of crafting a strong password is that while it's harder to guess or crack, it's also harder to remember and then use

Not only can you get caught, you can also get 0wned if the bot software is malicious

New PHP environment will make Dark Reading site more flexible -- sorry for the bumps!

Security research, like fashion, sometimes gets recycled, restyled, and even rebranded. Take network security evasion and sidejacking attacks, both of which have recently re-emerged with researchers taking new spins on these known threats.

Security research, like fashion, sometimes gets recycled, restyled, and even rebranded. Take network security evasion and sidejacking, both of which have recently experienced comebacks with new researchers taking new spins on these known threats.

Today Dark Reading launches a new feature: the Security Monitoring Tech Center, a subsite of Dark Reading devoted to bringing you news, insight, and in-depth reporting on the topic of security data monitoring and analysis.

Today Dark Reading launches a new feature: the Authentication Tech Center, a subsite of Dark Reading devoted to bringing you news, insight, and in-depth reporting on the topic of authentication and certification of end user access.

The security "unconference" is back in Vegas, and this time the setting is a gated private resort with multiple swimming pools and a sand beach, and the number of attendees signed up so far for the free -- yes, free -- event has doubled. But that doesn't mean Security BSides will lose the intimate vibe that its organizers envisioned and encouraged when they first launched it in Las Vegas a year ago.

One of the intriguing and slightly disturbing aspects of the "Robin Sage" social network experiment is the role the phony profile's looks had in, well, attracting people. Men especially. There -- I said it.

Today Dark Reading launches a new feature: the SMB Security Tech Center, a subsite of Dark Reading devoted to bringing you news, insight, and in-depth reporting on the topic of data security in small and midsize businesses.

When Microsoft's JG Chirapurath said he would stick to Twitter's maximum capacity of 140 characters for his responses in our twitterview last week, he wasn't kidding.

Four years ago this week, we flipped the switch on a new website -- Dark Reading -- that was designed to meet a simple goal: to tell you everything you need to know about IT security, right up-to-the-minute that it happens. OK, I said the goal was simple, not easy to achieve.

I sometimes get a little long-winded when I pose a question to a source during an interview. But I undoubtedly will be pithy tomorrow when I conduct Dark Reading's first-ever "twitterview," or interview via Twitter, where I'll be strictly limited to 140 characters or less for a question.

Forget the bad guys: Sometimes it seems like the security industry doesn't trust itself. There's too much internal hoarding of intelligence for privacy or competitive reasons and too little sharing of information among researchers, victims, and law enforcement about real attacks. All this does is give the cybercriminals an edge.

Personal security apps for mobile phones are here, and famed criminal profiler and frequent NBC/MSNBC guest commentator Clinton Van Zandt is getting into the act. Van Zandt is now featuring on his LiveSecure.org Website, among other personal security products, a silent panic-button app for smartphones. Separately, a new start-up called SafeKidZone is also about to launch a new panic-button app and service for kids' mobile phones.