Fewer than half of personal devices used for work have basic security protections, and the numbers are even lower for smart phones and tablets, a new survey finds.

A virus that hit the Economic Development Administration in January has forced employees to work by faxes, postal mail and phone calls ever since.

At FOSE, a system that depicts botnet infections, including within agencies, and other new products show that innovation is alive and well.

The term advanced persistent threat has become a buzzword that many security pros prefer to avoid, but it remains a useful description of a serious threat.

Customs and Border Protection took down documents included in a solicitation for the "virtual border fence" project that may have included proprietary contractor information.

The hacker collective Anonymous is going after the Chinese government, posting messages on several local government websites protesting Internet restrictions in China.

A SANS Institute study found that only 9 percent of organizations are "fully aware" of the personal mobile devices accessing their networks.

In a security landscape that ranges from merely gloomy to extremely gloomy, you can't keep attackers out, but you can make sure it's not worth their while, experts said at the FOSE conference.