Security comment and opinion on the latest developments in IT security

An animated video of Google’s CEO as a creepy ice cream man makes a strong impression, but are privacy advocates just fighting the future, asks Clint Boulton

Countries from India to the UAE don’t like secrets, especially when they’re held by their own citizens, but banning BlackBerry is shortsighted and futile, says Wayne Rash

Rich Internet Applications could be the next corporate development frontier, but developers must consider the security implications, says Larry Seltzer

If Intel wanted anti-virus, it would have licensed McAfee. This deal is about something much bigger, says Wayne Rash

Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather than layer it on, says Eric Lundquist

The new breed of cyber criminal is gaining the trust of his victims by mimicking legitimate IT services organisations, warns Larry Walsh

IT security is often ring-fenced in IT budgets. But maybe it’s time to tear down that fence and save cash and carbon, says Andrew Donoghue

As embedded security become the norm, vendors talk about it less and less, but embedded security shouldn’t be assumed security, says Larry Walsh

The US Copyright Office recently gave its approval for the jailbreaking of mobile devices, turning phones into commodities, says PJ Connolly

As the power, storage and data demands on smartphones continue to grow, the greater the security threat to these devices will become, says Larry Walsh

A rogue anti-virus scam run from a call centres in India threatens to tarnish the reputation of Microsoft’s genuine reseller partners in the UK