Appeals Court Calls Bank's Security "Commercially Unreasonable"

The United States Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed a lower court’s decision, ruling that the IT security system used by a domestic bank was not “commercially reasonable” to protect its customers. The ruling PDF, in the case of People’s United Bank formerly Ocean Bank of Maine versus Patco...

Web Security Flaws Up 10% in 2009

Almost 80% of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly reported so far this year have been in Web technologies such as Web servers, applications, plugins and Web browsers. That number is about 10% higher than the number of flaws reported in the same period last year — and nine out of 10 o...