Questions over whether CloudFlare exaggerated the impact of the denial of service attacks on Spamhaus should not be allowed to divert attention away from the real security threat highlighted by the attacks.

Any distributed denial of service attack involving 300Gbps of traffic -- or even half that amount -- is noteworthy, regardless of whether it choked portions of the Internet or not.

If beleaguered Notre Dame football linebacker Manti Te’o’s story about being duped by an online imposter were true, he certainly wouldn’t be the first -- or the last – person to fall victim to such a hoax.

For all the effort that is being put by enterprises, government and vendors into combating cyber threats, there are still a few areas where progress has been slow at best and non-existent at worst. Here in no particular order are four cybersecurity items that need more action and less talk.

People concerned about the privacy implications of civilian drones operating over American airspace are likely to be disappointed by a recent industry “Code of Conduct” released by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

The Veterans Administration A finally has an explanation for why subscribers to its List Serve (including myself), kept getting copied in on Unsubscribe requests and sundry irate messages from other subscribers all day Monday. Turns out the problem was caused by a “glitch” in the settings for the subscriber list that caused unsubscribe requests and message replies to be sent to everyone on the subscriber list,

A Computerworld story from March 2011 gets a new life and a new twist after being picked up by a U.K. music news website.

Many mobile apps that users routinely download and use on their smartphones have extensive access to services running on the device. That could be a big security problem for enterprises.

Sooner or later, industry will find a way to shrink the window of vulnerability that cyber criminals exploit these days, says the executive chairman of RSA.

Despite some serious setbacks, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are still alive and still contain several controversial provisions.

A proposed bill that is designed to make it harder for offshore sites to sell counterfeit U.S products and copyrighted content gives content and IP owners way too much power, critics contend.