As US federal law enforcement officials are finding out, there comes a point when the quest for ubiquitous computing becomes a security nightmare.

Security audits can be so detailed as to be useless. How do you fix, say, 60,000 individual “holes” in your network? Where do you start? This is a problem that folks in the government and other private groups have begun to solve.

The good news: by 2010, computers should match the human brain in processing power. The bad news: by decade’s end, wireless-based viruses, hacking, and security breaches will be a major headache for IT administrators.

Company policies range from laissez faire to completely banning outside devices, for fear of opening the network to the risk of attack. With virus companies offering firewalls and virus scanners for PDAs, do companies need to worry or is it all hype to sell more security software?

The MD Andersen Cancer Center in Houston last week abruptly put an 18-month effort to provide wireless LAN access to 11,000 users on its five building campus on hold due to security concerns.

How do you know that you've covered all the bases when it comes to wireless LAN security?

The starry-eyed have given way to the hard-eyed at this year's Wireless Sensing Solutions Conference.

Cisco this week is unveiling a raft of products designed to allow customers to implement a consistent set of security, unified communications, application acceleration and wireless services at remote sites.

Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver.

The mobile phones being sold on the shelves during the 2006 holiday season should be a lot more secure than this year's crop, thanks to a new mobile security specification that is expected to be released in the first half of 2006.

There's plenty of hype about chief privacy officers, but some say their main function is PR. Is that such a bad thing?

WLANs continue to creep in to the enterprise, but security concerns hamper widespread adoption

In the weeks and months after 9/11, three CIOs working next door to the World Trade Center found they had to be strong leaders to get their companies back online. Now back in the city, they don't make business continuity plans. They live them.

Wireless LANs became the industry's laughingstock when reports surfaced about "parking lot attacks" on corporate networks. Now, WLANs are shaping up as the battleground for enhanced security products that could lead the way for the entire network industry.

The man charged with protecting New Zealand’s critical infrastructure says the recent cyberterrorism threat made by an al-Qaeda associate is just the latest in a series since September 11 last year.