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A Department of Homeland Security report indicates that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has failed to correct a series of "significant" security deficiencies in its financial system.

iTunes users in Apple's support forum say they're downgrading back to iTunes 9.2.1.

Moving to improve user privacy, Google has made it easier to understand the company's privacy policies and to find its privacy tools.

Security goes beyond encryption, authentication, and monitoring employees. We also need to ensure privileged users aren't betraying trust. Here's how.

Though state agencies have resumed IT operations, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency and Northrop Grumman, which has apologized for a more than weeklong failure, are still working to recover data.

Stuxnet served to catalyze concerns about smart grid security, which the 537-page "Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security" strives to address by providing security requirements and a risk assessment framework.

Users can view their active sessions of the social network and shut them down from one central control.

The VMworld closing general session in San Francisco showcased potential advances in the user interface that may allow more direct interaction with computer systems.

IBM's ranking of software vendors by vulnerabilities is riddled with errors, so Google intervenes and goes from worst to first.

No contract, $30 a month unlimited data plans are planned for some smartphones including select Motorola and HTC Droid handsets and some RIM BlackBerry models.

Defense Department agency to develop system that can identify and stop people from removing information from its networks.

A novel manufacturing process for shape-memory alloys could bring shape-shifting jewelery and transforming stents.

Citigroup says the z196's record-setting chips help deliver massive performance increase and flexibility that will result in greater innovation and value for customers.

The latest version of Google's modeling software offers improved tools to amateur and professional 3D artists alike.

Markle Foundation recommends HHS push "blue button" function in health IT systems to allow patients to easily obtain medical records.

NeoSpire's director of security, Sean Bruton, discusses the realities of cloud security and the key questions to ask when assessing a hosted or cloud service provider's claims.

Private clouds inside the enterprise will trade workloads with similar, VMware-based public clouds rendering physical data centers "quite fluid," according to CEO Paul Maritz.

Isolated reports of failures do not reflect a widespread collapse of the service, Google says.