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Security vendor AVG Technologies could be launching its initial public offering on Thursday.

New studies show SharePoint continuing to grow as a tool to let end users share documents securely. Unfortunately, most of them seem to feel entitled to take those documents out of SharePoint security and even mail them to third parties, removing all security permanently.

Free Wi-Fi tools come in handy. Here are several free programs you can use to do Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying on all the popular platforms.

The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about an email scam being perpetrated under its name.

From Bruce Schneier to Moxie Marlinspike, these folks are the ones to listen to for security insight

Following the raid that collapsed the first, most ad hoc, most effective of the Occupy Wall Street movement occupations, hacktivists go back online, flaming in frustration, but also prepping for the next stage.

In the weeks since Steve Jobs' death Apple has embodied only his worse qualities: control freakishness, pettiness, selfishness, secretiveness. There's no telling yet if he left behind any of his good characteristics.

Experts disagree if the new Duqu remote access kit is the tool of a national intelligence agency or just a virus. It's possible the data-thieving, super-smart, oh-so-subtle virus is purely criminal, which would completely change the way we think about digital industrial espionage.

Facebook just added another security feature than may actually make its users more vulnerable. 29% of those accounts are compromised every year, though possibly only half that number are hacked. Still that failure rate would get any security geek fired. With real fire.

Yet another reputation management service strives to help you get a handle on how you look on the Web. But Intelius's TrueRep is a work in progress at best.

A new survey by security vendor McAfee reveals that both data center managers and enterprise executives ignore potential security issues.