The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the state of Maryland, and Montgomery County have teamed to establish the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a $10 million public-private center for accelerating adoption of cybersecurity tools and technologies.

The Financial Information Exchange, a Beijing-based financial service platform owned by Xinhua News Agency, has launched a global network based on quantum communication technology to improve security and efficiency.

A Zeusbot/Spyeye variant is using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network architecture, rather than a simple bot to command-and-control (C&C) server system, making the botnet much harder to take down.

The director of the Iranian passive defense organization, brigadier general Gholamreza Jalali, has been discussing a new Iranian cyber army.

A new survey on attitudes towards passwords indicates an apparent contradiction: most people want stricter password security policies, but don’t bother changing their own default passwords.

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Tablet Security: A Bitter PillEveryone wants a tablet, but securing them is a challenge, warns Danny Bradbury

Interview: EA's Spencer Mott From London’s Metropolitan Police to VP and CISO at Electronic Arts, Spencer Mott has had a colorful career with little end in sight. Here, he talks to Eleanor Dallaway about what the information security industry is up against, how the Sony breach impacted the whole industry, and how EA suffered a breach of its own in 2011

The Approaching Mobility MaelstromLast year Drew Amorosi polled the Infosecurity editorial board on their predictions for 2011. This year he decided to broaden the sample and find out what the rest of the industry are talking about. What he received was an overdose of mobile security warnings

Comment: Make PCI DSS Part of Your Security StrategyJeremy King, European director of the PCI Security Standards Council, describes how recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed PCI has been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account fraud

A Superior (infosec) Education As the information security industry becomes more coveted, Wendy M. Grossman takes a look at the university courses available to aspiring and competing infosec professionals on both sides of the Atlantic

Comment: APT Tops Security Risks to Corporate IP in 2012Verdasys’ Bill Ledingham shares his insights on advanced persistent threats (APT) and offers steps companies can take to increase their cybersecurity

Comment: Information Assurance as a Flexible Security SolutionChris Mayers of Citrix UK outlines how the public sector can meet confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements in the face of ongoing regulatory and technological change

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Insider ThreatsWhether intentional or unintentional, insider threats take many forms. The (ISC)² US Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau examines this dichotomy and how it is being affected by both regulatory considerations, and the rapidly changing technology landscape

Infosecurity: Do You Eat Your Own Dog Food?How many traffic policemen never exceed the speed limit when off duty? How many vicars don’t swear? And how many IT security professionals practice what they preach? No, seriously, do you eat your own dog food? That’s the question Davey Winder has been asking of infosec professionals in an attempt to determine just how secure security experts really are away from the office

Compliance Strategies – A.K.A. Alphabet SoupDoes your organization follow a recipe, or simply ‘eye-up’ the ingredients to your compliance tick boxes? Fred Donovan taste-tests what is often viewed as the unsavory side of the information security profession