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Apple has revealed that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6 will showcase iOS 5 and iCloud, a cloud computing service. iOS 5 is the latest iteration of Apple's mobile operating system, and will likely introduce new features for compatible devices.

BNP Media, parent company of Security magazine, has partnered with BirdDog Career Centers to provide job placement and career counseling solutions for the security markets.

One of Nova Scotia's largest public sector unions is trying to get the word bully in workplace violence regulations.

 

Workplace suicides in 2009 matched the record-high level they hit in 2008, according to data released by the U.S. Labor Department.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Arizona’s law requiring mandatory use of the federal E-Verify system for employers hiring new workers. In a decision released May 26, the Supreme Court voted 5-3 to uphold Arizona’s immigration law.

New figures show 122 current or former U.S. federal agents and employees of the Customs and Border Protection agency have been arrested or indicted for corruption since October 2004.  In addition, 92 of those cases were considered instances of “Mission Compromising Corruption,” in which the employee violated, or facilitated the violation of the laws the agency enforces -- such as those related to the smuggling of drugs or illegal aliens.

 

Twenty-eight percent of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, a CDW poll found, with most reporting (73 percent) that their first step into the cloud was implementation of a single cloud application.

Expedia’s Trip Advisor, email marketing provider Epsilon, Sony’s online entertainment services, professional engineering society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. They all suffered some kind of a data breach in the first four months of 2011. At one point, it seemed like there was at least one new security breach being reported every week. Here are eWeek's 10 biggest data breaches of 2011 to date.

A Massachusetts man is facing larceny charges for allegedly producing millions of dollars' worth of counterfeit monthly passes for Boston area public transportation lines that were then sold online at discounted rates.

It would be illegal for Rhode Island businesses to ask for any part of a customer's Social Security number under legislation endorsed by the state Senate.