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Latest News

Counterfeit networking gear: A security threat?

Jim Carr May 13, 2008

Counterfeit networking equipment could jeopardize the security of U.S. military and other government systems.

Foreign hackers sniff out credit card data

Chuck Miller May 12, 2008

Foreign hackers have compromised cash register terminals at 11 Dave & Buster's restaurants around the United States. The scheme resulted in losses of some $600,000.

Gasoline spam hits inboxes

Sue Marquette Poremba May 12, 2008

A new type of spam focuses on consumers' frustrations with high gas prices, according to McAfee Avert Labs.

Personal info on six million Chileans posted

Greg Masters May 12, 2008

A hacker has exposed the personal information of about six million Chilean people.

Report: Vista more vulnerable than Windows 2000

Jim Carr May 11, 2008

A vendor of anti-spyware and anti-virus software has released a report saying that Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's latest operating system, is more susceptible to malware than the company's Windows 2000.

Stolen data could fetch in the thousands

Sue Marquette Poremba May 09, 2008

The going price for stolen information is like any other commodity: the higher the quality, the higher the price.

Microsoft to push out four patches, three critical

Dan Kaplan May 09, 2008

Microsoft announced late Thursday that it plans to push out four patches, three to address critical vulnerabilities, in next week's monthly security update.

Rare SCADA vulnerability discovered

Report says C-level execs more involved with security

Compromised file found in language pack for Firefox

FBI cancels request for information on library patron

Website attacks continue

FTC halts spammer hawking adult sites

It's heeere: Windows XP Service Pack 3 released

Tech coalition asks judge to toss out Zango appeal

Latest Opinions

Secrets stolen? No, just the intellectual property

Christopher Burgess, co-author, "Secrets Stolen, Fortunes Lost" May 08, 2008

World Intellectual Property Day has come and gone, but not for my book -- thanks to anonymous malfeasance on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.

Optimizing fraud: Yes, there is a silver lining

Gene Hoffman, chairman and CEO, Vindicia May 05, 2008

Online retail success invariably begets fraud, and in the case of many online merchants this fraud takes the form of chargebacks.

Hot or Not: Winning against the phishing assault

Amol Sarwate, manager of the vulnerability research lab at Qualys April 29, 2008

A look at two of the signing technologies PayPal plans to use to improve sent email authentication, which would allow ISPs to drop each email that isn't properly verified.

Rethinking virus protection

Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec Corp. April 22, 2008

With the growth of malicious programs currently outpacing that of legitimate applications, and traditional countermeasures proving inadequate, consumers and security vendors may need to join forces to ward off threats.

Online identity theft: Who's after my Facebook password?

The legal implications of the PCI data security standard

The importance of recursive DNS

Pirates of the web

Protecting the IPTV/VoD infrastructure

Why not telework?

Closing a tough security gap

Hot or Not: Virtualization Security

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