Consumer Threats Articles

Tech coalition asks judge to toss out Zango appeal

Jim Carr May 07, 2008

Security companies should pay close attention to how an appeals court rules in the case of accused adware maker Zango versus anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab.
 

Yahoo and McAfee team to secure search results

Dan Kaplan May 06, 2008

Users of Yahoo's search engine can now traverse the internet with some body armor thanks to a partnership with McAfee that was announced Tuesday.
 

Massive hacker server discovered

Chuck Miller May 06, 2008

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.
 

Mozilla Messaging fixes five bugs in Thunderbird email client

Jim Carr May 05, 2008

The Mozilla Foundation's Mozilla Messaging subsidiary has released patches for five flaws in its Thunderbird e-mail client.
 

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.
 

Report: small merchants biggest threat to credit card fraud

Jim Carr May 01, 2008

Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report.
 

From Interop: Be mindful of vendors' motives

Dan Kaplan April 30, 2008

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.
 

Major botnet infiltrated

Chuck Miller April 30, 2008

The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely.
 

Microsoft goes on defensive in massive SQL injection attacks

Jim Carr April 29, 2008

Microsoft has gone on the defensive in the massive SQL injection attack that has hit websites running the company's Internet Information Services web server and SQL Server products.
 

Access by health care personnel is main security concern

Sue Marquette Poremba April 29, 2008

User access is the number one IT security concern among healthcare workers, according to a study conducted by Courion.
 
 
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