OMB mandates use of DNSSEC in gov't agencies

Dan Kaplan August 29, 2008

A White House office is ordering all federal agencies to implement a new standard for securing DNS connections.
 

Spammers bypass filters with SWF file redirects

Sue Marquette Poremba August 28, 2008

Spammers are stepping up their use of Shockwave Flash file redirects to avoid detection.
 

Forensics show millions of more victims in BNY Mellon breach

Dan Kaplan August 28, 2008

A forensic examiniation has revealed that the personal data of millions more than originally reported was contained on a missing Bank of New York Mellon storage tape.
 

Hacker Gary McKinnon loses appeal, U.S. extradition looms

Paul Fisher August 28, 2008

Gary McKinnon, the alleged NASA hacker, has failed in his last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to have his extradition to the United States quashed.
 

Picture of "kidnapped babies" hides trojan

Joy Persaud August 27, 2008

A new spam campaign that tells the recipient that their baby has been kidnapped is in fact a vehicle for the computer virus Troj/Resex-Fam.
 

Worm hits unsecured space station laptops

Joy Persaud August 27, 2008

A virus has infected laptops on the International Space Station.
 

Linux administrators warned of SSH key attacks

Dan Kaplan August 26, 2008

Attackers are using compromised SSH keys to launch in-the-wild attacks against Linux-based computing environments, US-CERT warned Tuesday.
 

Data breaches already surpass 2007 total

Sue Marquette Poremba August 26, 2008

The number of reported data breaches has already surpassed last year's total, according to a report from Identity Theft Resource Center.
 

Microsoft unveils privacy controls in Internet Explorer 8

Dan Kaplan August 26, 2008

Microsoft has confirmed speculation that it will include new privacy controls in its next Internet Explorer release.
 

Medical identity thefts on the rise

Sue Marquette Poremba August 25, 2008

Medical identity theft is increasing, in part because of the wealth of personal information available in medical records. And much of this identity theft is coming from within the medical community.
 
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