Ericka Chickowski

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IronPort: Malicious bounces cost businesses $5 billion

IronPort: Malicious bounces cost businesses $5 billion

A new study by IronPort revealed this week that helpdesk costs related to misdirected bounce messages account for more than $5 billion in enterprise damages each year.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 28 2006 6:46PM Security
University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years

University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years

More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 26 2006 6:07AM Security
Symantec content scanner contains flaws

Symantec content scanner contains flaws

Symantec released a security advisory late last week for three vulnerabilities in the Symantec Scan Engine that could potentially allow remote access to the scan engine and give users the ability to open man-in-the-middle attacks.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 24 2006 9:35PM Security
Most colleges lack online privacy statements

Most colleges lack online privacy statements

A national survey of privacy practices found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, in spite of the fact that almost all of these schools engage in practices that put individuals’ privacy at risk.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 24 2006 8:15PM Security
DOJ snags San Diego man for USC breach

DOJ snags San Diego man for USC breach

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday that it charged a San Diego man for hacking into the University of Southern California’s student application system and accessing personal records.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 21 2006 9:45PM Security
Entrust to try PKI market

Entrust to try PKI market

Entrust will enter the managed public key infrastructure (PKI) service fray by the end of this year’s second quarter, company officials said last week.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 20 2006 9:23PM Security
Kaspersky introduces mobile anti-virus software

Kaspersky introduces mobile anti-virus software

Kaspersky Lab announced last week that it is testing a beta version of new mobile anti-virus software for smart phones.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 17 2006 8:25PM Security
Your tax info may not be as secure as you think

Your tax info may not be as secure as you think

A rule change proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has come under fire from privacy advocates who have taken issue with a clause allowing tax preparers to sell tax-return information to third parties.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 14 2006 9:22PM Security
The worm turns on Apple

The worm turns on Apple

Macintosh enthusiasts have long used the security of their systems as a flag to wave in the faces of their Windows-using counterparts. With the recent announcement of some key holes in Mac OS X, that flag is drooping.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 14 2006 8:14PM Security
P2P attacks multiplying

P2P attacks multiplying

A report that studied instant messenger (IM) and peer-to-peer (P2P) security attacks showed that while incidents targeting public IM channels stabilized last quarter, the number of P2P and multi-channel attacks are rapidly increasing.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 11 2006 10:26PM Security
IBM unveils new processor encryption technology

IBM unveils new processor encryption technology

IBM announced today that it is changing the way security can be built into devices and consumer products.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 10 2006 9:44PM Security
Researchers detail why phishing works

Researchers detail why phishing works

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley released a paper last week on why users fall for phishing scams, concluding that current anti-phishing deterrents are ineffective.
Ericka Chickowski Apr 6 2006 9:57PM Security
Microsoft to slow down ActiveX controls

Microsoft to slow down ActiveX controls

An ongoing patent infringement case will force Microsoft to weaken ActiveX controls within Internet Explorer (IE) within the next month.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 30 2006 11:54PM Security
Nash to go on sabbatical from Redmond

Nash to go on sabbatical from Redmond

By June, Microsoft will initiate a changing of the guard within its security group.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 29 2006 10:55PM Security
Check Point: Delays, political climate to blame for cancelled merger

Check Point: Delays, political climate to blame for cancelled merger

Check Point Technologies and Sourcefire said yesterday that they are terminating a $225 million merger that came under intense scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
Ericka Chickowski Mar 24 2006 9:20PM Security
New charges against Rizler

New charges against Rizler

Christopher William Smith, the notorious spam lord known as Rizler, faced new charges yesterday for allegedly conspiring to kill a witness connected to his prescription drug spam trial.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 23 2006 11:13PM Security
Toulouse: Apple soft on security

Toulouse: Apple soft on security

Microsoft’s security response communications manager recently criticized the way Apple handles its security update communications, noting it’s ill-prepared to handle what’s bound to be an increasing number of security problems in coming years.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 23 2006 10:32PM Security
IT pros not setting security configurations

IT pros not setting security configurations

Most IT security professionals still manually update their security setting configurations, according to survey results released this week by St. Bernard Software.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 23 2006 10:13PM Security
Vista delayed again

Vista delayed again

Microsoft’s Windows Vista platform suffered another release delay, as the computing giant announced yesterday that most versions of the OS won’t be made available until next year due to quality control concerns.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 22 2006 10:28PM Security
Familiar names funding adware firms

Familiar names funding adware firms

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) pulled the covers off adware’s "dirty little secret" this week with the release of its latest report.
Ericka Chickowski Mar 21 2006 9:27PM Security

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