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Few trust websites with personal information, report finds

Few trust websites with personal information, report finds

Less than one in five people are confident that websites will treat personal information properly, according to a new survey by the UK information commissioner.
René Millman Nov 21 2005 4:19PM Security
Oracle beefs up security offerings with two acquisitions

Oracle beefs up security offerings with two acquisitions

Oracle moved to shore up its IT security portfolio on Wednesday with two corporate acquisitions. The database giant said the purchase of Thor Technologies, a provider of cross-platform provisioning solutions and OctetString, a developers of virtual directory software, aimed to significantly strengthen its portfolio of identity and access management products.
William Eazel Nov 17 2005 10:47AM Security
Evil spammers put lives at risk with bogus bird flu vaccines

Evil spammers put lives at risk with bogus bird flu vaccines

Security experts have slammed unprincipled spammers for putting the lives of innocent people at risk by peddling bogus drugs online that claim to combat bird flu.
William Eazel Oct 28 2005 11:40AM Security
Debate: Traditional firewalls have outlived their usefulness and should be thrown out with the trash

Debate: Traditional firewalls have outlived their usefulness and should be thrown out with the trash
Andrew Stern Oct 21 2005 5:06PM Security
Better protection possible with lower budgets, claims Gartner

Better protection possible with lower budgets, claims Gartner

Organizations that focus on security processes and not products will be able to lower their total information security budgets while simultaneously improving their overall level of protection, Gartner claimed today.
William Eazel Oct 21 2005 10:04AM Security
IBM aims to boost SOA security with DataPower acquisition

IBM aims to boost SOA security with DataPower acquisition

In a bid to improve the security of its business application software IBM has agreed a take over of DataPower, privately-held provider of products designed help improve security and speed the processing of computer transactions.
William Eazel Oct 20 2005 10:26AM Security
Phrack falls with the leaves

Phrack falls with the leaves

The end of August also saw the end of Phrack magazine (www.phrack.org). Or did it? There are rumours about a revival, but Phrack as it stands has breathed its last.
Nick Barron Sep 5 2005 3:27PM Security
Three indicted in connection with spam operation

Three indicted in connection with spam operation

A federal grand jury in Phoenix, Ariz. has indicted three people on charges of violating the federal Can-Spam Act for operating a pornographic spam business.
Marcia Savage Aug 26 2005 4:30PM Security
Intranets are gun with safety off

Intranets are gun with safety off

Companies put themselves at risk by holding and passing too much sensitive information on their company intranets, a new report suggests.
David Quainton Aug 11 2005 11:04AM Security
3Com targets zero-day threats with reward program

3Com targets zero-day threats with reward program

In an effort to thwart zero-day attacks, 3Com is launching a program that rewards security researchers for finding vulnerabilities.
Marcia Savage Jul 22 2005 9:41PM Security
NIST gets busy with security draft

NIST gets busy with security draft

U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized a draft version of federal government computer security.
David Quainton Jul 19 2005 2:37PM Security
Spammers bypass filters with anti-phishing tech

Spammers bypass filters with anti-phishing tech

Spammers are using technology designed to prevent phishing to beat spam filters.
David Quainton Jul 13 2005 1:08PM Security
Spanish cracker hacked code with old PC

Spanish cracker hacked code with old PC

Spanish police have arrested a 26-year-old engineer in connection with hacking security mechanisms in software applications. The arrest in Galicia followed a nine-month investigation by the Brigada de Investigacion Tecnologica de la policia nacional (BIT).
René Millman Jun 23 2005 5:03PM Security
Citigroup notifies 3.9 million customers of lost tapes with their data

Citigroup notifies 3.9 million customers of lost tapes with their data

Citigroup on Monday said it is notifying 3.9 million consumer lending customers that computer tapes containing their personal data were lost by UPS while enroute to a credit bureau.
Marcia Savage Jun 6 2005 8:13PM Security
Risk associated with outbound email spurs corporate monitoring

Risk associated with outbound email spurs corporate monitoring

Sixty-three percent of companies with 1,000 or more employees use or plan to use staff to read outgoing email, according to a survey by email security supplier Proofpoint.
Marcia Savage Jun 6 2005 7:40PM Security
Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard

Yahoo teams with Cisco on email authentication standard

Yahoo and Cisco Systems have collaborated on an authentication technology that aims to thwart email forgery by verifying emails' address of origin.
Marcia Savage Jun 1 2005 8:14PM Security
Complying with identity management

Complying with identity management

In recent years a series of laws, regulations and standards have been introduced in Europe and North America, which directly or indirectly make new demands on companies’ IT security and IT risk management. Whereas in the past IT managers and security personnel largely autonomously determined a company’s IT security policy, IT administrators are now faced with the necessity of analyzing the relevant industry-specific regulations and implementing these in a range of concrete measures.
Dr. Martin May 31 2005 11:06AM Security
Number of web sites with spyware grows

Number of web sites with spyware grows

The number of web sites that install spyware is growing, according to a report released Tuesday by Webroot Software.
Marcia Savage May 2 2005 11:51PM Security
Hitachi signs with CommVault

Hitachi signs with CommVault

Hitachi Data Systems has signed up to push US-based CommVault data management and protection products worldwide.
Staff Writers Apr 14 2005 2:31PM Storage
U.C. Berkeley laptop with personal data of 98,000 stolen

U.C. Berkeley laptop with personal data of 98,000 stolen

Police at the University of California at Berkeley are investigating the theft of a laptop that contained names and Social Security numbers of more than 98,000 graduate students and applicants.
Marcia Savage Mar 29 2005 9:26PM Security

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