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The federal government has today launched a $1.2 million national security alert service to round-out its plans to sanitise Internet feeds to families and small businesses.
Darren Pauli | 06 Jun | Read more
The federal government has today launched a $1.2 million national security alert service to round-out its plans to sanitise Internet feeds to families and small businesses.
Darren Pauli | 06 Jun | Read more
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.
Matthew Broersma | 12 Jun | Read more
A security company on Friday asked for help cracking an encryption key central to an extortion scheme that demands money from users whose PCs have been infected by malware.
Gregg Keizer | 10 Jun | Read more
Paris-based bank Societe Generale made headlines when it disclosed that one of its traders made a series of unauthorized transactions over the previous few years that ultimately cost the financial institution a staggering US$7.2 billion in losses.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 29 May | Read more
While nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack, only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers, research company Gartner reports.
Robert McMillan | 25 May | Read more
With the business of Internet banking changing and online threats growing, the industry needs to adapt and integrate security technology across more channels and be more collaborative to reduce fraud, according to one electronic payments specialist.
Rodney Gedda | 21 May | Read more
The Department of Defence has chimed in on the network security debate, stating organizations need to be more proactive if they expect to ward off attackers that readily exploit the high levels of trust usually reserved for employees and known systems.
Rodney Gedda | 20 May | Read more
A controversial bill to make wiretapping easier for law enforcement was shot down by Senate last week.
Darren Pauli | 19 May | Read more
A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic.
Robert McMillan | 15 May | Read more
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tuesday.
Jon Brodkin | 14 May | Read more
A botnet is now using a SQL-injection attack tool designed to hack legitimate Web sites, a move meant to add more hijacked PCs to its collection, according to a security researcher.
Gregg Keizer | 15 May | Read more
The massive wave of SQL injection attacks that started striking Microsoft-based Web sites around the world more than a week ago claimed as one of its victims Autoweb, a UK-based advertising and marketing site.
Ellen Messmer | 02 May | Read more
It used to be easy for US Bank to determine which users and systems could be trusted, and which should be viewed with suspicion. Then along came Web 2.0.
Jon Brodkin | 01 May | Read more
A new bot can crack defenses erected by Microsoft to keep spammers from creating large numbers of accounts on its Live Hotmail service within seconds, a security researcher said Friday.
Gregg Keizer | 14 Apr | Read more
Owen Walker, the 18-year-old New Zealander also known as Akill, has pleaded guilty to all charges he was facing under the NZ Crimes Act for his part in attacking the University of Pennsylvania's computer system and in a global adware scheme.
Ulrika Hedquist | 02 Apr | Read more
Hannaford Bros. disclosed that the intruders who stole up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from the grocer's systems did so by planting malware programs on servers at each of its US grocery chain stores stores in New England, New York and Florida.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 31 Mar | Read more
There's nothing like telling a good horror story to encourage your employees -- from senior executives to rank-and-file workers -- to do their part in improving IT security.
Matt Hines | 20 Mar | Read more
Gregory Kopiloff, a US man who pleaded guilty last November to stealing identity information over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 20 Mar | Read more
Savvy IT shops which encourage overlap between security and network administration have averted war ignited by recent efforts to merge the two groups.
Darren Pauli | 28 Feb | Read more
Using peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications on the job raises the risk that confidential data residing on a user's PC might be inadvertently exposed to a cybercriminal, says the head of a security vendor.
Kathleen Lau | 15 Feb | Read more