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posted in May 2007
5/31/2007
The man who has been on the Spamhaus "worst of the worst" spammers list faces multiple charges and up to 75 years in prison.
5/31/2007
The American Kennel Club reports bogus e-mails are conning people out of big bucks with promises of cute puppies that are never delivered.
5/31/2007
The scammer calls a military spouse and tries to get personal information by telling him or her that a loved one was injured in Iraq.
5/31/2007
Google's purchase of an antivirus company has industry analysts talking about Google diving into the enterprise apps market, as well as adding security to its toolbar.
5/30/2007
For the second time this month, Apple released a security update to fix vulnerabilities in its QuickTime media player.
5/30/2007
Users of the open-source browser will now be encouraged to migrate to Firefox 2.
5/30/2007
One IT administrator told researchers that he snoops simply because he can do it without being caught.
5/29/2007
The security company's board elected William Roper Jr. to replace Stratton Sclavos as CEO and serve as president, and elected Edward Mueller as chairman.
5/29/2007
Is the security software that protects against malware and spyware by quarantining Internet sessions from the rest of the system destined for Google's toolbar?
5/29/2007
The Defense Department reports that the People's Liberation Army is moving beyond traditional battlefields and into cyberspace.
5/29/2007
Exploit code has been released for a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable a remote hacker to take control of a system.
5/29/2007
A new spam scam is teasing users to open a malicious attachment with promises of free tickets to see Pirates of the Caribbean 3.
5/25/2007
A GAO study of the FBI's IT security shows that the bureau has weaknesses that leave it wide open to insider abuses.
5/25/2007
For the second time in three months, the Better Business Bureau's name has been used to run a scam on unsuspecting businesses.
5/25/2007
A Webroot survey shows that more than half of kids are shopping online, while 43% of teens using social network sites have been solicited by a stranger in the past year.
5/24/2007
The University of Colorado at Boulder says the faulty antivirus software exposed sensitive information on nearly 45,000 students.
5/24/2007
As more companies deploy cool Web 2.0 technologies, careful planning is required to avoid new kinds of security problems.
5/23/2007
IBM intends to deliver an intrusion prevention system at the end of June that will be fast enough to take on the network core.
5/23/2007
With news of lost data becoming common, the security company's new CEO said at Interop that McAfee can help solve the problem.
5/22/2007
Dave DeWalt tells an Interop audience that McAfee is in a position to take on the growing business market that is springing up around cyber crime.
5/22/2007
A new study shows that IT managers are intrigued about Vista's new on-board security, along with user account control and an overall sense of better safeguards.
5/22/2007
The telecom equipment provider is the latest company to report the loss of identifying information on its current and retired employees and their dependents.
5/22/2007
Among companies that have suffered a data breach, 74% reported a loss of customers and 59% faced potential litigation, the Ponemon survey shows.
5/22/2007
I was flying out to Interop Monday morning when I heard two execs a row ahead of me talking about a big upcoming product announcement. They might as well have just chucked all their expensive corporate security technologies out the window.
5/21/2007
Websense, Citrix Systems, and others kick off the Interop conference with product announcements.
5/21/2007
Two leading Democrats say the August shutdown of a nuclear facility in Alabama could have been caused by a denial-of-service attack and needs to be investigated.
5/18/2007
Criminal cybergangs are trying to steal zombie computers from rival botnets so they can boost their own numbers and raise the price they get from spammers.
5/17/2007
The security company has issued a product update to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability in an ActiveX control.
5/17/2007
The retailer's quarterly earnings statement showed the massive security breach is expected to cost up to 3 cents per share, on top of the current expenses.
5/17/2007
The woman admitted to printing out classified documents, downloading others onto a thumb drive, and taking the information home.
5/16/2007
A CompTIA survey shows security technologies are eclipsing nearly all other issues that IT professionals expect to deal with this year.
5/16/2007
In eight lawsuits, Symantec alleges that the businesses engaged in trademark infringement, copyright infringement, fraud, unfair competition, trafficking in counterfeit labels and documentation, and false advertising.
5/16/2007
A contractor lost the tapes containing sensitive information while driving through New York State to a storage facility back in February.
5/16/2007
With so much going on at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, we've pulled out 10 cool things you should check out while you're there.
5/15/2007
Taking a few pages from the CSO Boot Camp at Interop, here are five things you should know or be able to do to become a CSO in today's market.
5/15/2007
Secure Computing launched its Domain Health Check, a free service that offers users a report on their sites' good or bad reputation.
5/15/2007
Global piracy losses increased in 2006 by 15% over 2005. Of the 102 countries covered in this year's study, piracy rates dropped moderately in 62 countries, but went up in 13 countries.
5/14/2007
Prabhat Goyal faces a maximum of 150 years in prison for filing false reports with the SEC, among other charges.
5/11/2007
The software maker hosted the two-day conference to get updates on the security landscape from the researcher and hacking communities.
5/11/2007
With a class action lawsuit looming, three politicians question the head of the Department of Homeland Security about the lost hard drive.
5/11/2007
The suspect allegedly opened at least 35 accounts with online brokerages using stolen identities.
5/10/2007
In a case of espionage inside the White House, the technology that fed the plot also helped the government track down the conspirators and build a case against them.
5/10/2007
With data heading out the door over remote connections or on thumb drives tucked away in pockets or bags, nearly half of IT workers blame poor security.
5/9/2007
A new survey shows that 38% of IT professionals say they're working round the clock because their BlackBerry devices and smartphones keep them tied to the office.
5/9/2007
The courtroom star witness pleaded guilty to faking his credentials, possibly putting several cases in question.
5/9/2007
The IT staff at the University of Missouri was alerted to the attack by a series of faulty queries to an application and database.
5/8/2007
The vulnerabilities being fixed include a highly critical bug in Microsoft Exchange and a zero-day flaw in the DNS Server Service.
5/8/2007
The government agency that protects the nation's airports reported that it can't find a hard drive, and it's unclear if it's lost or stolen.
5/8/2007
New e-mails advertising an online prostitute finder could invite more trouble to your PC than at first glance, the security software company said.
5/7/2007
Hoping to keep inmates from an Iowa maximum security prison from finding the keys to their release on an eBay auction, prison authorities were forced to change the locks on one penitentiary.
5/7/2007
A survey of IT managers showed that while more than half use a USB flash drive on a daily basis, many still view portable storage devices as a huge security threat.
5/7/2007
After taking on Windows and the Mac, the Month of Bugs project is taking on ActiveX controls and, so far, researchers say they've found two critical flaws.
5/7/2007
The Michigan man bought counterfeit software and then resold it in 49 different auctions on eBay.
5/2/2007
Coverity's new software seeks out flaws using multiple code analysis engines, along with a resolution system.
5/2/2007
The data breach at the major retailer will cost the company $100 per lost record, according to database security firm IPLocks.
5/2/2007
Now that a fix is out for the vulnerability, researchers say they expect hackers will use it to reverse-engineer the flaw and quickly create an exploit.
5/1/2007
A matter of weeks after a congressional hearing about the security of government agencies, a committee levels 13 questions at the CIO of the Department of Homeland Security.
5/1/2007
The debit and credit cards would come with built-in authentication in the form of an embedded algorithm that flashes a one-time-use password on an LCD screen right on the card.
5/1/2007
Researchers saw a new variant of the virulent Sober worm being heavily spammed out a few days ago. The first Sober worm hit in October 2003.
5/1/2007
Old-timers like the Netsky, Mytob, and Bagle worms accounted for a large portion of the malware circulating on the Internet last month.
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