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posted in June 2007
6/29/2007
Gartner analysts are warning IT managers to expect a flood of requests to support Apple's new iPhone, but to just say no.
6/29/2007
A White House mandate to conform to one security configuration on Windows XP and Windows Vista systems should "radically reduce" vulnerabilities.
6/28/2007
Security company offers parents safety tips, along with a free handbook with a glossary of terms and ideas for keeping children safe online.
6/28/2007
A study shows that spammers and phishers are playing on our biggest fears and our biggest desires.
6/28/2007
The phony e-mails are set up to appear to be notifying recipients that someone has filed a complaint against them or their business with the Department of Justice.
6/27/2007
Malicious code embedded in about two dozen MySpace pages downloads the dangerous FluxBot onto victims' machines.
6/27/2007
Even though Microsoft doesn't e-mail users with patch notices, a hacker is duping users with a phony spammed security update.
6/27/2007
The security professionals at Microsoft made Popular Science magazine's notorious and tongue-in-cheek list of Worst Jobs in Science 2007.
6/27/2007
Sophos reports that a malware writer is taking advantage of a popular animation that people have been e-mailing to friends for years.
6/27/2007
Each defendant faces up to five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, and three years of supervised release. They're slated to be sentenced in November.
6/26/2007
The download fixes remote code execution bugs and other flaws in both its Safari Web browser beta and Mac OS X.
6/26/2007
Both men now face up to 30 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines.
6/26/2007
The feds called Hew Raymond Griffiths one of the most notorious leaders of the underground Internet piracy community. His extradition was one of the first for an intellectual property offense.
6/22/2007
Mi5 is releasing a high-speed appliance designed to detect and shut down botnet activity -- something the Celtics have been looking for.
6/22/2007
The Secretary of Defense said the e-mail system in the Office of the Secretary of Defense was penetrated and computers were taken offline to stop the breach.
6/21/2007
The device was stolen after a state intern took it home as part of a policy that called for one backup device to be kept offsite.
6/21/2007
Security researchers at IBM admire the iPhone's apparent security but note it will suffer from its fair share of attacks.
6/21/2007
Companies can learn a few lessons from the security missteps and weaknesses at the Department of Homeland Security. Here are some tips to reduce your vulnerability.
6/21/2007
After a heated congressional hearing on cybersecurity Wednesday, two major security players say there may be many more breaches than reported.
6/20/2007
With testimony about 844 "cybersecurity incidents" in two-year span at Department of Homeland Security, one congressman asks why its CIO still has his job.
6/20/2007
A security researcher says threats can lurk even in the most benign online searches and Web sites.
6/20/2007
In the past week, two fake video postings have been set up on YouTube to infect users with a Trojan that includes pop-up porn ads, Secure Computing warns.
6/19/2007
IBM is working on several products -- all under a new Enterprise 2.0 initiative -- to help companies adopt Web 2.0 technologies.
6/19/2007
Speakers at the Enterprise 2.0 conference say the next generation of employees will demand workplace access to blogs, wikis, and social networking sites.
6/19/2007
The security company, which is enhancing its new product to appeal to gamers, issued a challenge that offers up gaming consoles as prizes.
6/18/2007
Andrew McAfee and Tom Davenport opened the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston by debating whether Web 2.0 technology will revolutionize the way companies do business.
6/18/2007
Nearly half of IT and compliance professionals say their companies aren't doing enough to cut data loss, and many also say it's only going to get worse.
6/15/2007
Mozilla programmers are touching most of the software components to increase performance, make the code base more modular and deal with new security threats.
6/14/2007
The government is notifying ISPs of the 1 million botnet victims identified as part of Operation Bot Roast, and it will be up to the ISPs to warn its infected users.
6/14/2007
Just days after researchers started pulling up a plethora of vulnerabilities in Apple's Safari for Windows beta release, the company issued an updated version to patch three flaws.
6/14/2007
Consumer-oriented technologies and services, like blogs, IM and MP3 players, are creating huge holes in enterprise safeguards, a Gartner report warns.
6/13/2007
As the FBI and the Justice Department investigated botnet operators, they began amassing a list of the alleged botnet victims -- with most of them here in the United States.
6/13/2007
Websense researchers report 40 to 50 malicious sites are taking advantage of critical vulnerabilities in the instant messenger.
6/13/2007
Sophos is warning IT managers and Web site hosts to be watchful for cybercriminals putting graphic language and links to porn sites in forums and message boards.
6/12/2007
Researchers report pulling up bug after bug in the brand new code of Apple's Web browser for Windows XP.
6/12/2007
Six of the critical flaws are in Windows software and another six are in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
6/12/2007
Adam Vitale faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
6/12/2007
Jeffrey Brett Goodin faced a maximum of 101 years behind bars but received only 70 months during his sentencing for e-mail fraud Monday afternoon.
6/11/2007
The University of Virginia and the University of Iowa are both reporting that they have suffered breaches that compromised faculty or student information.
6/11/2007
Talk about too much information... Yahoo's description of Messenger vulnerability led a hacker right to it.
6/11/2007
The content protection software, which just went into beta testing, is aimed curtailing the rampant rate of data breaches.
6/8/2007
Air traffic controllers at two major U.S. airports had to move flights in and out with hand-written airline schedules.
6/8/2007
Symantec is working on new Norton AntiBot software, which is aimed at protecting desktops and laptops from becoming part of a botnet.
6/8/2007
The company was quick to issue a fix for a buffer overflow problem in its instant messenger software that could give hackers control of an infected system.
6/8/2007
Julie Amero's legal nightmare should be a wake-up call to IT administrators who could ultimately be responsible for what's on their users' monitors.
6/7/2007
Among the security updates coming in next week's Patch Tuesday are two for Windows Vista flaws and one for Internet Explorer.
6/7/2007
A spokesman for CA said the software company had previously known about the flaws and had already started working on patches for them.
6/7/2007
Federal regulations and a growing fear of China's cyber capabilities are helping to drive up salaries for security professionals.
6/6/2007
Security company eEye Digital Security, which found the bugs, gave them its highest security threat rating because they enable remote code execution.
6/6/2007
Researchers at eEye Digital Security say they discovered the 10 buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can each enable remote code execution.
6/6/2007
Former DoD civilian employee Jesse Lane Jr. has pleaded guilty to accessing a government computer to set up thousands of dollars in fraudulent payments.
6/6/2007
A federal prosecutor said William Johns was let go from a wireless installation job before using a computer kiosk in a visitors' lobby to delete needed passwords and files.
6/5/2007
Microsoft said it is investigating "claims" of vulnerabilities, while Mozilla released information today on two flaws.
6/5/2007
The FBI's investigation into a January attack on an Illinois state agency's server is pointing away from an inside job.
6/5/2007
An IBM security director is estimating that the 7,247 software vulnerabilities disclosed last year are a fraction of the 139,362 that actually were discovered.
6/4/2007
IT managers and CIOs still say their biggest fear is the dreaded insider getting his hands on critical database information.
6/4/2007
A Chicago man, if convicted, could face three years in federal prison for posting the first four episodes of this season's 24 online before they aired on Fox.
6/4/2007
McAfee's study found that AOL returned the safest results, while searching for words like "digital music" and "tech toys" runs the highest risk.
6/1/2007
A Florida-based e-mail security company is making the offer to help businesses stay up and running during hurricane season, which has just started.
6/1/2007
Secure Computing and Finjan filed competing lawsuits in a legal battle over systems used to protect computers from hostile downloads and malicious code.
6/1/2007
A DVD stolen from the San Jose Medical Group contained patients' names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and medical procedures.
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