U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are trying to marshal support for changes that would make it more difficult for criminals to register domain names under false details.
Jeremy Kirk |
24 Mar |
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The Internet Engineering Task Force is close to approving a specification for a common format for reporting e-crime, a step taken to allow security experts to react faster to cybercrime.
Jeremy Kirk |
24 Mar |
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Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.
Jeremy Kirk |
19 Mar |
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Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.
Jeremy Kirk |
18 Mar |
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Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.
Jeremy Kirk |
16 Mar |
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Fraud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday.
Jeremy Kirk |
11 Mar |
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Nominet, the U.K.'s domain name registry, will begin implementing a security protocol on Monday designed to protect the DNS (Domain Name System).
Jeremy Kirk |
01 Mar |
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The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
Jeremy Kirk |
26 Feb |
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VeriSign is introducing a certification service that confirms whether a business is legitimate and that their Web site is free of malware.
Jeremy Kirk |
24 Feb |
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Google apologized on Saturday, saying it has made several changes to its new social-networking application Buzz to allay privacy concerns.
Jeremy Kirk |
16 Feb |
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A clever phishing scheme launched last week may have stolen more than €3 million (US$4.1 million) worth of carbon emission permits from companies.
Jeremy Kirk |
05 Feb |
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More than 300 Web sites are being pestered by infected computers that are part of the Pushdo botnet, according to security researchers.
Jeremy Kirk |
02 Feb |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created an on-line tool that details the wealth of information a Web browser reveals, which can pose privacy concerns when used to profile users.
Jeremy Kirk |
01 Feb |
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The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.
Jeremy Kirk |
25 Jan |
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Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China or not, analysts say.
Jeremy Kirk |
14 Jan |
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