Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: security

Symantec is working on Dark Vision, an application for visualizing and tracking the underground economy that trades in personal data, such as credit card and social security numbers. "We are looking into their clubhouse," said Mark Bregman, CTO of Symantec. "It's the 'safe spot' where they exchange illegally gotten information."The...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5799

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Facebook Platform creates channel for malicious third-party applications. Users also face identity theft, VeriSign says.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6199559.html

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: security

A new report in InformationWeek by Andy Dornan calls SOA security "one treacherous journey."Vendors and committees have thrown a bewildering plethora of immature or incompatible security specs and solutions at usTreacherous indeed. SOA increasingly addresses services on both sides of the firewall, and therefore opens up the most critical business...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=925

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: security

To accommodate more speakers, more controversy, the security conference will occupy more space at Caesar's Palace.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6199338.html

Date: 07/27/07     Keywords: web

Identity thieves are expanding their phishing repertoire from banks and credit card companies to federal agencies, reports the Associated PressMasquerading as the Federal Trade Commission, the IRS and the Justice Department, criminals send out thousands of emails in order to trick customers into giving out personal financial information. These websites...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3333

Date: 07/27/07     Keywords: security

Action by a divided U.S. Senate on Thursday raises new questions about the fate of a contentious plan to outfit Americans with new digital identification cards by 2013.By a50-44 vote mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside a Republican-backed amendment to a homeland security spending bill that would...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-11153_22-6199220.html

Date: 07/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

Reports lower profit as stock-based compensation costs, restructuring costs and acquisition-related adjustments reduced earnings.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6198859.html

Date: 07/24/07     Keywords: security

House of Representatives panel chairman says peer-to-peer networks pose a "national security threat," new laws needed.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6198585.html

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

The iPhone may be vulnerable to hackers due to a flaw that allows them to take control of the device.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6198143.html

Date: 07/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Deadline for federal agencies' policies for dealing with data breaches approaches and it's not yet clear whether everyone will be done in time.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197474.html

Date: 07/18/07     Keywords: spyware

The FBI used a novel type of remotely installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197405.html

Date: 07/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Phony job listings on ads and in e-mail are sent in limited numbers to avoid detection; targeted employees are tricked into responding.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197157.html

Date: 07/17/07     Keywords: software, spyware

Will companies that make antispyware software detect key loggers implanted by federal agents? We survey 13 companies and include their answers verbatim.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6196990.html

Date: 07/17/07     Keywords: security

A recent court case dealing with key loggers installed by the feds invites the question: will security companies put the interests of their customers first?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6197020.html

Date: 07/13/07     Keywords: java, security

Vulnerabilities in the Sun Java Runtime Environment are described by one security expert as being "as bad as it gets."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6196493.html

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Interpol's secretary general tells CNET News.com that his agency should be a central hub for tracking international travelers and compiling fingerprints from criminal suspects.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6196190.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

"How can laptops holding details of customer accounts be used away from the office without strong encryption?" Richard Thomas scolds.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6196022.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

If you thought e-mail threats were a pain, that's nothing. Trend Micro's Raimund Genes talks about the latest Net-borne danger to the computing world.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6195985.html

Date: 07/10/07     Keywords: no keywords

Aim is to develop government-wide architecture to protect and share sensitive government information.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6195692.html

Date: 07/09/07     Keywords: security

The Internet giant gobbles up Postini, which supplies on-demand communications security and compliance products to more than 35,000 businesses.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6195408.html