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The truth about identity theft

Over the past five years, identity theft has become a growing, nationwide concern annually affecting approximately 10 million Americans. It’s an issue that is difficult …

Using social networks inadvisable without proper protection

While the advantages of social networks are obvious after a short period of use, the risks resulting from them are generally disregarded by their users, according to …

73% share online banking password

The vast majority of online banking customers reuse their login credentials to access non-financial and much less secure websites. Trusteer found that 73 percent of bank …

XSS vulnerability in Cisco Security Tools

Core Security issued an advisory disclosing a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations using Cisco’s Secure Desktop security package and leave …

U.S. strategy for cyberwar and cyberterrorism

The Cyber Secure Institute published a whitepaper by Gen. Eugene Habiger USAF (ret.). who formerly served as Commander in Chief of United States Strategic Command. He also …

Man gets serious jail time for identity theft scheme

Martel T. Kirkland was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiracy, mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, credit card fraud, wire fraud, uttering a forged security, …

IDS legacy is institutionalized failure

The news is rife with discussions about systemic failures in the intelligence community. It is a good thing we do not judge information security on the same scale of success. …

SecretBox: Keep your secrets safe

An alternative to 1Password, App4Mac’s SecretBox lets you store all sorts of information: credit card details, SSN numbers, software licenses, e-mail account details, …

Netgear releases new gateway security appliance

Netgear unveiled a new gateway security appliance – the ProSecure UTM5, which enables small companies to protect themselves using a wide array of defenses including …

Multi-purpose fuzzer zzuf

zzuf is a transparent application input fuzzer. Its purpose is to find bugs in applications by corrupting their user-contributed data (which more than often comes from …

Rogue software details: WiniFixer

WiniFixer is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below. Known system changes: Files …

SecureCloud 2010: The future of cloud security

SecureCloud 2010 is a premier educational and networking event hosted by ENISA, the Cloud Security Alliance and ISACA, three of the leading organizations shaping the future of …

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