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October 2008 malware and spam geographical and vertical trends
October 2008 MessageLabs Intelligence Report highlights the following trends: Geographical Trends: In October, spam levels in Hong Kong fell by 1.4 percent but the country …
New Sprint Secure Web Protection managed service
Sprint announced the availability of Sprint Secure Web Protection, managed service which will include both a network and premise-based solution for customers to choose from; …
TeamViewer Portable for secure remote access from public workstations
TeamViewer Portable is an USB option for professionals accessing confidential information from public computers. The product provides users with secure remote access to a …
Reconsidering physical key secrecy: teleduplication via optical decoding
Researchers from the University of San Diego (Benjamin Laxton, Kai Wang and Stefan Savage) developed Sneakey, a system that correctly decoded keys from an image that was taken …
Suite360 for automated security and compliance auditing
New nCircle Suite360 delivers a fully integrated, agentless product line for auditing the entire information technology stack across a global network. Comprised of agentless …
Increase in spam productivity due to world financial crisis
The worldwide financial crisis sparked an increase in spam production following the initial mid-September collapse of Lehman Brothers Bank, Bank of America and AIG, according …
Anti-phishing best practices recommendations for domain registrars
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), in consultation with the ICANN Registrar Constituency and several domain name registrars, has published a “best practices” …
List of Halloween themed malware
Read on for the PandaLabs list of malicious malware programs that focus on Halloween: Tixcet.A: Disguised as a Microsoft Word file, this worm will try to turn Halloween into a …
New book: “Web Security Testing Cookbook”
Web Security Testing Cookbook is a hands-on, recipe-style reference for web software developers and testers. The recipes show how to check for the most common web security …
Top brass of hackers and IT security meet in Austria for DeepSec conference
DeepSec takes place in Vienna for the second time now and is set on creating a conference for hackers, companies, IT security staff and scientists as a  forum to exchange …
ID Analytics releases online fraud prevention capabilities
ID Analytics released an enhanced version of ID Score, an identity fraud risk score. This latest version introduces a breakthrough in fraud protection for transactions …
Card reader with optical interface facilitates user acceptance
VASCO Data Security International announces Digipass 835, a card reader of which the user-acceptance is guaranteed through the new optical interface which facilitates data …
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