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RSA 2008 opens its doors
The largest and most important computer security event of the year – RSA Conference 2008 – has just begun today in sunny San Francisco, California. 17,000 computer …
New Trojan claims to offer erotic pictures of Scarlett Johansson
PandaLabs has detected a series of junk mails that promise erotic pictures of celebrities including Britney Spears, Rihanna or Scarlett Johansson as bait to spread the …
Social networkers urged to obey seven security statements
Complacent social networkers should be taking simple steps to protect their own privacy, asserts independent security testing consultancy, SecureTest. Many users rely upon …
Anonymous proxies are allowing surfers to stray
Bloxx announced the results from its first annual anonymous proxies security survey, revealing that 90% of respondents deem this kind of site to be a problem and 52% of these …
Protegrity adds support for VSAM file encryption on the mainframe
Protegrity’s Data Protection System, part of the Defiance Security Suite, has been extended to include data hashing and VSAM file encryption on z/OS. Hashing, an …
A shift to information-centric security
Orchestria has identified a significant trend missed by security providers that publicized 2008 industry predictions at the beginning of the year. Corporate security officers …
Over 100 vulnerabilities in VoIP systems uncovered
VoIPshield Laboratories has discovered over 100 security vulnerabilities in Voice over IP systems marketed by Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. A vulnerability is a design or …
Hacking Second Life
At Black Hat in Amsterdam we caught up with Michael Thumann, CSO of ERNW. In this video he discusses Second Life hacking. Beyond being an online game Second Life is a growing …
Tax season identity theft scams
Identity Force issued a Tax Season Fraud Alert warning consumers about tax-related scams that can lead to identity theft. With the April 15th income tax filing deadline only …
Sony enhances lineup of security cameras
Sony is entering the megapixel marketplace with several new additions to its lineup of IP-based security network cameras. Sony’s first megapixel cameras include the …
Top malware report for March 2008
March 2008 proved to be somewhat atypical in terms of malicious code in mail traffic. Firstly, there were no new malicious programs in the Top Twenty. Secondly, the new …
New life for CyberPatrol parental control software
Newly‐formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC today announced it has acquired the CyberPatrol parental control software product, from security vendor …