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Nigerian email scammers now using puppies

Sophos has reminded computer users of the danger of email scams following an attempted financial fraud which posed as a communication from a Christian couple offering their …

Good S/MIME – Good Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Motorola recently introduced Good Mobile Messaging Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (Good S/MIME). Designed specifically to meet federal government security policy …

SEC’s Anti-Spam Initiative causes reduction in financial spam

The Securities and Exchange Commission continued its assault on stock market e-mail spam by suspending trading in the securities of three companies that haven’t provided …

New innovative ID verification system using grids

GrIDsure Limited has announced its revolutionary new approach to authentication – designed to tackle many of the problems currently being suffered by consumers buying …

Users demand more fraud protection from banks and card companies

Results of a new survey carried out by GrIDsure show banks and card companies could do more to protect customers from fraud, and might benefit from taking into account how …

Secure file transfer solution for IBM mainframes

SSH Communications Security announced the general availability of SSH Tectia Server 5.5 for IBM z/OS which allows enterprises to secure file transfers and other data in …

Did you get malware from a long lost school friend?

Sophos is warning of a new attempt to infect PCs with malware by someone posing as a long lost school friend. According to Sophos, internet hackers – taking advantage of …

Hijacking RSS feeds with Feedburner plugin for WordPress

In one of his latest blog posts, David Kierznowski announced a Feedsmith Feedburner vulnerability: Feedsmith Feedburner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to a CSRF attack …

Mac Security Freeware: Password Manager, Screen Locker and MD5 Checksum Checker

In a series of articles on Mac security freeware I will be covering a number of newly released security tools for Mac OS X. This time I am taking a look at KeyMaster 1.0.1 …

Security requirements for a Web 2.0 world

Through research, analysis, Secure Computing has identified the key requirements for addressing enterprise Web security. The following capabilities are absolutely essential …

Websense completes acquisition of SurfControl

Websense closed its acquisition of SurfControl. The final purchase price is approximately ?204 million, including deferred compensation and stock option expense. The …

Database with 1,000,000 malware signatures

Anchiva Systems’ Rapid RxLabs has achieved the milestone of growing its threat protection database to 1,000,000 signatures to detect and prevent malware from entering …

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