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Is Microsoft reading your Skype communications?

The question of whether Skype – a Microsoft subsidiary since May 2011 – allows U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to access the communications …

Mobile crimeware and the global criminal marketplace

The sprawling mobile devices marketplace has spawned an industrialized mobile financial fraud plexus that today drives increasingly sophisticated criminal technical innovation …

IT security jobs: What’s in demand and how to meet it

The information security job market continues to expand. In fact, according to a report by Burning Glass Technologies, over the past five years demand for cybersecurity …

Password meters actually work

Password strength meters work, but only when users are choosing or changing passwords for “important” accounts, a group of researchers has found. They also …

Internet scams that dominated in 2012

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the 2012 Internet Crime Report – a summary of reported fraudulent activity in the past year. In 2012, the IC3 received …

Tips for validating DDoS defenses

Prolexic has issued a number of recommendations that organizations can use to validate their DDoS defenses, as well as protection services they receive from mitigation …

New 2-factor authentication for the finance industry

OneID released OneID Confirm, a customizable two-factor authentication solution. It is based on the same architecture as the OneID Suite, a set of integrated digital identity …

Belkin releases secure switch for government agencies

Belkin released its Advanced Secure KM Switch and its Advanced 8 & 16-port Secure DVI-I KVM Switches. Both product sets are designed for government agencies and financial …

Microsoft fixes 33 vulnerabilities

Today for Patch Tuesday, Microsoft and Adobe are both coming out with critical fixes for a number of widely installed and attacked programs. Microsoft has 10 bulletins …

Researcher refuses to help Saudi telco to spy on people

You would think that a Saudi Arabian telecom firm interested in monitoring its users’ mobile communications would not be asking a well-known pro-privacy researcher such …

Fraudster who hired hackers to manipulate stock prices goes to prison

The central organizer of a worldwide conspiracy to manipulate stock prices through a “botnet” network of virus-controlled computers was sentenced today to 71 …

Internet Explorer best at blocking malware

NSS Labs released the results and analysis from its web browser security comparative evaluating the protection offered by five browsers – Safari 5, Chrome 25/26, …

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