Instant Messaging Becomes Instant Virusing
"Lol, ha, check this out." This is the last message you saw on your instant messenger from your girlfriend. You click on it. Now you've got an ITD. What's an ITD you ask? It's an Internet Transmitted Disease. Don't feel bad though. Lots of people get them. With a little help, you can get it cured too.
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Date: 2005-09-30
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FTC Wants Online Consumers To Be OnGuard
The Federal Trade Commission has partnered with Microsoft, eBay, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), and three other government entities to launch a new multimedia, interactive consumer education program to help the public improve their online security practices.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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Cyber Crime Continues To Proliferate
The cyber crime world is growing. No if, ands or buts about it. One of the biggest problems have been weaknesses in security with banks and other institutions that handle financial information. While California has a disclosure law regarding this type of theft, no one else, including the federal government, has anything like this in place.
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Date: 2005-09-23
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Iconix Launches Email Security Software
Yesterday, Iconix, Inc., released icon-based visual email identification software that tags incoming emails with company logos to confirm the email's authenticity in an effort to combat phishing scams and spam.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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Symantec’s 6 Month Online Security Report Card
Internet security powerhouse Symantec released their "Symantec Internet Security Threat Report" today covering the first 6 months of 2005. The big story in this report is that many resources and tools traditionally thought of as secure and relatively problem free are just as open for attack as traditional Microsoft-based tools.
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Date: 2005-09-19
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Symantec’s Security Report Card Part 2
Symantec just published their biannual statement on the affairs of security on the Internet and it covers a lot of ground. A lot of facts were published and many of them don't bode well for the future of Internet security.
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Date: 2005-09-19
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Overwhelming IE: Too Many Vulnerabilities
Internet security firm eEye Digital Security said they've found yet another flaw in the Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). This is just one of several eEye's found in recent months and one in a long list found by them and other groups.
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Date: 2005-09-16
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Bugging Out Firefox
Last week, Mozilla and Netscape became aware of a vulnerability in their browsers regarding IDNs. This marks multiple problems with IDNs the browsers have had and this seems to have been a real problem for the organizations.
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Date: 2005-09-15
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September Patch Tuesday On Hold
Microsoft announced their monthly patch release for September has been delayed because of quality concerns. The release, slated for Tuesday, September 13, 2005 contained a high priority security release and they've not announced a new date.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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The Skinny On Patch Tuesday
Microsoft put out their monthly note on what their monthly security patch will cover. This month's update includes a major security update so it's crucial to get that done ASAP. During the month of August, many who failed to update got a painful lesson on what worms can do to an unsuspecting PC.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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