Accusations Fly Surrounding Wireless Encryption
The China Broadband Wireless IP Standards Working Group (BWIPS) has accused the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of unethical actions attempting to tear down China's wireless encryption standard WAPI.
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Date: 2006-05-30
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McAfee Talks Falcon
McAfee's next-generation consumer security service platform, code-named "Falcon" will be released this summer.
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Date: 2006-05-30
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Skype Issues Patch For URI Flaw
A flaw in the Windows-based Skype client was identified by Australian security firm Security Assessment last week that allows a hacker to transfer files from a Skype-user's computer. The flaw was not announced, however, until Skype could issue a patch.
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Date: 2006-05-30
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Online Bill Pay Growing More Popular, And Safer
According to recent surveys, more people than ever before are paying their bills online. This practice may be safer than it was in the past, as well-data also indicated that individuals who pay their bills online have a lower chance of having their identities stolen.
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Date: 2006-05-26
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Red Cross Warns Donors About Breach
A former employee of the Red Cross stole personal information obtained from a donor database to open credit card accounts, causing the Red Cross to warn more than 1 million donors in Missouri and Illinois of the problem.
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Date: 2006-05-26
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Veterans Get Advice About ID Theft
If you are a US veteran or know one affected by the recent theft of information on some 26.5 million people, it is important to be proactive to prevent identity theft. The information stolen is very valuable to shadier types looking to get a hold of your nest egg.
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Date: 2006-05-25
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Retailers Not Trusted To Protect Identity
About half those polled said they trusted retailers very little or not at all to protect their personal information from identity thieves. Banks, on the other hand, have almost the complete faith of the public, according to a recent survey looking into how active U.S. adults are at preventing identity theft.
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Date: 2006-05-25
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Vista UAC Offers Protection, Headaches
In the beta version of Windows Vista, many users have found the User Account Control (UAC) to be little more than a nuisance. A large number of them have apparently disabled the feature, which is designed to protect the computer. But there are other, and better, options than that strong measure.
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Date: 2006-05-24
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Tales of Stolen Laptops
As the topic of laptop theft came up from the recent Department of Veterans Affairs incident, Absolute Software shared a press release with me that I had not seen.
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Date: 2006-05-24
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Time for Phisher to Do Time
A 21-year-old man from Iowa named Jayson Harris was sentenced to 21 months in prison for perpetrating a phishing scam against subscribers of MSN.
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Date: 2006-05-24
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Securing Your Home Wifi Network
As consumers upgrade their computers and laptops and are discovering the convenience of wireless computing, they may also be opening themselves up to attacks from random hackers.
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Date: 2006-05-23
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Web Inventor Slams Telecoms
Tim Berners-Lee suggested a chilling effect on voting and democracy could happen should telecom companies gain the right to enforce a tiered Internet.
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Date: 2006-05-23
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OU Servers Open To Hackers For A Year
Administrators at Ohio University were surprised to find out from the FBI that not only were three servers containing very sensitive personal information hacked, but that they'd been wide open for over a year. School officials called it a failure of polices and procedures.
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Date: 2006-05-22
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Watch Out For MySpace Scammers
Users of MySpace.com, who are usually warned of sexual predation, are being warned of a new threat: phishing scams and spoofs aimed at getting personal information from users. As membership increases to upwards of 75 million members, it may be an increasingly attractive target.
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Date: 2006-05-22
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DHS RFID RFC Q&A TBD ASAP
The Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Office issued a request for comments on a highly critical report it completed on the use of RFID for human identification, ahead of a public meeting about the use of that technology.
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Date: 2006-05-22
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Iskorpitx Strikes Again
Type the word "Iskorpitx" into Google, and see what you get. Exactly the same word spit back at you, except from any number of different sites. That's because Iskorpitx is the handle of a hacker who recently committed the biggest hacking incident in web-hosting history. Those search results are the graffiti he left.
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Date: 2006-05-19
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Symantec CEO Prefers Mac
In response to a question from an audience member at the Future in Review conference, Symantec CEO John Thompson said that more people should buy Macs.
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Date: 2006-05-16
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Unsafe Searching
McAfee released a report today regarding online safety related to the use of the major search engines.
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Date: 2006-05-12
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Trust No Site
Security researcher Roger Thompson advises against placing so much trust in so-called "trusted websites".
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Date: 2006-05-10
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Symantec: Bring it On
With many reports circulating suggesting that Windows Vista will eliminate the need for separate security solutions, Symantec does not appear to be scared.
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Date: 2006-05-10
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IT Security Pros Unhappy
IT security professionals are feeling undervalued lately. According to a Dark Reader survey, 80 percent of security specialists received a raise of 10% or less last year, which represents somewhat less than the overall increase on IT spending of 15% (a figure supplied by the Robert Half International human resources research firm).
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Date: 2006-05-09
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Oracle April Patches Pushed Into May
April showers bring May flowers, but Oracle has been showered with criticism over its patch release woes; users of Oracle's various applications will have to wait until May 15th for the quarterly update that had been planned for April.
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Date: 2006-05-05
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McAfee Protects Macs
McAfee announced the availability of its anti-virus support for Intel-based Macs, McAfee VirusScan for Mactel 8.0.
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Date: 2006-05-05
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Coverity Fixes Crack in X Window
The biggest security flaw in the X Window system since 2000 was caught and fixed by Coverity as a result of a contract with the US Department of Homeland Security.
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Date: 2006-05-04
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AIM Battling Nefarious Bots
AOL has cut off access to certain IP addresses from its instant messenger network in order to slow down the possible impact of a bot spreading over AIM.
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Date: 2006-05-03
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Symantec and Visa Secure Small Businesses
Symantec and Visa International Asia Pacific have joined forces to offer VISA Business and Corporate cardholders in Asia promotional business packages for Symantec's small business Internet security solutions.
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Date: 2006-05-02
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