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Coming to Your Pocket: A Terrorist Beacon?

What do you suppose our enemies would pay for a device capable of identifying all the Americans walking down the street in a foreign...

Spyware Lawsuit Alleges Computer Hijacking

A recently filed class-action lawsuit against alleged spyware king DirectRevenue of New York claims that the company has deceptively downloaded harmful and offensive spyware...

Does Vendors Fix Philosophies Match Yours?

Finally the long winter is over, and our thoughts turn to warm-weather pursuits. Some people will plan beach vacations, while others will turn to...

Firefox JavaScript Engine Flaw Flagged

A moderately critical security flaw in the Mozilla Foundations Firefox Web browser could put users at risk of information disclosure attacks, according to an...

IT Admins Must Think Like Hackers

ORLANDO, Fla.—Veteran IBM security architect Jeff Crume on Monday urged IT administrators to start thinking like malicious hackers to fully understand the ways in...

ICANN Digs into Panix.com Domain Theft—but Not Too Deep

In my continuing series on domain name theft I have observed the problem shift as the technology and standards have shifted. The problem used...

Cyber-Terrorism Analyst Warns Against Complacency

ORLANDO, Florida—Cyber-security and counterterrorism analyst Roger Cressey on Monday pleaded with IT executives not to underestimate the threat of "national cyber-event" targeting critical infrastructure...

AppSecInc Tackles SarbOx, FISMA Compliance

AppSecInc will roll out canned best policies for its database-auditing and intrusion detection software on Monday at InfoSec World. The latest additions to AppSecIncs...

The Chaotic World of Defining Spyware

Earlier this week, when anti-spyware vendor eTrust PestPatrol temporarily removed detections for eight adware applications marketed by Claria, the move caused many a raised...

CA Fortifies ID Management Suite

Computer Associates International Inc. is addressing a serious security problem that is difficult to solve without automated tools with the acquisition this week of...