April Updates
Week 3
04. 17. 2009
Will the iPhone ever come to Verizon? - Rumors have circulated since Apple's iPhone was first launched that Verizon Wireless might get its own version of the popular device. But will the elusive iPhone ever come to Verizon's network ...
04. 17. 2009
Teen Twitter worm writter gets job and spreads new worm - The teenager who takes credit for the worms
that hit Twitter earlier this week has been hired by a Web application development firm and on Friday released a fifth worm ...
04. 16. 2009
The hype factor at the RSA conference - It's nearly time for that annual spring ritual: the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. ESG data tells me that, despite the recession ...
04. 16. 2009
Report: Payment card data was top target in 2008 - More records were breached in 2008 than in the previous four years combined as a result of a few large breaches involving payment cards ...
04. 15. 2009
Microsoft to offer hosted security for Exchange - Microsoft will begin offering its first hosted security service under the Forefront brand on Thursday, dubbed Forefront Online Security for Exchange and designed to help keep malware and spam out of e-mail in-boxes ...
04. 15. 2009
PIN Crackers Nab Holy Grail of Bank Card Security - Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs ...
04. 14. 2009
Microsoft fills Excel, Windows, Word holes - Microsoft on Tuesday closed security holes in Excel, Windows, and Word that had been exploited in the wild as well as other holes for which exploit code or details exist ...
04. 14. 2009
Why a national data breach notification law makes sense - As we await the 60-day federal cybersecurity review from Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils ...
04. 13. 2009
Symantec: Security holes, malware spike in 2008 - If you worry that the Internet is a scary place full of digital pickpockets and online identity thieves, your fears will be bolstered by the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report released Tuesday ...
04. 13. 2009
Twitter cleans up after weekend worm attack - Twitter security engineers were cleaning up on Monday following a series of worm attacks over the weekend, including at least two credited to a bored 17-year-old ...
04. 13. 2009
How secure is the U.S. communications network? - A simple snip of a few fiber-optic communications cables left thousands of people in Silicon Valley and throughout parts of the San Francisco Bay Area without ...