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New Baba Worm Pretends to Purge Porn

New mass-mailing worm tries to spread by fooling users into believing that they have pornographic content on their PCs

News • January 21st, 2005
FBI Abandons 'Carnivore' Web Surveillance Technology

Bureau opts for commercially available software, increasingly focuses on wire taps through ISPs

News • January 18th, 2005
Cellular Network Hacker Read Secret Service E-mails

California hacker broke into T-mobile network, accessed secret correspondence

News • January 13th, 2005
Microsoft Releases Two Critical Security Fixes for Windows

Fixes address flaws in Service Pack 2 and secret icon/cursor error

News • January 11th, 2005
Bionopoly and Aeros Aviation to Introduce Fingerprint Access Control Device

Companies plan to co-introduce biometrics-enabled passcode generator

News • January 10th, 2005
Phishing Attacks Increase by 29 Percent

Internet fraud attacks against online banking customers have increased by 29 percent with criminals using sophisticated viruses

News • January 5th, 2005
Changes Coming For Homeland Security IT

CIO Cooper unsure he'll stay, and recent report calls for more-centralized controls

News • January 5th, 2005
Second Hacker Who Entered Lowe's Computers Gets 26 Months

A second Michigan man was sentenced Thursday to more than two years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal credit card data from Lowe's national computer system

News • December 17th, 2004
Symantec Agrees to Purchase Veritas

$13.5 billion purchase price settled upon by leading security software vendors

News • December 16th, 2004
Report: Symantec in Talks to Acquire Veritas Software

By acquiring backup and storage provider, Symantec would move further beyond virus protection

News • December 15th, 2004
SI International to Buy Private IT Integration Company

Major government IT security contractor to purchase Bridge Technology Corporation

News • December 1st, 2004
Cell Phones Increasingly Attractive To Hackers

A look at the ways hackers are moving from attacking computers to attacking phones, the next big target

News • November 29th, 2004
Java Flaw Could Lead to Windows, Linux Attacks

Flaw in Sun Microsystems' Java plug-in on variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Windows and Linux PCs

News • November 25th, 2004
Hackers Use Popular Web Sites, Ads to Infect PCs

Hackers co-opted several popular websites, using them to install virus that can steal passwords, bank accounts and other personal information

News • November 25th, 2004
Employees Unaware of Security Risks Associated with Surfing the Internet on the Job, NetApp says

Network security is high priority for all businesses, yet most employees unaware of security hazards of Web surfing, says recent survey

News • November 22nd, 2004

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