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66% of new trojans are designed to steal money
Sixty-six percent of the new Trojans that emerged in the first quarter of 2007 were designed for financial gain. “Trojans help their authors make a financial profit in …
Cryptography Research expands digital content security team
Cryptography Research, Inc. announced the addition of Peter Cossack and John-Mark Gurney to its world-class digital content security development and authoring team. Cossack …
Email scammers use BBC news story in latest lure
Sophos has reminded computer users of the danger of email scams following an attempted financial fraud which posed as a communication from the grandson of the late General …
Sophos exceeds Symante and McAfee percentage of growth
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, today announced significant growth for its final quarter, ending March 31, 2007. Sophos’s worldwide bookings increased …
Stephen Northcutt on Security Certification and the SANS Top 20
Stephen Northcutt, the CEO of the SANS Institute, provides us with an overview of SANS activities, the Internet Storm Center, the SANS Top 20 and the evolution of the IT …
Today’s Biggest IT Security Menace and 6 Ways to Fight It
What is today’s biggest IT security threat? IT itself, according to recent reports from IDC and Carnegie Mellon/DoD. To begin with, IDC research finds that enterprise …
SecureSphere extends database activity monitoring and audit with Universal Visibility Architecture
Imperva announced the SecureSphere Universal Visibility Architecture which monitors all database activity regardless of the method used to access the database. SecureSphere is …
Integralis signs reseller agreement with Sourcefire
Open source innovator and Snort creator, Sourcefire and Integralis announced a worldwide reseller agreement. Integralis customers now have access to Sourcefire’s …
Tough touch screens from 3M offer privacy to ATM users
#Mannounced that its most rugged capacitive touch product, ToughTouch II, is now available with optional privacy film to help protect financial data or transaction information …
Image spam from a fake online prostitute finder
IT security and control firm Sophos is warning internet users of a new image spam campaign offering the services of an online prostitute finder. The emails, which contain the …
Microsoft releases 7 critical security patches
Another Patch Tuesday and Microsoft comes out with a variety of patches, and this series is quite serious. The critical vulnerabilities are in: Excel, Word, Exchange, Internet …
Security labs cannot cope with volume of internet threats
Security labs cannot cope with volume of internet threats There is a dramatic increase in the quantity of malware being unleashed on the Internet,” said Luis Corrons, …