Dutch DB of biometric data still unavailable to police
Even though the EU doesn’t require it yet, the Dutch are taking 4 fingerprints of all the citizens that apply for a new passport (two of which will be put in a microchip …
New book: “JUNOS Enterprise Switching”
JUNOS Enterprise Switching is the only detailed technical book on Juniper Networks’ new Ethernet-switching EX product platform. With this book, you’ll learn all …
Security software market to grow 8% in 2009
The worldwide security software market will total $14.5 billion in 2009, an 8% increase from 2008, according to Gartner. In 2008, it grew at 19 per cent, and Gartner …
Camino 2.0 beta 4 comes with phishing and malware protection
Camino is an open source web browser for Mac OS X users. This new version is a maintenance release which contains various security and stability updates. The following major …
Microsoft sues malvertisers
Microsoft announced it has filed 5 lawsuit against (so far unknown) individuals who were operating the “Soft Solutions,” “Direct Ad,” …
No honor among thieves: hacking Facebook accounts
PandaLabs reports that they found a site where you can pay $100 to have a Facebook account hacked. PandaLabs’ Technical Director, Luis Corrons, tested the …
Photos: BruCON conference, part 2
Help Net Security editor-in-chief Mirko Zorz is attending BruCON and besides Tweeting via our main account (@helpnetsecurity), he is right now recording a series of videos, as …
Will the U.S. President have the authority to shut down the Internet?
Two important bills (773 and 778) have been introduced in the U.S. Senate while the whole nation is preoccupied with health care legislation. The Examiner reports that if …
Identity theft prevention quiz from ITAC
The Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC) has made available an identity theft prevention quiz, and has offered a 6 months identity monitoring service for free to the first …
Privacy and data protection in the European Union
Mr. Peter Hustinx was one of the high profile speakers at this week’s ENISA NIS ’09 Summer School. In January, he has been reappointed as European Data Protection …
Click fraud surge linked to “Bahama” botnet
Click Forensics announced it has identified an unusually large spike in click fraud traffic coming from a new botnet that appears to be eluding the filters of even the most …
New backbone solution to relieve strain of bandwidth-intensive applications
Alcatel-Lucent introduced a converged IP/Optical backbone network solution designed to relieve the strain on service providers’ core networks caused by the explosive …
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