Mastercard battles phishing fraud
MasterCard has shut down 1,400 phishing websites in the last eleven months alone, the company has revealed at its annual Global Risk Management Symposium.
MasterCard has shut down 1,400 phishing websites in the last eleven months alone, the company has revealed at its annual Global Risk Management Symposium.
The respected SANS Institute has published its latest list "top 20" list of critical Internet security vulnerabilities, which it says companies should patch immediately.
The number of Trojans targeting smart phones with the Symbian platform is double the number previously discovered, mobile antivirus vendor SimWorks has warned.
Microsoft has taken the unusual step of releasing an unscheduled fix for a problem that caused some PC's upgraded to Service Pack 2 (SP2) to crash in dramatic "blue screen" fashion.
Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.
A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in every Windows browser on the market -- except one.
An IBM report that tested the suitability of Linux software to secure an network its entirety has come to light months after it was originally published.
Cryptography expert Phil Zimmermann has said he believes the flaw discovered in Microsoft's Word and Excel encryption is serious and warrants immediate attention.
Two British companies have come up with a new system that will monitor company PCs for abuse, including criminal activity.
U.K. online retailers fear Internet-based fraud will jump in the coming year as chip and PIN systems are rolled in shops, a new report has found.
The volume of e-mail made up of spam has stabilized, according to figures from Symantec's Brightmail unit.
Four teenagers have been arrested for helping a global phishing gang steal millions of dollars from online bank accounts.
Apple Computer has still not properly fixed the HFS+ filesystem named fork vulnerability discovered last week, according to the company that first noticed it, NetSec.
In the very week Mozilla Firefox version 1.0 was launched, a series of potentially nasty security holes have been uncovered in older versions of the browser.
If you're the paranoid sort - and who isn't these days - the idea of network-attached video surveillance will appeal. You can keep an eye on your hardware closet, rack, IT nerve centre, what have you, in an informal way that doesn't require the sort of heavy-duty video and recording systems used in CCTV setups.