SAN JOSE, Ca. - Phishing attacks rose 52 percent in July while spam as a percentage of all e-mail stayed about the same compared with the previous month, according to the latest reports from Symantec that tracked spam and phishing activity for the month. With some fluctuations, spam averaged around 89 percent of all e-mail
SAN FRANCISCO - Most people may think they're smart enough not to answer an obvious spam message. But is that really the case? Almost one third of consumers questioned admitted answering e-mails they suspected were spam, says a survey released Wednesday by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. Among those who responded to spam, 17 percent
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has been hacked, sort of. Actually, the Google Apps account used by Twitter employees was hacked, which led to the deeper compromise of the Twitter corporate network and the unauthorized release of data regarding the company's growth plans and credit card numbers of several employees. It's believed that a hacker named
SAN FRANCISCO - CEOs and their senior executives don't see eye to eye on key security issues, according to a new survey. Many CEOs don't consider their own companies vulnerable to security attacks and are confident in their ability to combat those attacks, says a survey released Wednesday. However, those findings contrast with the opinions
SAN FRANCSICO - The Symbian Foundation has acknowledged that its process for keeping malicious applications off Symbian OS-based phones needs improvement, after a Trojan horse program passed a security test. The botnet-building Trojan, which calls itself "Sexy Space," passed through the group's digital-signing process, Symbian's chief security technologist Craig Heath said Thursday. Heath said the
ROCKVILLE, Md. - The North American managed security services market experienced 12 percent growth in 2008, with revenue reaching $1.06 billion during the year. According to Frost & Sullivan, the market segment will continue to grow to $2.4 billion in 2015. Five key factors are driving the market to grow in a fairly solid way,
SAN FRANCISCO - The guidelines will likely be seen as a welcome relief to some who have complained that the main body of the PCI security standard is too ambiguous. Security service providers and enterprises that deal with sensitive credit card information received valuable wireless security guidance last week with the publication of a new
YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University's Center For Regional and National Security has been reappointed as a Center of Academic Excellence through 2014. The news came from CeRNS' Skip Lawver, Associate Professor, College of Technology. Who also said the NSA certified several CeRNS programs as meeting the 4011 and 4012 training standards for information security professionals
SAN FRANCSICO, Ca. - Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.0.12, an update to the open-source browser that fixes five critical security vulnerabilities and fixes a handful of other bugs. "We strongly recommend that all Firefox 3.0.x users upgrade to this latest release," Mozilla said on its developer blog. "If you already have Firefox 3, you
WASHINGTON DC - America's cyber czar, despite the impressive title, may not be such a coveted job after all. As early as this week, President Obama is expected to appoint a national cybersecurity adviser, who will report to the oval office and run the White House's efforts to defend the government from hackers and cyberspies.