OTTAWA, Ontario - The IT industry must help citizens reclaim their digital identities. That's the view of a top Canadian civil servant dealing with the issue, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Anne Cavoukian. Cavoukian made reference in a recent paper to how people are losing control of their personal information that is globally circulating in
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has discovered the use of Google Docs by spammers that circumvent spam filters in order to deliver their unsolicited messages. Google Docs is Google's online rival to Microsoft's Word text processing application. By hosting their message on legitimate sites such as Google Docs, spammers make it harder for anti-spam technology
DETROIT - InfraGard has made decisions at the national level to both make it easier for people to join and to guarantee the security of members who join to be a part of securely sharing sensitive information. Within the next few months, FBI will be requiring the rollout of a New Systems Upgrade, which will
SUNNYVALE, Ca. - E-mail security and data leak prevention vendor Proofpoint has released a version of its on-demand service for small- and medium-sized businesses. Proofpoint on Demand -- Standard Edition uses the same anti-spam and anti-virus applications found in the Enterprise Edition that was launched last summer, but the configuration has been simplified to take
SAN JOSE, Ca. - Spyware, viruses and worms continue to plague most organizations, but security challenges tied to the use of handheld devices and mobile and remote computing are growing at a rapid pace, new research commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) reveals. The CompTIA survey of more than 2,000 individuals found that
BILBAO, Span - PandaLabs, the malware detection and analysis laboratory at Panda Security, has discovered several free phishing kits on the Internet which allow cyber-crooks to send out fraudulent emails. These tools allow cyber-crooks to spoof bank pages and emails, online pay platforms, Gmail and Yahoo!Mail mail accounts, online games (Xbox password theft) and blogs
MOUNTAIN VIEW - McAfee wants to make web searching a safe experience for users, which is why the company has announced two new solutions that it says will do just that. To be launched later this quarter, the first product is called McAfee Secure Search Service that leverages McAfee's SiteAdvisor to eliminate risky sites from
SAN JOSE - Finjan Inc., makers of secure web gateway products, has discovered a server controlled by hackers that contained more than 1.4 gigabytes of business and personal data stolen from infected PCs. Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center detected a Crimeserver, which was used as a command and control for the Crimeware that was executed
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. - Web 2.0 is all the rage, making users more productive by offering new programming methods and applications used on an Internet platform. We now have all sorts of new Web 2.0 applications available on the Internet from Google Apps to blogs to instant messaging. These offer us tremendous value when it
BOULDER, Co. - According to Webroot's State of Internet Security: Protecting Business Email report, there will be more than 42,000 spam e-mails for every single business e-mail account, or about 116 per day and that these threats are severely impacting businesses around the world during 2008. "We don't expect to contain [spam] as long as