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Data Privacy Caught in Crossfire

Whose data is it anyhow? The personal technology industry has been roiling of late with the news that Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to...

E-Mail Worm Could Wreak Havoc

A high-powered group of security volunteers is raising an "urgent alert" for a potentially destructive e-mail worm crawling through in-boxes, warning that the worms...

Identity Theft Ranks High in FTC Complaints

Among the many ways Americans see themselves getting swindled these days, identity theft ranks first.Of nearly 700,000 grievances lodged with the Federal Trade Commission...

IBM Predicts 2006 Attack, Threat Trends

IBM recorded more than 1 billion suspicious computer security events last year, despite a leveling off in the amount of spam e-mail and a...

Compuware Tool Tightens .Net Application Security

SAN FRANCISCO—Compuware released Jan. 30 a new version of its security analysis tool, DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.0, which will support Visual Studio 2005. The company also...

3Com-Huawei Deal Yields New IPS Appliance

3Com unveiled a new IPS (intrusion prevention system) appliance for large enterprises and service providers on Jan. 30 called TippingPoint M60. The new appliance is...

iAnywhere Announces Embeddable Software for Readers

Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere announced Jan. 30 at the Global RFID ROI Summit in London new software to help RFID hardware vendors develop "smart"...

AppRadar 3.0 Squeals on Database Attacks as Theyre Spawned

Application Security is updating AppRadar, its real-time intrusion detection and security auditing tool, so that it regularly updates with security checks for freshly spawned...

Consumers Resist Retail Biometrics

As assistant director of information systems for the $700 million Piggly Wiggly grocery chain, Rachel Bolt has been one of the most vocal proponents...

Move to Intel a Security Non-Issue for Apple

I guess Black Hat just gets hackers excited and optimistic for more bad news. This leads them to believe, for example, that Apples move...