SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter presents a relatively new frontier for spammers, malware creators, and all around bad guys, which in turn has created the opportunity for security researchers and vendors alike to try to figure out, and put a stop to, their efforts. One company that's trying to get a handle on the size of
SAN FRANCSICO - A new Trojan dubbed "OddJob" is stealing people's money by taking over their online banking sessions after they think they've logged off. The Trojan, which targets Windows-based computers, is being used by criminals in Eastern Europe to steal money from accounts in the United States, Poland, and Denmark, Amit Klein, chief technology
SAN FRANCISCO - In a digital heist reminiscent of a John le Carre novel, more than $9 million worth of greenhouse-gas emissions permits were stolen from the Czech Republic electricity and carbon trading registry earlier this month and transferred to accounts in other countries, at the same time as the Prague-based registry office was evacuated
PLYMOUTH ? Virtual Privacy versus Actual Security is the topic of the Feb. 17 meeting of the Motor City ISSA. Jim Doherty - Chief Marketing Officer, Cipher Optics, will talk about real world obstacles and expectations of integrating end user devices into the corporate environment, while still maintaining a semblance of security. He?ll highlight how
SOUTHFIELD - Joe LaFeir has been promoted to senior vice president and chief information officer of the Polk business unit at R. L. Polk & Co., the company announced Thursday. In this role, LaFeir will be the strategic leader responsible for directing Polk?s information services and technology functions. He will determine Polk?s long-term information technology
SAN FRANCISCO - India appears unlikely to implement its threatened ban on BlackBerry services, but the government is still demanding access to the data on Research In Motion's secure enterprise network--something RIM keeps insisting it cannot provide. RIM had been ordered to give the Indian government a permanent solution on access to its BlackBerry Enterprise
REDMOND - Microsoft will address 22 vulnerabilities as part of Patch Tuesday, three of which are critical. Three of the 12 bulletin items released by Microsoft earlier last week are classified as critical, and affect Microsoft's Windows operating system, with one affecting Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser as well, CNET News.Com reported. The rest are classified
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Mozilla, acting on a U.S. Federal Trade Commission proposal, has offered a detailed mechanism by which Firefox and other Web browsers could prevent Web pages from tracking people's online behavior for advertising purposes. With Mozilla's do-not-track technology, network data packets from the browser would signal to a Web site that a person
SAN FRANCISCO - It's probably not surprising, but is nonetheless alarming. Sophos's latest 'Social Security' survey, which polls computer users on their experiences of social networking security threats, has found a dramatic increase in malware, phishing and spam transmitted via social networks. 40 percent of social networking users polled said they have been sent malware
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - McAfee has announced the McAfee Security Certification Program, a new two-track program. The tracks are the McAfee Certified Product Specialist track, which will cover the broad range of McAfee product solutions, although the initial release is for the ePolicy Orchestrator program. The second is the McAfee Certified Assessment Specialist track, which