Phishers Nearly Pull Off $10M Scam of Grocer   29 Oct 2007 05:23 GMT
Court papers revealed that Phishers conned grocer Supervalu to deposit more than $10 million into two fraudulent bank accounts before it recognized the ruse.

Source: Computerworld

Get Serious About Info Integrity   29 Oct 2007 05:23 GMT
Information integrity is probably your CFO's top concern, according to a recent survey. Is it yours? Mark Hall asks.

Source: Computerworld

Security Issues Are Everywhere   29 Oct 2007 05:23 GMT
A security manager's job is never done, but C.J. Kelly says it would be a little easier if everyone in her state agency was trained to recognize trouble.

Source: Computerworld

Who You Gonna Call?   29 Oct 2007 05:23 GMT
With more than 30 different state notification requirements on the books in case of a data breach, many companies are crossing their fingers when they should be devising a plan.

Source: Computerworld

Report: U.S. tops list of spam-offending countries   26 Oct 2007 13:12 GMT
U.S. sends about 28 percent of the world's spam--more than five times as much as second-place South Korea, says security firm. The U.S. remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which on Friday released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries--dubbed the "Dirty...
Source: ZDNet

TJX violated nine of 12 PCI controls at time of breach, court filings say   26 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
TJX Companies was not complying with nine of the 12 security controls mandated by the payment card industry data security standards when cardholder data was breached, according to court filings.

Source: Computerworld

'We're not scared' of Storm, say researchers   26 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Researchers who have been probing the Storm Trojan in an effort to fight it said they aren't afraid of the malware, despite comments to the contrary this week from Josh Corman of IBM Corp.'s Internet Security Systems Inc.

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft now takes blame for WSUS update error   26 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Microsoft did a turn-about late yesterday, admitting that enterprise customers' PCs were indeed being force-fed the Windows XP desktop search tool. Users were not amused, nor were they in a forgiving mood.

Source: Computerworld

Scammers sentenced for Microsoft software scheme   26 Oct 2007 11:25 GMT
A husband-and-wife team were sentenced to five years in prison for buying Microsoft software at academic discounts and illegally reselling it.

Source: Computerworld

Nothing like being a tech slave   26 Oct 2007 11:00 GMT
Fed up groveling before your PC? You should be. Imagine an alternate universe where your TV forced you through the same daily humiliations. What if turning on a television were as difficult as working with your PC? That would be cyberhell. Computer scientist-philosopher Michael Dertouzos...
Source: ZDNet