Security News

If Ever We Step Into the Breach 15 Oct 2007 04:36 GMT
A federal regulation has a snowball effect, requiring our manager's state agency to change several procedures and contracts.

Source: Computerworld

Privacy Concerns Dog IT Efforts to Implement RFID 15 Oct 2007 04:36 GMT
Corporate efforts to use RFID technology continue to elicit privacy concerns from employees, and prompt state legislators to propose laws restricting its use.

Source: Computerworld

Retailers Take Swipe at PCI Security Rules 15 Oct 2007 04:36 GMT
The National Retail Federation has called on credit card companies to stop forcing retailers to store payment card data, a practice that IT managers say is expensive and unnecessary.

Source: Computerworld

UK government draws criticism over ID data-merge plan 12 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Privacy monitors are slamming a U.K. government proposal to combine the country General Register Office, which keeps track of births and deaths, with the agency that issues passports and official identity cards -- a combination that could potentially track Britons cradle-to-grave.

Source: Computerworld

Google, Random House move closer on book search 12 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Random House is considering joining a book-search project run by Google Inc., once considered an enemy by the paper publishing industry.

Source: Computerworld

Critical Oracle patches coming next week 12 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Oracle expects to patch 51 vulnerabilities in the quarterly Critical Patch Update collection to be released next Tuesday.

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft explains Windows URI patch strategy 12 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Microsoft's security team attempted Friday to clear up confusion over what it will and won't do to patch the Windows Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) bug, but a lot of people still aren't satisfied.

Source: Computerworld

'Storm' flaunts crazy cat to build out botnet 12 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
Meow mix? Nix on clicks: A Web page with an infectious feline laugh track is concealing a host of exploits targeting Windows PCs, including a variant of the notorious Storm Trojan.

Source: Computerworld

They shoot spammers, don't they? Um, no 11 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
The story making the rounds this week about the Mob execution of a Russian spammer has been fairly quickly outed by security researchers as a hoax... but it may mean a new spam site has been born.

Source: Computerworld

.Asia registry to crack down on phishy domains 11 Oct 2007 13:00 GMT
The new .asia top-level domain is already plagued with phishing-related problems, but the domain registrar for the TLD says a crackdown on problematic sites is imminent.