Security News

Visa's security best practices to become payment industry standard 08 Nov 2007 11:58 GMT
Visa, which has been leading the charge to pressure third-party software vendors to comply with the Payment Card Industry data security initiative, got serious support on Wednesday from the PCI Security Standards Council.

Source: Computerworld

Update: Buggy game DRM puts Windows users at risk 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
Microsoft is looking into a flaw in anti-piracy software bundled with Windows and designed to protect game publishers. It could also be used for attacks against users with the flawed file on their computers.

Source: Computerworld

Survey finds companies clueless about unsecured data costs 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
A survey by AIIM-The ECM Association indicates that over two-fifths of the companies surveyed said they had no idea whether any of their corporate information on their networks had been inappropriately accessed, updated or deleted within the past two years. How blissful is ignorance?

Source: Computerworld

Enforcing IT Change Management Policy 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
(Source: Tripwire) Discover how high-performing IT organizations are able to create a culture that supports and uses IT change management to their advantage, facilitating enterprise business goals.

Source: Computerworld

Beyond Disaster Recovery: Using Configuration Audit and Control to Develop an Effective BCP 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
(Source: Tripwire) Find out how change and configuration audit and control solutions can provide the detailed change audit trail that helps organizations maintain the known states so vital to recovering system data after a sudden outage.

Source: Computerworld

Russian hacker gang goes dark to relocate; may be moving to China 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
The notorious hacker and malware hosting organization, the Russian Business Network, has gone off the air and may be looking to relocate from St. Petersberg to another location, security researchers said.

Source: Computerworld

Opinion: What to ask when considering encrpytion 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
While it's tempting to say all data needs to be encrypted, this has a number of consequences, including cost, and potentially, a significant performance impact depending on the specific encryption approach. Unfortunately, this is somewhat of a conundrum because answering "no" can present a daunting data classification challenge to identify and segregate the data that must be secured. Generally speaking, however, any effort spent to identify and reduce the volume of data requiring encryption can prove beneficial.

Source: Computerworld

Former DuPont worker gets 18-month sentence for insider data thefts 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
Gary Min, a former research scientist at DuPont, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for downloading confidential documents valued at almost $400 million while he worked at the company.

Source: Computerworld

Q&A: Revolution Money CEO aims to shake up payment card industry 07 Nov 2007 14:00 GMT
Jason Hogg, CEO of Revolution Money, discusses the RevolutionCard, transactions in the age of the social network, and how merchants can build customers' loyalty even if they don't have their names on file.

Source: Computerworld

YouTube sued by Indian music label for alleged infringement 07 Nov 2007 10:21 GMT
Google and its YouTube subsidiary have been instructed by a Delhi court to remove content that an Indian music label claimed infringes on copyrights it holds.