Security News

Microsoft slates seven patches next week 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
Microsoft plans to roll out seven patches next week, including five aimed at fixing vulnerabilities in Windows Vista.

Source: Computerworld

Security policies? Workers ignore them, survey says 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
A surprising number of IT professionals often ignore security policies or break them because they don't even know about them, according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute.

Source: Computerworld

Researchers hack and crack Microsoft wireless keyboards 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
Not only are some wireless keyboards from Microsoft easy to crack because of weak encryption, but it may also be possible to send malicious keystrokes back to the computer, according to researchers at Dreamlab Technologies AG.

Source: Computerworld

Mind the GAPP: Accountants bring GAAP-like principles to the privacy sphere 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
Columnist Jay Cline sees companies gearing up for audits against the new Generally Accepted Privacy Principles in what could be the biggest drill since Sarbanes-Oxley.

Source: Computerworld

Duke Law School applicants warned of possible ID theft 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
Duke Law School is warning about 1,400 applicants and two students that confidential information about them may have been breached when hackers broke into the school's Web site.

Source: Computerworld

Passport Canada security breach raises ID theft concerns 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
A trivial change to URLs on the Passport Canada site allowed curious folk to see other applicants' personal information. Now the office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is assessing the breach -- and the damage to public confidence.

Source: Computerworld

UK data breach: stripping data 'would not have been costly' 06 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
Testimony this week to British officials investigating the breach that "misplaced" data on 25 million people revealed that it would have cost about $102,000 to pare away the confidential data from the missing files -- and that this breach is by no means HMRC's first.

Source: Computerworld

A call for rational discourse on identity theft 06 Dec 2007 12:00 GMT
ID Analytics' Thomas Oscherwitz writes that while ID theft losses are dropping, the debate has become ever more shrill. The Federal Trade Commission last week announced the long-awaited follow-up to its 2003 Identity Theft Survey Report. The 100-page report boils down to one extraordinary finding: identity theft occurs...
Source: ZDNet

7 things your IT department doesn't want you to know 05 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
While IT staffers have good reasons for restricting your use of systems for reasons of security, you can safely transmit files of many sizes, chat on your favorite IM client, and use unapproved but legal and harmless software.

Source: Computerworld

Researcher: Ukrainian botnet sent Ron Paul spam 05 Dec 2007 14:00 GMT
The mystery surrounding a spam deluge blamed on presidential candidate Ron Paul deepened this week with research indicating that the attack originated with an obscure but highly efficient Ukrainian operation.