More laws, collaboration required for online safety   05 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Experts at a security conference in Seattle said businesses, law enforcement and policy makers must work together to improve online safety and better prevent cybercrime.

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft slates seven fixes for next week   05 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Microsoft on Tuesday plans to release seven security updates, three of them "critical," for several Windows components, including Bluetooth, DirectX and Internet Explorer.

Source: Computerworld

VeriChip going away?   04 Jun 2008 18:14 GMT
Just as it was launching its consumer campaign VeriChip seems to be going away. The company launched its ad campaign under the name HealthLink in April, but just three weeks later sold its Canadian unit, Xmark, to Stanley Works for $45 million and put itself on the...
Source: ZDNet

Quirky Plurk: another microblogging time sink   04 Jun 2008 15:34 GMT
The other evening I started to receive unsolicited aka spam requests to hook up with people on Plurk. Spam might be too strong a word since the requests were coming from people with whom I'm already connected through other services. I've had my...
Source: ZDNet

Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records   04 Jun 2008 14:20 GMT
In yet another unbelievable story of data irresponsibility, the Bank of New York BNY Mellon lost two sets of unencrypted backup tapes containing private data belonging to 4.5 million individuals. Third-party vendors misplaced the tapes were misplaced during transport to off-site locations. According to the bank,...
Source: ZDNet

XP SP3 omits critical security update   04 Jun 2008 13:00 GMT
Windows XP Service Pack 3 omits a critical security update first issued by Microsoft in November 2006.

Source: Computerworld

Privacy flaw exposes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan's private MySpace photos   04 Jun 2008 12:54 GMT
The recently introduced data availability initiative at MySpace allowing everyone to share their profile data with other community and social networking sites across the Web, has just suffered its first major privacy flaw exposing the private photos of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, prompting Yahoo and MySpace to disable the...
Source: ZDNet

Extreme IT: Battling dust, heat and bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq   04 Jun 2008 04:13 GMT
Think your job's tough? IT pros in the U.S. military handle extreme temperatures, 'moon dust' and mortar attacks to keep communications -- including multiple networks -- up and running.

Source: Computerworld

Image gallery: Extreme IT in Afghanistan and Iraq   04 Jun 2008 04:13 GMT
IT pros in the U.S. military handle extreme temperatures, 'moon dust' and mortar attacks to keep communications up and running.

Source: Computerworld

Online brand-jacking increasing   03 Jun 2008 21:14 GMT
With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...
Source: ZDNet