Security

Sun, March 25, 2007 - Florida law enforcement officials have arrested six individuals suspected of a fraud scheme built around the misuse of credit card data stolen from retailer TJX Companies. Officials said they have taken six of 10 suspects into custody for allegedly using the TJX customer data to purchase large quantities of gift cards from discount chains Wal-Mart and Sams Club.

Sat, March 24, 2007 - Identity thieves are offering a person's credit-card number, date of birth and other sensitive information for as little as US$14 over the Internet, said a new report on online threats.

Tue, March 20, 2007 - IBM and Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a new one-stop service designed to help businesses and government agencies respond to and recover from disasters.

Thu, March 15, 2007 - Stanford University is working with the National Science Foundation to build a nationwide programmable platform for research in network architectures, and to develop new Internet architectures.

Wed, March 14, 2007 - Microsoft has filed two new lawsuits against companies it accuses of registering domain names similar to its trademarks. It has also settled three similar suits with other companies, it said Wednesday.It alleges that the companies intentionally registered domain names with variations of its trademarks, a practice known as cybersquatting, or misspellings of those names, known as typosquatting. Often, domains registered ...

Wed, March 14, 2007 - In partnership with Q1 Labs, will study info and network security.

Tue, March 13, 2007 - It’s corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are primarily to blame, says an assistant professor at the University of Washington.

Fri, March 09, 2007 - Microsoft is not planning to release any security updates on Tuesday, one of only a handful of times the company won’t have security patches available since its monthly security updates began in 2003, Microsoft said Thursday.Microsoft is working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007’s Publisher 2007 and Windows Vista OS, but they are not ready ...

Wed, March 07, 2007 - What do cats and Internet security have in common? If you had attended Microsoft’s TechFest 2007 on Tuesday in Redmond, Wash., you would know.At the event, which gave Microsoft Research a chance to demonstrate technologies that may one day turn up in Microsoft or third-party products, the research group out of Redmond showed off Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access ...

Fri, March 02, 2007 - Researchers in the United States say they’ve successfully shown how attackers could compromise a network designed to make it harder to trace Internet surfers and the websites they are viewing.The researchers, from the University of Colorado in Boulder, focused their efforts on The Onion Router (Tor) network. Tor software enables the creation of networks of servers that can send ...