By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor (UK) 9 Mar, 2010
Security questions that allow web users to access their online accounts if they forget their passwords, can easily be answered by hackers, says researchers at the University of Cambridge. read more »
Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference Thursday. read more »
Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 12 Feb, 2010
Hundreds of millions of payment cards throughout Europe have a flaw that could allow criminals with a stolen card to enter any random PIN to complete a transaction, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge. read more »
Microsoft has stopped distributing a Windows patch thought to cause a Blue Screen of Death on XP machines, and said it is investigating the problem. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 12 Feb, 2010
Just weeks after patching a critical flaw, Adobe Systems is rushing out another patch for its Reader and Acrobat software. The company also patched a critical issue in Flash Player Thursday. read more »
By Michael Malakata , Computerworld Zambia 11 Feb, 2010
A new report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center has named Nigeria, Africa's largest telecom market by investment and subscription, as number three in the world and the top African nation in the U.S. agency's cybercrime rankings. read more »
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World (US) 11 Feb, 2010
The U.S. government is shifting its strategy for defending federal networks against a rising tide of hacking attacks launched by foreign governments and criminals. read more »
By Paul Meller, IDG News Service\Brussels Bureau 11 Feb, 2010
The European Parliament Thursday voted to block an agreement reached by the 27 E.U. national governments and the U.S. last month to allow European citizens' personal financial data to be analyzed by American authorities investigating the financing of terrorism. read more »
By Phil Lieberman, president & CEO, Lieberman Software, and Henry Helgeson, co-CEO, Merchant Warehouse, 11 Feb, 2010
About a year ago security at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. was breached and information affecting over 100 million credit cards stolen. Was it Heartland’s fault, or should the credit card companies shoulder more of the responsibility? read more »
In the months leading up to the ICANN meeting in Nairobi, majority of discussions and conference calls were dominated by security concerns and emergency meetings with some people wondering whether the meeting will take place or not. read more »
