Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of defendants it says masqueraded as Yahoo, sending emails claiming recipients had won prizes and instructing them to click on a link or forward personal information to a “Yahoo lottery coordinator” to get their prize. “At times, recipients were instructed to contact another party to arrange for […]
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“It’s huge and it’s getting worse,” said Ian Wilms, chair of the Canadian Association of Police Boards. “You lock your door at night time, but people don’t, when online, just take the 30 seconds to update the security patches on their computer.” The quotes come in a Canwest News Service story which says Canadians are more likely […]
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“It’s huge and it’s getting worse,” said Ian Wilms, chair of the Canadian Association of Police Boards. “You lock your door at night time, but people don’t, when online, just take the 30 seconds to update the security patches on their computer.” The quotes come in a Canwest News Service story which says Canadians are more likely […]
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Thirty eight people have been charged with stealing names, social security numbers, credit card data and other data from unsuspecting Net users. “Indictments unsealed in Los Angeles and New Haven, Conn., say a global crime ring sought to rip off thousands of consumers and hundreds of financial institutions,” according to the Associated Press, which goes on: “The […]
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Thirty eight people have been charged with stealing names, social security numbers, credit card data and other data from unsuspecting Net users. “Indictments unsealed in Los Angeles and New Haven, Conn., say a global crime ring sought to rip off thousands of consumers and hundreds of financial institutions,” according to the Associated Press, which goes on: “The […]
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“Spam King” Sanford Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, have been ordered to pay MySpace some $230 million in damages. US District Judge Audrey B. Collins made the order after the two failed to appear for their court hearing, says the Associated Press. “The judgment is a big victory for MySpace, although service providers often have a […]
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A disgruntled Chilean hacker penetrated government and military servers and posted what he found on them, says the BBC. Claiming he wanted to highlight Chile’s lack of data security, he published confidential records belonging to six million people on the internet, officials say, according to this story. The data which ended up online included ID card numbers, […]
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Yahoo says it will use McAfee software designed to warn users if they’re about to land on a website viruses, spyware and spam. Callled SiteAdvisor, it’s been integrated into Yahoo’s search engine mechanism so if, after performing a search, someone wants to check for sites flagged as suspicious or dangerous, they click “SearchScan,” says PC […]
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Is open source software more secure than proprietary commercial software? It’s an assumption made by many IT managers, says the Washington Post, going on: “Anyone who uses open source can examine the original code to spot any lurking vulnerabilities, and potentially even fix the vulnerabilities themselves. With proprietary software, you have to trust the vendor to do […]
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Is open source software more secure than proprietary commercial software? It’s an assumption made by many IT managers, says the Washington Post, going on: “Anyone who uses open source can examine the original code to spot any lurking vulnerabilities, and potentially even fix the vulnerabilities themselves. With proprietary software, you have to trust the vendor to do […]
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