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Researchers advise cyber self defense in the cloud

Security researchers are warning that Web-based applications are increasing the risk of identity theft or losing personal data more than ever before.

By Dan Nystedt | 12 October, 2009 21:16

Tags: cloud computing, security, web-based apps

Citing cybercrime, FBI director doesn't bank online

The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt.

By Robert McMillan | 08 October, 2009 06:15

Tags: fbi, phishing, security

Ducks, dorks and deviants: Wackiest stories of 2008

It's not all bits and bytes

Top 10 ways collaboration, mobility amplify data leakage dangers: Cisco study

Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco.

By Jim Duffy | 01 October, 2008 10:04

Tags: Cisco

Angry IT workers: A ticking time bomb?

It was 9:30 on the morning of March 4, 2002, and something was terribly wrong at the offices of PaineWebber UBS. Computers in branches all over the country began showing disc errors. A logic bomb buried deep within the machines had wiped their hard drives clean, preventing 17,000 brokers from making trades.

By Dan Tynan | 23 September, 2008 09:02

Tags: corporate issues, personnel

20 more IT mistakes to avoid

Back in 2004, InfoWorld's then-CTO Chad Dickerson polled the best and brightest to reveal 20 IT mistakes that were surefire recipes for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and in some cases, lost jobs.

By Neil McAllister | 16 September, 2008 08:33

Tags: applications, authentication, corporate issues, environment, personnel, programming, SaaS

Web 2.0 applications and sites (and security concerns)

A recent survey released by security software firm Symantec found 66 per cent of Millennial employees, those born after 1980, admit to using Web 2.0 technologies, such as Facebook and YouTube, while at work. The same poll found younger workers also regularly store corporate data on personal devices, such as PCs and USB drives.

Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue

Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on US$5 million bail. News reports have depicted a rogue admin taking a network hostage for reasons unknown, but new information from a source close to the situation presents a different picture.

How CAPTCHA got trashed

CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it's an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work.

Quest homes in on Unix password management

Quest Privilege Manager for Unix (QPM) currently only works with Unix derivatives. No Windows allowed.

Symark makes mark in privileged access market

Symark, late in 2006, broke code development ranks with OEM partner eDMZ Security. The PowerKeeper 2.0 running on HP hardware we tested represents some slight changes in terms of flexibility, operating system and application support between the two offerings. The company plans to release PowerKeeper 3.0 this summer, but that revised code was not ready for us to test.