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Tasting the Spam Omelet

Now that Halloween is over and Thanksgiving is still a few weeks off, it's time to sink our teeth into something different, or really...

Users Finally Waking Up to Cybercrime… Maybe

On a day of endless polling, here's one that you might find even more interesting than all the political postulating. Well, maybe not, but...

Critical Threats, Bad AV Haunted October

A vast majority of the world's most prevalent malware attacks ranked high-risk/critical, or severely dangerous, on researchers' threat rankings during the month of October.According...

Where Are the Registrars?

That's the big question that some people think needs to be answered, or at least one of them, if ICANN is indeed to play...

IRS Earns Higher Grades for Security Testing

The Internal Revenue Service substantially upped the efficacy of its security review programs during fiscal 2008, according to a new report issued by the...

Workers and IT Still Worlds Apart on Datasec

Communication break down, it's always the same.Led Zeppelin likely wasn't talking data security when they penned their classic rock tune low those many years...

Malware E-mails Explode in Q3

Malware-laden e-mail attacks surged during the third quarter of 2008, according to researchers at endpoint security vendor Sophos.Based on the company's latest report, there...

Cost of Malware Growing Per Month

A new research report sponsored by messaging security specialists FaceTime Communications indicates that companies are spending more time and money on malware infections and...

Banks Remain in Attack Crosshairs

Following reports that malware activity is increasing in direct relation to the ongoing uncertainty in the U.S. banking and stock markets, Kaspersky has issued...

More Ties Drawn Between Markets and Malware

PandaLabs' newest report on the ties existing between economic market trends and cybercrime traces an intriguing arc between recent activity in the U.S. stock...