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Living in the Golden Era of Security Breaches

Lest you thought that the pace of newly reported data loss incidents had slowed down -- perhaps driven by greater awareness, improved security or...

Catching Up with Fast Flux

Renowned botnet researcher Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks offers up some interesting new data in a recent blog posting over at CircleID on the...

Bad Guys Love the BlackBerry

Guess who else figured out that RIM's BlackBerry ecosystem is the most secure wireless business platform out there? Yep, it's the cyber-criminals.According to an...

Of Hackers and Headlines

The trend for ages has been for hackers and malware distributors to tap into current events to more effectively target their attacks at end...

Spam Trends Down?

Bucking some reports to the contrary, which find spam levels incrementally increasing over time, MessageLabs' latest research paper claims that unsolicited e-mail dropped noticeably...

Fake AV Driving Adware Boom

Adware volume jumped during Q3 of 2008, driven largely via the use of schemes involving fake anti-virus programs, security researchers report.According to PandaLabs' Q3...

ICANN Heeds Call to Ban Abusive Registrars

Well, it seems that ICANN has indeed been listening to security researchers that have been increasingly critical of certified registrars that appear to be...

Obama Trounces McCain…in Spam Campaign

With a long road to go in the official race for the White House, Democratic candidate Barack Obama is already putting a sound beating...

Skype-China Breach: Is Anyone Really Surprised?

So, it's been confirmed that the Chinese government has been eavesdropping on politically sensitive Skype conversations conducted by and with its citizens, but is...

Q&A: New PCI Standard Cuts WEP, Courts Flexibility

Today is the day that the latest iteration of the PCI Data Security Standard, version 1.2, officially hits the streets, and eWeek Security Watch...