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Encryption Still Troubling for Enterprises

A new report published by Osterman Research and sponsored by e-mail security specialists CertifiedMail contends that many enterprises are still struggling to get sufficient...

U.S. Computers Account for Most Attacks

People like myself are frequently guilty of blaming crime blocs in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Far East for generating the majority of today's...

AARP Hacked Via Blog Comments

Most malware gangs probably don't have many members nearing retirement age, but that hasn't stopped them from targeting people who already have, or at...

Airline E-ticket Scam Touches Down

Researchers are warning of an emerging malware campaign that advertises itself as airline e-ticket information to lure users into infecting their machines with a...

National Guard Site Hacked

Talk about letting your guard down.Roger Thompson, chief research officer at AVG, has discovered a compromise in a National Guard site through which one...

Mozilla Joins Stopbadware Effort

The fine folks over at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society have added another powerful ally to their Stopbadware online malware filtering...

Critical Flaw Found in Adobe Illustrator

Researchers have uncovered an extremely serious security flaw in Adobe's popular Illustrator graphics program. Found by Ernst & Young vulnerability expert and sometimes blogger Nathan...

Hot or Not? Cybercriminals as Celebrity Meters

Somewhere Britney Spears is weeping softly into a throw pillow adorned with her formerly wholesome countenance and wondering where it all went wrong.No, we're...

Carleton University – Home of the Asinine Administrators

I remember when I got to college in 1992 there was this guy I met in my dorm who was already way tapped into...

Hungarian Government Spyware Scandal Unfolds

Once again it's been proven that government networks that one might consider to be among the most secure in the world are not immune...