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Company Touts Low-Cost Facial Recognition

Security experts have long predicted that personal identification technologies such facial recognition software would someday replace passwords in the common business setting, and one...

Convergence and Security Headline CTIA Show

The convergence of wireless services, expansion of the digital footprint in the home and office, and security defenses necessary to protect all those technologies...

Visa Putting Retail IT Execs Everywhere but Where They Want to Be

Visa recently sent a confidential memo to selected business partners advising them of a potentially major security threat involving Fujitsu POS software. We all know...

Imperva Web-App Firewall Adapts to Users Networks

The problem with first-generation Web application firewalls is that they require users to make a variety of changes to existing networks. Imperva plans to change...

Microsoft Rebrands FrontBridge in Hosted Services Push

Microsoft has rebranded FrontBridge Technologies, as well as the secure messaging solutions it acquired along with the company last August. The company will now be...

Hackers Use BBC News as IE Attack Lure

The ongoing zero-day attacks against users of Microsofts Internet Explorer browser have taken an ominous, social-engineering twist. According to an alert issued by Websense Security...

Cell Phone Spy Program Raises Concerns

A program designed to help people spy on their loved ones mobile phone usage is raising concerns among some security experts who say that...

Hackers Serve Rootkits with Bagles

Malicious hackers have fitted rootkit features into the newest mutants of the Bagle worm, adding a stealthy new danger to an already virulent threat. According...

Registry Aims to Cut Phishing Bait

As businesses continue to struggle with criminals trying to hijack their online content in order to dupe people with so-called phishing schemes, one company...

ID Theft Bill Readies for a Vote

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has approved an identity theft bill that would set a national standard for data brokers efforts to...