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Microsoft: No New Sybari Sales for Unix, Linux

Microsofts enterprise anti-virus plans do not extend to customers on Unix and Linux platforms. On the day the software giant completed its purchase of Sybari...

Spoofing Flaw Haunts IE, Firefox, Safari

A newly discovered flaw in all the major Web browsers could allow Internet scammers to successfully launch phishing attacks, according to a warning from...

How Safe Are the New Contactless Payment Systems?

As the retail industry starts to embrace contactless payment in a big way—led by $41 billion retailer 7-Eleven and Chase, the nations largest issuer...

Spam Tools Take on Anti-Fraud Chores

Even as some e-mail sender authentication schemes appeared stalled by implementation problems, participants at Inbox, the pre-eminent e-mail confab held earlier this month in...

Sun Debuts Compliance Offering

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will announce the availability of its StorEdge 5310 Compliance Archiving System for enterprises seeking to achieve greater compliance assurance.Featuring...

Financial Firms Fight Back Against Phishing

Executives at financial institutions are frustrated—very frustrated. Who can blame them? Theyve spent tons of time and energy building their online infrastructures and the publics...

We Need a Spyware Law

Spyware has rapidly advanced from a minor nuisance to a serious problem, meriting the attention of the courts and Congress. In our coverage this...

Identity Theft: An Inside Job

Companies that engage in financial transactions are bound by law to establish and enforce information security programs to prevent identity theft. However, current laws...

Advertisers Leery of Marketers Methods

With two anti-spyware bills gaining passage in the U.S. House of Representatives, Beltway observers say the chances for some kind of anti-spyware law being...

Bank of America Lays Groundwork

Although future server-to-server authentication and authorization dominated the discussion at the recent Inbox conference, Bank of America Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., is moving...