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Google in curious alliance with click-fraud detection firm

2008-10-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734a4 in Network World on Security
 
In a development that would have seemed impossible two years ago, Google is cooperating publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship
 
Tags: click-fraud detection company, google, click forensics, rocky relationship, ago, publicly, impossible, development
 
 
 
 
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Top Five Intriguing Ideas for Authentication in 2008

2007-12-10 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
Controls as part of a broader strategy Organizations still make decisions on how to authenticate requests (often users) based on individual applications, infrastructure deployments or regulatory requirements. This is one of the contributors to a "quilt of security doilies", to paraphrase the CTO of a top bank who I met recently. Point security...
 
Tags: strategy, information risk management, organizations, broader strategy, increasingly adopt frameworks, authentication, individual applications, security doilies, controls
 
 
 
 
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Putting all one's eggs in a single basket

2007-05-21 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
I was crawling my way through the series of tubes that is the internet, when I ran into this news article . It seems a certain large financial institution's consumers were hit by a banking Trojan . This financial institution had deployed tokens to all its online banking customers, but the Trojan managed to bypass this protection by combining two...
 
Tags: financial institution, trojan, news article, fraud techniques, protection, internet, tubes, tokens, hit
 
 
 
 
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Security World: iPhone will be a primary target for cybercriminals in 2008

2007-12-12 14:06:29 by Editor in Help Net Security - News
 
Security predictions released by Arbor Networks reveal that the iPhone will be a major target for cybercriminals in 2008. The forecast also highlights Chinese specific crime as a major issue for the N
 
Tags: arbor networks reveal, major issue, iphone, major target, security predictions, cybercriminals, forecast
 
 
 
 
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Botnets, Fastflux and DDoS in D.C.

2007-08-25 12:10:00 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
This Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 28 at the AED conference center in Washington, D.C. the third Internet Security Operations and Intelligence workshop will be held. The participant list, as security events go, is star-studded. If you follow popular security lists and blogs you'll recognize a lot of names, such as Johannes Ullrich from the...
 
Tags: security events, events, security, internet security operations, internet, aed conference center, conference, exploit prevention labs, roger thompson
 
 
 
 
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The Case for Automated Log Management in Meeting HIPAA Compliance

2007-11-28 21:45:53 by Editor in Help Net Security - Articles
 
The Impact of HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA, was passed in 1996 by the US Department of Health and Human Standards (HHS) to ensure the privacy and s
 
Tags: hipaa, human standards, ensure, department, health, hhs, privacy, impact
 
 
 
 
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8 hot-button issues to watch in '08

2008-01-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x84706ac in Network World on Security
 
Ready for 2008? Budgets may tighten up, but IT's challenges will just keep growing: security problems, virtualization technology, legal issues, users who can't be stopped and that worrisome baby-boomer brain drain. Here are eight hot-button issues to watch out for in the coming year
 
Tags: hot-button issues, legal issues, virtualization technology, challenges, users, budgets, security, ready
 
 
 
 
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US-CERT warns of flaw in latest RealPlayer

2008-01-02 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The US-CERT is warning computer users of a possible problem with the latest version of RealPlayer after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software IT Audit Checklists Advertisement Prepare for your next internal IT audit. Checklists cover security, risk management, PCI, and more
 
Tags: audit, checklists cover security, russian security company, audit checklists, multimedia software, us-cert, risk management, critical flaw, computer users
 
 
 
 
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Surveillance is endemic in many democracies, complains privacy group

2008-01-04 08:00:00 by Editor in IT Compliance
 
Terrorism concerns have led to reduced privacy in many but not all democracies
 
Tags: terrorism concerns, democracies, privacy, led
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Metamorphosis in 2007 - Trends and Developments

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2007-12-12 10:02:39 by HASH0x89e8bec in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge