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Obama appoints federal CTO, industry applauds choice

April 20, 2009

President Obama appointed the first-ever federal chief technology officer during the weekend.
 

Rogue product ads on F-Secure, McAfee, Trend Micro searches

April 17, 2009

Google searches for a number of security products and vendors -- including F-Secure, Norton, McAfee and Trend Micro -- have yielded advertisements with links to rogue products.
 

Possible bug in Apple's iPhone

April 17, 2009

It may be possible to trick the iPhone into running code that enables shellcode -- which if successfully exploited would enable an attacker to run whatever code they wanted on the phone.
 

Mac attack: Bot herders going after Apple computers

April 17, 2009

Bot herders have found a way to infest Mac computers: via pirated software.
 

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Microsoft Forefront now in the clouds

April 16, 2009

Microsoft has extended its Forefront brand and is now putting messaging security into the cloud.
 

Corporate users increasingly skirt security infrastructures

April 16, 2009

In a recent assessment, organizations had an average of 156 applications traversing their networks -- some of which pose a danger to the organization.
 

Waledac kicks off new spam campaign

April 16, 2009

A new campaign to lure users into downloading malware is running on the Waledac botnet, according to security researchers.
 

Phishing increased 40 percent in 2008

April 15, 2009

The percentage of people losing money to phishing attacks is higher than ever -- five million consumers in the United States fell victim during 2008, an increase of 40 percent over 2007, according to a new report from Gartner.
 

Criminals exploit careless mistakes as data breaches hit record

April 15, 2009

In a study of large-scale data breaches in 2008, Verizon Business found that cybercriminals profited mostly from exploiting careless mistakes.
 

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