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Off the wire: Five IRS employees charged with snooping on tax returns
14 May 2008 at 10:08am
Five workers at the Internal Revenue Service's Fresno, California, return processing center were charged Monday with computer fraud and unauthorized access to tax return information for allegedly peek...
Virus Center: Top malware list dominated by malware packers
14 May 2008 at 12:03am
Malware packers have gained even more popularity in the month of April, as three of the positions on BitDefender's April 2008 Top Ten Malware list are occupied with malware packed by such software. Ac...
Security World: ASUS motherboards now offer extensive protection
13 May 2008 at 9:58pm
ASUS has announced key motherboard innovations to provide users with the ultimate in safety and data security. Available on the P5Q series and other top-notch motherboards, these innovations include E...
Article: The Rising Trend of Internet Counter-Intelligence
13 May 2008 at 9:36pm
All types of organizations � from Fortune 500 to "mom-and-pop" operations � have mandated the use of anti-virus, anti-adware, anti-spam, firewall and cookie removal solutions for every employee workst...
Security World: Cryptography performance of over 9 million encryptions per s...
13 May 2008 at 7:26pm
Protegrity and Teradata announced new cryptography performance of over 6 million decryptions and over 9 million encryptions per second. The Protegrity Defiance Defiance DPS uses Teradata User Defin...
Security World: eTelemetry finds rogue access points
13 May 2008 at 7:10pm
eTelemetry announced the release of rogue access point detection and advanced alerting capabilities for Locate, its award-winning network appliance that correlates people with their MAC address, IP ad...
Security World: Seagate self-encrypting laptop hard drives earn NSA qualific...
13 May 2008 at 7:03pm
Seagate announced that the National Security Agency (NSA) has qualified the Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive for use in laptops and other computers deployed by U.S. government agencies and contractors f...
Security World: Secure online shopping and banking with virtualized browsing
13 May 2008 at 2:23am
Check Point announced the general availability of ZoneAlarm ForceField, virtualized browser security solution enabling consumers to bank and shop online, or surf the Internet without fear or limitati...
Security World: Phone-based two-factor authentication for OpenID
13 May 2008 at 2:21am
JanRain and Positive Networks have developed a phone-based, two-factor authentication solution specifically designed to support users of myOpenID. myOpenID, the most popular independent OpenID...
Webcast: What Hackers Know That You Don�t: Wireless Edition
13 May 2008 at 2:13am
Join executives from Textron and AirDefense for this 90-minute educational webcast to discuss the real-world approaches for ensuring bullet-proof security for business-critical wireless networks and c...
Article: How To Protect Your Laptop From Prying Eyes With a Privacy Filter
12 May 2008 at 11:00pm
While attending the RSA Conference show last month in San Francisco, we met a lot of people and talked with a number of companies. We brought home a large list of gadgets, mainly different security-ce...
Security World: IT departments struggle with vulnerability management
12 May 2008 at 6:18pm
A new survey of IT professionals revealed that new regulatory compliance requirements - for implementing satisfactory technology solutions to address security vulnerabilities, data leakage and complia...
Security World: Multispectral fingerprint sensor ensures reliability
12 May 2008 at 6:15pm
Lumidigm and Alphatronics have teamed to create an outdoor biometric access control solution. Alphatronics has utilized the Lumidigm Venus fingerprint sensor to create the first biometric component of...
Security World: Simple two-factor authentication for full disk encryption
12 May 2008 at 6:12pm
Gemalto and McAfee announced a new integrated solution that enables PC and laptop users secure and convenient access to fully encrypted disks through strong, secure, hardware-based, two factor authent...
Security World: Audit and remediate highly-sensitive data-at-rest
12 May 2008 at 6:06pm
Guidance Software released the EnCase Data Audit and Policy Enforcement, a software solution that enables organizations to proactively audit and remediate highly-sensitive data-at-rest residing on des...

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