American Reporter - In the last year or so, a new word found it’s way into our jargon: “phishing.” This is mail, whether electronic or postal, but nevertheless, usually an inquiry about a credit account. The last four digits of your charge account number is typed in

HP Hopes For ‘Secure Advantage’
InternetNews.com - For PCs, HP also introduced the HP Anti-phishing Toolbar, a two-factor authentication software add-on developed at HP Labs to help reduce online fraud stemming from phishing scams. Whittener said the toolbar helps users manage their passwords and

SonicWall Upgrades E-mail Security Software
PC World - Email Security 6.0 protects corporations against spam, viruses, phishing attacks, and other threats while also preventing sensitive or regulated information from leaving an organization, officials say. SonicWall’s 6000 and 8000 appliances achieve high

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Cape Times - I don’t have a password! Enter your Star subscriber number, leave the password blank and press LOGIN. You will then get to choose your own password and check that your subscriber details are correct. Please remember when you try to log in that the

Browsers fail to curb phishing
ITnews - Criminals skirting security measures, says anti-phishing head. Anti-phishing features inside popular browsers are failing to curb the onslaught of emails that attempt to steal confidential information. Both the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0

How secure is your VoIP?
ICT World - From denial-of-service attacks, eavesdropping, phishing and toll fraud, intruders can gain control of the VoIP network to not only create resource exhaustion, long term busy signals and force dropped calls, but also to gain access to

Mozilla rewriting a lot of code for upcoming Firefox V3
ITnews - She added that programmers are replacing a lot of older code to increase performance, make the code base more modular and handle new security threats, like phishing and malicious Web sites. “As we’re doing this, we’re considering security features

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