Lexington Herald-Leader - It insists customers’ personal photos and other files are safer with the Geek Squad than with most independent computer repair services. The company has rigorous privacy and security measures in place, including checking workers’ bags before and

Bill Husted: First step to securing data: Use your brain
Columbus Dispatch - I used to kid Laura about her obsession with computer security. She was constantly trying new firewall programs and could flawlessly rattle off settings to make a wireless router safe. She earned an A in the technical part. But on a visit to her

Posts in Security
CNET News - Previous) legislation (Government Network Security Act, October 2003) was enacted to require Federal agencies to develop and implement plans to protect the security and privacy of government computer systems from the risks posed by peer-to-peer file

Hackers, defenders target security, iPhones, MySpace and more
Worldnews.com - Computer security wizards are gathering to share insights about threats ranging from cyber warfare to hacking Apple iPhones or MySpace website profile pages. Briefings that begin Wednesday at the 11th annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas include

Anchiva Systems Surpasses 750,000 Malware Signatures
PR Newswire - SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ — Anchiva Systems, Inc., a leading provider of Web security appliances for the enterprise, today announced its research lab, Rapid RxLabs, is now delivering over 750,000 signatures to detect and prevent

Security experts seek bids
Cincinnati Enquirer - NEW YORK For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough. Now they want money. Critics say the purity of research is in jeopardy as discoveries are

Malware in Ads Is an Old Story
eWeek - The story says “Eighty percent of malicious computer code on the Internet is found in online ads, according to a recent study by computer-security firm Finjan Inc.” It spends a lot of time talking about an incident in May where malicious code found

Meet Web 2.0’s evil twin
Computerworld Australia - But many security experts agree that its pervasiveness is going beyond people’s homes and into the workplace, as employees access these sites from their office computer. “The most dangerous part of any computer system are the people who run it

Computer need fixing? Read this first
Evansville Courier-Press - Besides just pictures and documents, your computer’s hard drive can contain financial records or references to your Social Security number. With this information, someone could easily steal your identity. Geek Squad has claimed that issues like this

Websense Announces Speakers at Upcoming Industry Events
MSN MoneyCentral - Websense, Inc. WBSN , protects more than 25 million employees from external and internal computer security threats. Using a combination of preemptive ThreatSeeker(TM) malicious content identification and categorization technology and information

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