Forbes - Every day, businesses, financial institutions and consumers rely on computer networks for sensitive tasks, sending private information across the perilous cyberspace–an area haunted by identity thieves. This reliance on electronic networks to

Immigrant Verification System Flawed, Critics Say
NPR News - Some 30,000 businesses have now signed onto a federal computer program to check the legal status of new hires, and the Department of Homeland Security says 1,000 more are joining every week. It’s an exponential increase for a system first known as

Guardian Announces Exclusive Distribution Agreement with Hi-Tec
Forbes - The impact of Guardian’s industry-first computer aided detection technologies are immediate and profound for helping to eliminate human error in both the Homeland Security and the Medical Industry sectors. The Company’s software solutions can be

Botmaster cops to four felonies
The Register - An American computer security consultant has agreed to plead guilty to four felony counts related to a series of schemes that used botnets to steal PayPal and online banking identities of Windows users and install malware on more than 250,000

EU nations set to endorse expansion of bloc’s borderless travel zone
International Herald Tribune - To expand the passport-free zone, the EU has had to revamp its border security system, which is run via a common EU computer database that allows participating states to share passport data on non-EU citizens who enter the Schengen zone. The current

Job of the Day: Security Professionals
WOAI - ABM Security Services (formerly ACSS), a subsidiary of ABM Industries Incorporated, is one of the nation s largest private security providers for high-rise buildings, high-tech computer campuses and complexes, financial institutions, data center

Schools look at computer security after hacking
WSTM - School districts are taking a look at computer security after several Fayetteville-Manlius students were charged with hacking into the computer system. Chris Nelson, the computer specialist for the North Syracuse School District says the Fayetteville

Cybercrime: How online crooks are costing us billions of dollars
Silicon Valley - Average annual losses from security incidents doubled to $345,000 per company in the 2007 Computer Security Institute survey. A 2006 FBI estimate pegged the total cost of cybercrime to businesses above $67 billion. These alarming statistics exclude a

Small Business: Internet surfing at work — is it cheating or
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jones, Rose, Dykstra and Associates, a Columbia, Md., company whose services include computer security, has installed software that prevents staff members from visiting sites such as MySpace and Facebook, which some people use to communicate with

Tags: