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Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date because the clunky devices were costly, inconvenient and intrusive. All that could change this week when...
More than 10,000 students depend on Jill Cherveny-Keough for trustworthy computing systems. As director of academic computing at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Cherveny-Keough must ensure that dozens of computing centers across the college's campuses run without a hitch. Fall is an esp...
You knew it was coming, and now it's here -- the latest evil spurred by the latest Microsoft security hole. It's called the JpegOfDeath, but JPEG isn't all it threatens. "[F]or the people out there who think you can only be affected through viewing or downloading a JPEG attachment... you're dead wro...
One year ago, the prospects for developing biometrics as a reliable security device for computers were viewed by many industry watchers as a nice idea with little applicable potential. After all, biometric security devices have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But the use of biome...
U.S.-based TruSecure is merging with Betrusted to create a security company with global reach. The new company, to be called Cybertrust, hopes to respond to the expanded risks in IT of not only vulnerabilities and viruses, but also compliance with government regulations on the handling of informatio...
UK officials announced this week the arrest of a 20-year-old there suspected of stealing Cisco source code last May in a case of software theft involving integral Internet components, such as routers and switches, that rely on Cisco's Internet Operating System (IOS). While the Cisco source code -- p...
Financial services companies might be unwitting contributors to the nation's identity theft problem, according to a report from Forrester Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft costs American businesses US$50 billion to $60 billion a ye...
Microsoft's monthly security update was highlighted this week by a JPEG-handling vulnerability that could allow pictures in the format to provide attackers access to targeted machines. Microsoft also announced an "important" code-execution vulnerability in a WordPerfect 5.x converter, but rated the ...
IMlogic today released free software to help companies fight copyright piracy, avoid lawsuits from illegal file sharing and prevent damage from viruses and worms. IM Detector Pro is designed to help corporations detect and block unmanaged instant messaging (IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and Voice over Int...
Two new computer worms have security experts both worried and wondering. One new virus is now capable of monitoring a network to steal passwords or other information, and another virus can hijack the voice capabilities of Windows XP to announce its presence to users. Experts agreed that the network ...
One morning, you receive an e-mail notification from your bank that states it needs to update your credit card data. A fill-in-the-blanks form is attached that asks for information like your address, phone number and password, so you complete it, and hit the Send button. A week later, you are at the...
In an expected move following his arrest and confession earlier this year, an 18-year-old German student has been indicted on computer crimes for his work writing and releasing the Sasser and Netsky worms. Sven Jaschan, who was turned in by a peer who sought a US$250,000 reward from Microsoft, was a...
Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That's the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May ...
The words "copy protection" make Adam Gervin wince. Gervin is senior marketing director for the entertainment technologies group at Macrovision, in Santa Clara, California, a company best known for cooking up ways to thwart the copying of movies and music from tapes and discs. He's also point man in...
Computer users, faced with never-ending security attacks from surfing the Internet and opening e-mail, are showing increased interest in switching Web browsers. Downloads of popular non-Microsoft Web browsers have doubled this summer, software makers say. The trend toward considering alternative bro...
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