New electronic privacy laws are forcing businesses to rethink how they handle their digital data. The retail industry is now regulated by new privacy laws aimed at reducing the growth of identity theft and consumer fraud. Congress passed The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, known as FACTA,...

Threat From Mobile Device Viruses a Sleeping Giant

July 2, 2005

Communication security experts do not all agree that cell phone and mobile device viruses pose imminent threats to U.S. consumers. Whether virus attacks become a problem in six months or five years might depend on how cell phone carriers react now to the threat potential. A Gartner report by securit...

Adoption of Alternate E-Mail Security Technologies Pushed

June 25, 2005

The adoption earlier this month of a new e-mail security technology by e-commerce merchant Amazon.com, Internet service provider RoadRunner and Internet security firm IronPort Systems signals what industry watchers say might be the start of a trend that will harden e-mail from phishing and spamming ...

Combating ID Theft on the Internet

June 18, 2005

Identity theft from phishing and pharming attacks is one of the biggest problems computer users face. It can take ID theft victims four or five years to repair the damage, according to financial consultants. "The most prevalent ID theft threat is the phishing attack, and it is getting worse. Attacks...

E-Learning Capturing Market Attention

June 11, 2005

Widespread use of computer networks and the adoption of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phone service are fueling the rapid growth of electronic learning beyond the classroom. The e-learning technology is improving the way for students to earn degrees and enhancing the way employers in-service t...

Managing IM and E-Mail Threats in the Workplace

May 28, 2005

Security risks from instant messaging networks and spam-clogged e-mail inboxes are forcing corporations to finds ways to either limit employee access or clamp down with improved security. Financial firms have an added burden. They must treat instant messages the same as e-mail communication and ensu...

Push-to-Talk Might Evolve as Standard Cellular Feature

May 22, 2005

In the highly competitive cellular marketplace, carriers are always on the lookout for an edge, a way to differentiate their services from their competitors' offerings. Somewhat surprisingly, for more than a decade, Nextel Inc. has been able to use one enhanced service, Push-to-Talk (PTT), not only ...

First State of Spyware Report Shows Bad Guys Winning

May 11, 2005

Consumers and enterprise IT managers have to become more vigilant about spyware and adware infections to stay ahead of new threats. However, greater awareness of security issues since last year has tipped the scales slightly against intruders. That's a lesson to be learned from an analysis of data c...

Fight Heats Up over Municipal WiFi

May 10, 2005

Philadelphia might be known as the city of brotherly love but what it's generating with its experiment with government-sponsored wireless broadband access is far from that emotion. Last fall, the city aired its intentions to make itself a gigantic WiFi hotspot, a project with a projected price tag o...

Internal Threats Still Major Network Concern

April 23, 2005

As wireless technology gains popularity, network security issues continue to multiply. However, wireless connectivity isn't the only major concern for IT managers; corporate workers pose heightened threats from within enterprise structures. One of the most productive -- and abused -- communication t...

Small ISP Breaks Ground with Wireless Broadband Network

April 5, 2005

Fall River, Mass., is an old textile town sprawled along the hills on the banks of the Taunton river, its salad days more than a century behind it. Although located only some 50 miles south of Boston and its high-tech "Golden Horseshoe," Fall River has never been associated with the phrase "state of...

Computer Security Comes of Age

February 19, 2005

Computer security, until now, was a matter of bolting on third-party hardware products or adding on software to screen out unauthorized users. Not so any more. Keyboard-bound passwords, smart cards and dongles are becoming a thing of the past. These staples of the old school of computer security are...

War on Spyware Widening

January 8, 2005

The arrival of the New Year finds software security firms scampering to create new products or adapt existing packages to protect the enterprise workplace from spyware. Even Microsoft has joined the fray with its mid-December acquisition of Giant Software and that company's innovative AntiSpyware pa...

Enterprise Spyware Threats Reach All-Time High

November 6, 2004

An industrywide survey shows that corporate networks are being bombarded with spyware infiltration in record numbers, but relatively few corporations are deploying adequate solutions to combat the threat. The survey, conducted by Equation Research for Internet security firm Webroot Software, canvass...

Financial Institutions Unwitting Accomplices of ID Thieves

September 16, 2004

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...

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