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News (42)

• Keeping the 'con' out of consultant

  Are the advantages of hiring consultants or outsourcing processes for large businesses only, or can smaller businesses also benefit?

• Twitter hack strikes Obama, Britney Spears

  An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley.

• Salesforce staff speared by phishers

  Salesforce.com has revealed few details about a security breach caused by a phishing attack against an employee that surrended internal customer database details.

• Microsoft probes IE7, Vista bug reports

  Microsoft is investigating two recently disclosed security vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista, the company said.

• IBM donates new privacy tool to open source

  IBM has developed software designed to let people keep personal information secret when doing business online and donated it to the Higgins open-source project.

Blogs (2)

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  Banks are confusing consumers on PC security

  Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.

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  Web 2.0 makes phishing spam obsolete

  In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.

Features and Case Studies (14)

• A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime

  Is the war on cyber crime as simple as pointing the finger at China, Russia and the US? We investigate whether these parts of the world are being unfairly blamed.

• The new face of cybercrime

  Computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker says the rise of the professional hacker means the IT world must unlearn old lessons.

• Keeping the 'con' out of consultant

  Are the advantages of hiring consultants or outsourcing processes for large businesses only, or can smaller businesses also benefit?

• Who's really responsible for hacker attacks

  A new book postulates that it's human error--not hardware or software glitches--that leaves networks vulnerable to attack.

• Real-life internet scammers dissected

  Listen to audio recordings of conversations with real-life internet scammers in this guide to their history and recent activities.

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