Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.
Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.
World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Have you ever needed to PING a host, run trace a Web route, or see what information you're exposing to Internet without having to reconfigure the security on your perimeter devices? Have you tired of having to call your managed security services provider to let them know it's you creating ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Security researchers Friday warned of a new, massive spam campaign that tries to convince users to install the long-running Storm bot Trojan on their PCs.
The new spam blitz is difficult to characterize, said researchers from MX Logic Inc. and F-Secure, because of the nearly 40 different subject heads used by ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
From Web sites related to online banking, credit unions, financial departments, and social networking sites, phishers are chucking their rods into relatively new territory: video streaming sites.
Trend Micro Content Security team learned about this latest (and very interesting) phishing technique a few days back. Several phishing domains (see Figure 1) ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
In recent months, Web site compromises have become the most prevalent problem that threatens Internet users from all over. While this trend continues to dominate today’s security issues, let’s not forget about other threats that, although may be not as massive as these attacks, have equally serious ramifications against the ...
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