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Breach-notification laws not working?
Research fails to find a correlation between states with disclosure laws and reduced identity theft, suggesting the best defense for concerned citizens is to take action themselves. 2008-06-25 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11524 Ransomware resisting crypto cracking efforts Kaspersky calls for a massive effort to break the code keys used by a malicious program that encrypts its victim's data and asks for ransom, but other experts doubt the keys can be found or that finding them will help. 2008-06-13 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11523 Boycott spotlights antivirus testing issues Security firm Trend Micro refuses to apply for future VB100 certifications, highlighting a debate over how to best test antivirus software. 2008-06-09 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11522 Hired gun blamed for business outage Video-content firm Revision3 accuses anti-piracy company MediaDefender -- known for its aggressive tactics against file sharers -- of attacking its servers over the weekend. 2008-05-30 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11521 Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges Federal prosecutors charge the parent who allegedly badgered a girl to suicide with three counts of computer crime, but law experts worry about a dangerous precedent. 2008-05-16 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11519 Admins warned of brute-force SSH attacks Normally considered a low-level threat on the Internet, scans for default-configured secure shell servers spiked this week. 2008-05-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11518 Groups warn travelers to limit laptop data In a letter to Congress, nearly three dozen organizations protest the seizures of electronic devices by U.S. customs officials, an act upheld by a federal appeals court in a recent ruling. 2008-05-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11516 Patches pose significant risk, researchers say A group of four computer scientists say Windows Update -- and other patch services -- should be redesigned, after they create a technique to quickly produce attack code from a distributed patch. 2008-04-23 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11514 U.S. gov't pushes cybersecurity at con Top Bush Administration officials descend on the RSA Security Conference laying out their plans for protecting critical networks and giving a small taste of the latest national cyber exercise, Cyber Storm II. 2008-04-12 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11513 Web developers, fix thy Flash Flaws that allow cross-site scripting attacks through Adobe Flash files could let attackers compromise online accounts and local networks. Yet, Web publishers have been slow to fix their sites, a security researcher says. 2008-03-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11511 |
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