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Facing a possible end to spam linked to the candidates

News: Obama leads spam election race

As Americans go to the polls to elect their 44th President, the security industry is facing a possible end to spam linked to the candidates.

Secure Computing - 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Failing to meet the threats

Feature: It's time to think differently about protecting data

The recent rash of high profile security breaches, data loss incidents and associated fraud highlights the fact that the security industry is failing to meet the threats.

Secure Computing - 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Focused on protecting patrons and owners from theft by employees, ...

Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books

Hugh Pickens passes along a NYTimes report on software programs called "zappers," which allow even technologically illiterate restaurant and store owners to siphon cash from computer cash registers to cheat ...

Slashdot - 3 months ago
Come to a frank realisation that the current approach to ...

Is whitelisting the the new blacklisting?

The IT security industry has come to a frank realisation that the current approach to preventing malware is simply not working. Is whitelisting, which is the reverse of our current ...

Software News | ZDNet.com.au - 6 months, 1 week ago
Resulted in a doubling of the number of adverse criminal ...

More Shonky Security Operators Being Detected: Shine

A new system of background checks on people applying for licences to work in the security industry has resulted in a doubling of the number of adverse criminal history checks, ...

QLD State Government - 1 year ago
Failing to keep up with the smarts of criminals developing ...

Security industry losing malware battle: IronPort VP

The IT security industry is failing to keep up with the smarts of criminals developing malware, according to IronPort Systems vice president of technology, Pat Peterson.

zdnet Headlines - 1 year, 6 months ago

1 week, 5 days ago Blacklists, whitelists and heuristics: Symantec describes new threats

iTnews talks to Vincent Weafer, VP Security Response, Symantec, about how server-side polymorphism is changing the security landscape.
IT News - 1:07 p.m. Thursday 20th November 2008

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7 months, 3 weeks ago Myspace and Facebook blamed for an increase in identity fraud ... (audio)

John Barron talks to Steve Marden from Internet security firm Symantec
ABC Technology - 11:25 a.m. Wednesday 9th April 2008

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Phishers seek friends on fake Facebook

Social networking Web sites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to the latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report.
zdnet Security - 10:36 a.m. Wednesday 9th April 2008

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Online criminals hit networking sites

Social networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to a new report.The latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report for the second half of 2007 reveals ...
ninemsn Science/Tech - 12:02 a.m. Wednesday 9th April 2008

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8 months, 2 weeks ago Click-fraud trojan targeting Yahoo, Google: Symantec

Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a click-fraud trojan targeted to the online advertising networks of Google, Yahoo and Baidu.com, China's largest independent internet search engine.
Secure Computing - 9:20 a.m. Monday 17th March 2008

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1 year ago Symantec: Second PoC for QuickTime vulnerability

A second proof-of-concept exploit for the QuickTime RTSP vulnerability has been identified by Symantec's security response team.
IT Wire - 4 p.m. Thursday 29th November 2007

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1 year ago Beware of Google links says Symantec researcher

Spammers have found a way of forming Google search queries that link directly to their sites, according to Symantec's security response team.
IT Wire - 5 p.m. Tuesday 6th November 2007

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1 year, 3 months ago Licensing issues delay vPro solution: Symantec

In a further setback for Intel's vPro platform, Symantec has delayed its virtualised security system until licensing issues around Windows CE can be worked out.
zdnet Headlines - 11:01 a.m. Thursday 23rd August 2007

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1 year, 9 months ago Symantec: Vista not a security panacea

Microsoft Windows Vista is a more secure version of Windows, but it doesn't solve all the security problems, according to researchers from Symantec's Security Response Advanced Threat Research team.
IT News - 12:05 p.m. Thursday 1st March 2007

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