Click fraud rate drops in Q1
April 23, 2009Click fraud, a scam based on the highly profitable search advertising business, dipped in the first quarter after hitting an all-time high in the last three months of 2008.
New surveys on small business security and success
April 23, 2009Understanding small business is tough because there are so many of them and they vary so widely. But all small businesses share certain problems, attitudes, and approaches to those problems. Let's give a hand to Symantec and Network Solutions for doing their part to discover the state of security and creating (and studying) the Small Business Success Index.
Hathaway advocates for direct White House role on cybersecurity
April 23, 2009President Obama's acting senior director for cyberspace called for a more direct White House role in coordinating national cybersecurity efforts.
Obama administration said to consider military cybercommand
April 22, 2009The Obama administration is considering a new military cybercommand to protect Defense Department networks and develop offensive cyberwarfare capabilities, according to The Wall Street Journal.
One bot-infected PC = 600,000 spam messages a day
April 22, 2009Some bot-infected PCs can crank out as many as 25,000 spam messages per hour, according to new research from a security firm.
Researchers turn Conficker's own P2P protocol against itself
April 22, 2009Security researchers have updated a free tool that sniffs out the Conficker worm on infected PCs by using the same peer-to-peer protocol the malware uses to communicate with its hacker masters.
Nokia: We don't know why criminals want our old phones
April 22, 2009The mystery of why cybercriminals are offering thousands of dollars for a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer.
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eBay execs call e-fencing bills unfair
April 22, 2009EBay officials criticized three bills targeting 'online marketplaces' while pledging to work with law enforcement officials to help investigate cases of suspected sales of stolen goods on the online auction site.
Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly
April 22, 2009Cybercriminal gangs should be harassed and hunted until they're driven out of business, said today botnet researcher Joe Stewart, as he prepared to pitch a new anti-malware strategy later this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
RSA chief calls for 'inventive collaboration' among security vendors
April 22, 2009Two years after suggesting that independent security vendors were headed for extinction, Art Coviello, president of RSA, is calling for "inventive collaboration" among vendors for dealing with the expanding range of threats facing business and government.