Algeria's president has been re-elected with a huge margin of victory, official results of Thursday's poll show. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won 83% of votes cast, Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni …
The rise of the white collar hacker
IT pros - not spotty teenagers - are now the most usual suspects in cybercrime investigations, a senior Metropolitan Police officer said today. A new breed of white collar criminal is coming to the …
Doubts are cast on prosecution in terror case
Five days before the federal government unveiled the first indictments alleging the operation of a terrorist cell after the 9/11 attacks, a top-ranking Justice Department official offered his …
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Laptop Theft Puts GMAC Customers' Data At Risk
A division of GMAC Financial Services has been quietly informing about 200,000 of its customers that their personal data may have been compromised due to the theft of two laptop computers from an …
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E-commerce and Web presence: The risks and threats
It's always a pleasant surprise when a day goes by without another worm or some form of exploitable vulnerability. That's because we're in shark-infested waters, and now is the time to really focus, …
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Safe as houses
Security is a journey, not a destination A friend once said to me, "Security is a journey, not a destination." He is connected to a distributor selling security products so, of course, he would …
Nigerian govt body to fight Nigerian scams
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has set up a body to fight crimes perpetrated on the Internet, his office said Thursday. The Nigerian Cybercrime working group, headed by National Security Adviser …
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UK companies hit by rise in costly hacking and phishing attacks
External attacks now account for two-thirds of incidents, says DTI... External attacks by hackers, organised criminal gangs and phishing fraudsters are responsible for a dramatic increase in the …
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Identity breach risk accelerates
Flaws in identity management have huge impact. Security breaches resulting from identity management flaws are rising and creating huge problems for businesses, research shows. Identity management …
Security warning on internet telephony
MANY corporates are expected to move into IP telephony towards the end of the year, but many are oblivious to critical security threats, according to research by analyst META Group. The researcher …
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