Visa pressures banks into closing spammers' accounts

Visa pressures banks into closing spammers' accounts


Visa pressures banks into closing spammers' accounts

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 07:15 AM PST

When computer science professor Stefan Savage and his team of researchers unveiled their analysis of the spam monetization model last year, they described 15 steps required for it to work. They al...

Programmer hacks GitHub to prove a point

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 06:01 AM PST

Russian programmer Egor Homakov has recently chosen a questionable tactic to prove the danger that a Ruby on Rails public key form update vulnerability poses to systems based on this popular open sour...

ISO 27001: An overview of ISMS implementation process

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 05:15 AM PST

Although many people consider ISO 27001 as a bureaucratic standard with no real benefits, actually the opposite is true – if it is implemented properly, not only will it enhance the marketing position...

Tax-themed spam email leads to malware

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 03:58 AM PST

Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly adept at turning out legitimate-looking spam emails, making sometimes even more experience users fall for the various scams. SANS Internet Storm Center han...

Security budgets increase due to EU data protection laws

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 03:29 AM PST

Tufin announced the results of a survey assessing how the recently announced updates to EU Data Protection legislation will impact IT compliance efforts. 42% of the 100 network security managers ...

Microsoft: Cloud computing to create millions of jobs

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PST

Microsoft today published commissioned research from analyst firm IDC indicating that cloud computing will create nearly 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. IDC's research predicts revenues from ...

Pinterest users targeted with scams

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 02:41 AM PST

Pinterest, the pinboard-styled social photo sharing website that got so popular even Mark Zuckerberg opened a profile to see what all the fuss was about, has also caught the attention of online scamme...

AirCover: Personal security app for iOS and Android

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 02:08 AM PST

BlueSprig launched AirCover, a personal security app and location tool for iOS and Android devices. AirCover protects users from loss, theft, viruses, malware and other threats to mobile devices, whil...

Video: Art Coviello interviews Tony Blair

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 01:45 AM PST

At the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco last week, Art Coviello, Executive Vice President of EMC interviewed Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britian. ...

Voltage Security unveils Mobile Plus initiative

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 09:30 PM PST

Voltage Security announced Voltage Security Mobile Plus, an initiative to extend its existing mobile security solutions to protect the new generation of mobile devices, applications and data. Acc...

Week in review: Facebook CSO interview, RSA Conference 2012 coverage

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 09:15 PM PST

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, videos, interviews and podcasts: RSA Conference 2012 coverage Last week, the Help Net Security team was hard at work at the RSA C...

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