Feb 27
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Companies are competing to introduce a single, secure login that would work for all bank accounts, shopping sites and other web activities By her own admission, Anna Soames has no talent for remembering passwords. Just to operate day-to-day, though, the London-based accountant needs no fewer than eight: three for work, another three for separate bank accounts, two for e-mail addresses she keeps, and one for her post-graduate university course. Each invariably has its own login. “I generally go for a variation of my dog’s name,” Ms Soames, 29, said. “But sometimes that’s not long enough, so I have to add numbers after it, and then I forget which numbers, and so I end up writing them all down in the back of my diary – which kind of defeats the purpose, I guess.”
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Feb 27
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Intersil Corp. introduced the ISL12024 and ISL12025 micropower real-time clock/calendar devices, which feature an integrated factory-set 64-bit unique ID that is read-only and tamper-proof for increased security and reduced footprint and BOM cost. The ISL12024/25 continue the trend toward feature integration by combining clock/calendar/alarm functions with 4-Kbits of EEPROM memory and 64 bits of unique ID all in a tiny 8-lead package suitable for both fixed and portable applications. The ISL12025 also includes a CPU supervisor function.
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Feb 27
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Verizon Wireless said Monday that it has won a permanent injunction against a company it accused of sending text message spam, a significant step in keeping the unsolicited messages off cell phones. In the judgment, Specialized Programming and Marketing and its owner, Charles Henderson, are prohibited from sending text message spam to Verizon Wireless customers. They are also required to pay damages in excess of $200,000. Verizon Wireless filed the suit after nearly 100,000 text messages were sent to Verizon Wireless customers offering them a prize vacation for a cruise to the Bahamas.
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Feb 27
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
New Zealand organisations will find their online defences tested for the first time in a huge international cyber-security exercise being coordinated by the US Department of Homeland Security next year. Private and public-sector organisations will be involved in next March’s Cyber Storm II attack simulation, along with organisations in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. The exercise will simulate, on a private network, a series of hacking and “cyber-terrorism events” attempted via the internet.
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Feb 27
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Malaysia’s securities watchdog said Monday it has frozen two local bank accounts, shut down two Web sites and questioned several people suspected linked to a global Internet investment scam. The move came after the Dubai Financial Services Authority requested for assistance on the fraudulent scheme operated by Cambridge Capital Trading, the Securities Commission said in a statement.
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