Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Financial services organisations are spending significantly more on IT to mitigate risk and manage payments, a new report says. The trading and brokerage, fund management, hedge fund, investments and securities services sectors are increasingly turning to technology to keep up with growth in management information, compliance and the pressure to innovate within a highly competitive marketplace.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
The accused mastermind behind the Panda Burning Incense worm has not done a very good job of making amends, according to security vendor Symantec. Li Jun, a 25 year-old man from Wuhan, in central China, was arrested last month for allegedly selling copies of Panda. He is the first man to be arrested in China for virus-writing, according to China’s Xinhua state news agency.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that attacker could take control of a user’s system by exploiting a flaw in the way the company’s Windows software handles animated-cursor files. Animated cursors are looping images that replace the standard pointer on Windows systems. The flaw affects how all Microsoft operating systems–including the latest versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista–handle animated-cursor files, according to the software giant. There does not seem to be any evidence that the flaw is being used in a real-world attack, but Microsoft gave its standard rundown on the possible vectors of attack.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
There are actually many sources of unstructured data, which accounts for much of the data growth that we’ve seen in the enterprise. Estimates dating back to 2003 note that structured data only There are actually many sources of unstructured data, which accounts for much of the data growth that we’ve seen in the enterprise. Estimates dating back to 2003 note that structured data only.
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Mar 30
Friday, March 30th, 2007
After more than two months of refusing to reveal the size and scope of its data breach, TJX Companies Inc. is finally offering more details about the extent of the compromise. In filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, the company said 45.6 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen from one of its systems over a period of more than 18 months by an unknown number of intruders. That number eclipses the 40 million records compromised in the mid-2005 breach at CardSystems Solutions and makes the TJX compromise the worst ever involving the loss of personal data.
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