Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the same period in 2007 driven by a spike in data thefts attributed to employees and contractors, according to an analysis by identity theft experts. The San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center [...]
Passwords are so passé A group of software and online payment companies are teaming up to find a better way than passwords to protect, and prove, your identity online.… Read more…
Security Fix has often lamented the lack of decent point-and-click software tools to help Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser users kill insecure “ActiveX controls,” plug-ins for IE that have traditionally been among the biggest avenues of attack from spyware and adware. That’s why I’m pleased to call attention to a free new tool called “AxBan,” [...]
Over the past six months, millions of Web pages have been hacked and seeded with malicious software, and in a great many cases the sites were hacked because their curators failed to put in place even basic database security measures. In most of these compromises, the hackers broke in using an attack called SQL injection. [...]
Adobe has issued a security update for its Adobe Acrobat and free Adobe Reader applications. The patch plugs a critical flaw that Adobe said attackers could leverage to take control of a vulnerable system. The latest update, available here for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X systems, applies to the most recent versions of [...]