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How to handle ID fraud's youngest victimsNovember 21

Sometime on October 14, a wide array of furniture and electronics were stolen from a commercial storage facility outside Phoenix. The building was used by the Arizona Early Intervention Program, which helps families of disabled children.

Two weeks ago, the state informed the parents of the nearly 40,000 children

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Is white listing going mainstream?November 20

White lists will be on every desktop within the next five years, according to Patrick Morley, CEO of Massachusetts-based Bit9. Morley was in town to address the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase in Redwood City, Calif., on Tuesday. He stopped by CNET News afterward ...

How Live OneCare changed the antivirus landscapeNovember 19

Since its introduction in 2006, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare has altered the antivirus landscape. With Tuesday's announcement that Microsoft will no longer be selling the product in retail outlets but offering a new free version, code-named Morro, starting in the second half of 2009, it's sure to ...

Express Scripts clients threatened with extortionNovember 12

One week after a breached corporate health care company refused to pay extortionists, the criminals now are seeking money from the corporate clients whose employee data might have been exposed.

St. Louis-based Express Scripts said on Tuesday that a limited number of its clients--which include government agencies, unions, and employers--have ...

Originally posted at News - Security

Study: DDoS attacks threaten ISP infrastructureNovember 11

Arbor Networks found that DDoS attack size (in gigabits) nearly doubled in 2008 from the previous year.

(Credit: Arbor Networks)

Internet service providers now spend most of their IT security resources detecting and mitigating distributed denial-of-service attacks, concludes a report from Arbor Networks.

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Originally posted at News - Security