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Singapore pushes biometric uptake
News The island-state plans to introduce biometric passports - incorporating data of travellers' facial features and fingerprints - by October this year in a bid to remain on the United State's Visa Waiver Program. [31 Mar 2005]
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment Thompson's speech described the way in which it would have been possible for the creators of Unix - Thompson and Dennis Ritchie - to have modified the login program so as to allow them unconstrained access to every Unix machine - and incidentally... [27 Jan 2005]
Police warning over new key-logging 'Trojan' spam emails
News There is a second key-logger and a program that allows the machine to act as a mail proxy that could be used by spammers. In addition, the Trojan compromises the machine, giving the attacker full remote access, which allows them to control the... [13 Aug 2004]
DNS hack leaves corporate networks wide open
News At Defcon, Kaminsky showed off server software that acts as a communications hub for covert messages and a program that can insert data into DNS requests. The security hack essentially uses data transferred by domain name service (DNS) servers to... [02 Aug 2004]
Renegade program stealing passwords at banking sites
News Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect log-in data, the Trojan horse program can capture the information before it gets encrypted by the browser software. Working through the weekend, the security experts... [30 Jun 2004]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News A bot - also known as remote-access Trojan horse program, or RAT - seeks out and places itself on vulnerable PCs. The attack, which blocked nearly all access to Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! A common use of a bot network is to order a... [17 Jun 2004]
Blue Code: A Worm that Fights Code Red and IIS Servers
White Paper Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports the discovery of "Blue Code" - a new malicious program, which attacks remote Web servers operating on Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) platform. [10 Apr 2004]
Kaspersky Labs Warns Not to Use the Internet or E-Mail without the [NIMDA] Patch (Kaspersky)
White Paper We have received more than 500 reports from around the world regarding incidents of infection in connection with this malicious program. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports that on September 18th, an outbreak... [10 Apr 2004]
HIPAA Challenges for Information Security: Are You Prepared?
White Paper Therefore, information security is of paramount importance to the future of any health care program. Increasingly sophisticated technology presents opportunities in advancing integrated healthcare, improving access and quality of care, and reducing... [02 Mar 2004]
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
White Paper The Data Encryption Standard is being made available for use by Federal agencies within the context of a total security program consisting of physical security procedures, good information management practices, and computer system/network access... [25 Feb 2004]
ISS X-Force White Paper: Back Orifice 2000 Backdoor Program
White Paper Back Orifice is a backdoor program designed for misuse and attack. Unlike a virus, BO2K is not self-replicating and must trick users into installing the program. Once installed, Back Orifice 2000 gathers information, performs system commands... [25 Feb 2004]
IE "phishing" fix lockout causes more complaints
News The link gives the person access to a company's website when the authentication program verifies the username and password. I really look at it from the standpoint of the majority of customers," said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager at... [05 Feb 2004]
Bagle worm threat cools
News Bagle attempts to install the Mitglieder network proxy program, which allows intruders and spammers access to a victim's PC, in addition to trying to upload a password-stealing program. While security experts believe that Bagle was written from... [21 Jan 2004]
AOL to crack down on spyware
News Among other things, Tahiti lets beta testers dial in directly to the Net without launching AOL's content-heavy program and still gives them access to some of the bells and whistles of the premium service, such as animated instant-messaging icons... [03 Dec 2003]
Windows worm now spreading
News Nine days after the software giant announced the flaw, hackers from the Chinese X Focus security group publicly posted a program to several security lists designed to allow an intruder to break in to Windows computers. [12 Aug 2003]
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