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RSS lemos"Two-factor authentication won't stop ID theft"
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Plans to bolster online security with code-generating gadgets, fingerprint readers or smart cards are not likely to solve the identity fraud problems currently plaguing database companies and online stores, a... [16 Mar 2005]
Zombies are after your ID
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet... [15 Mar 2005]
"Presumed lost": 1m Bank of America customer records
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. A "small" number of backup tapes with records detailing the financial information of government employees were lost in shipment to a backup centre, Bank of America said on Friday. [28 Feb 2005]
Microsoft cuts off web-based activation
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Customers who find themselves reinstalling Windows XP should be ready for a headache: Microsoft will no longer support activating the product over the internet for PCs which have Windows pre-installed. [25 Feb 2005]
Gates: We'll give away anti-spyware software
News Robert Lemos and Dawn Kawamoto write for CNET News.com. The pledge, made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates during his keynote speech kicking off the RSA Conference 2005 in San Francisco, comes after the company had been testing its AntiSpyware... [16 Feb 2005]
Symantec plugs virus scanning flaw
News Symantec has issued a patch for a flaw in its scanning software that could cause a virus to execute, rather than catch it. The vulnerability affects an antivirus library used by the majority of Symantec's antivirus and anti-spam products, including... [10 Feb 2005]
Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof websites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned. [08 Feb 2005]
MySQL worm spread halted
News A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers. [31 Jan 2005]
Russians crack XP SP2 flaw
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2. The SP2 measure, known as Data Execution Protection, is intended to prevent would-be... [31 Jan 2005]
Apple patches up OS X
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Apple released a software patch on Tuesday to fix seven vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X operating system. The fix repairs flaws in the Safari browser, the Mail program and the ColorSync utility as well as four... [26 Jan 2005]
Office has "kindergarten crypto mistake"
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned. [21 Jan 2005]
eBay puts final stamp in Microsoft Passport
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Online auctioneer eBay officially has notified customers that it will no longer allow them to log on through Microsoft's identity management service, Passport. As previously reported, the move is the latest... [20 Jan 2005]
T-Mobile hacker gets celeb snaps and Social Security numbers
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com Wireless carrier T-Mobile acknowledges that an online attacker gained access to its network but denies reports that the criminal had the run of its network or broadly threatened its customers' privacy. [13 Jan 2005]
Security policy to merge virtual with reality
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. Companies will increasingly integrate physical and computer security systems in 2005, spending over $1bn in the United States and Europe, Forrester Research concluded in a report published this week. [13 Jan 2005]
Google fixes Gmail flaw
News Robert Lemos writes for CNET News.com. A problem with Google's email service, Gmail, let any user query the company's servers for information on the last message sent, two programmers announced on Wednesday. [13 Jan 2005]
