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RSS passwords logiPhones under attack from Rick Astley worm
News Security companies have warned owners of jailbroken iPhones to change root log-in passwords immediately. Some iPhones have come under attack from a worm that replaces the devices' default wallpaper with... [09 Nov 2009]
Bank Implements Comodo Two-Factor Authentication in Stages
White Paper The security of customer bank accounts depended on keeping passwords protected, but bank managers knew that customers don't always protect their passwords. With digital certificates on their computers,... [01 Oct 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News And offering Facebook users the chance to register and log in to external sites without separate usernames and passwords gives Facebook Connect's marketing a slant of user convenience - and security, as... [21 Sep 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News HM Revenue and Customs is warning taxpayers who file their tax self-assessments online to be especially wary of fraudsters after finding passwords for the service are being hijacked. According to HMRC, a "small number"... [06 Aug 2009]
GuardedID
White Paper A more powerful breed of spyware can log keystrokes (including passwords and credit card numbers) and send that information to criminals. Keyloggers are a serious security threat that can be extremely... [20 Jun 2009]
'Best video' scam takes Twitterers to malware
News The TwitterCut site looks like a Twitter log-in page and prompts people to type in their user names and passwords. Twitter users were hit with another attack over the weekend featuring tweets reading... [02 Jun 2009]
Secret Sequel: Keeping Your Password Away From the LOG
White Paper Passwords are things not to be shared. As good SAS programmers one doesn't hard-code the passwords in the programs, but keep them in separate files or macro variables. Unfortunately the casual (or... [29 May 2009]
Worms lure Facebook users to fake site two days running
News Facebook also goes in and resets the passwords of member accounts that had been used to distribute the spam, he said. Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday, its second day in a row of dealing with a worm on the... [01 May 2009]
As crunch bites: Don't neglect the logs
Comment P is for Passwords Managing log files may seem like a mundane issue but doing it well tightens data security and boosts compliance efforts, says Quocirca's Fran Howarth. By including log... [05 Feb 2009]
Telenet Centralizes Identity Authentication to Improve Security and Streamline Password Management
White Paper Telenet implemented a system for Single Sign-On (SSO) using Oracle Internet Directory as well as enabled users to log in only once - using their Windows passwords - for all Oracle applications. Telenet... [31 Jan 2009]
Stopping corporate IT break-ins
News P is for Passwords She said: "We have users all over the world using a number of different applications with different IDs and passwords. Shutting the door to IT systems after staff leave the business... [20 Jan 2009]
UK kids shopping online behind parents' backs
News Seventy per cent of the children interviewed said they know where their parents shop and 20 per cent claim to know their passwords and usernames at those sites. Twenty-nine per cent of under-16s in the city shop online... [14 Nov 2008]
Password fatigue spells biometric PC boom
News According to research by the retailer, 82 per cent of the 1,300 Comet customers surveyed had had enough of passwords and want a better way to log into their machines. According to Comet, the rise in... [15 Sep 2008]
Single Sign-On Deployment Guide
White Paper Solving this problem requires some way for a user to log in once, using a single password, and get authenticated access to all servers that user is authorized to use--without sending any passwords over... [02 Sep 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Roy Hills, technical director at NTA said in a statement: "A hacker could also gain entry to the corporate network and change users' passwords or delete files, which could wreak corporate havoc. Apache mod_ssl... [19 Jun 2008]
