According to the Microsoft Collaboration in High-Tech Manufacturing Survey 2007, manufacturing firms regularly use insecure forms of communication, which places their data at risk of theft The research, which was conducted by US-based KRC Research, found that 78 per cent of business ...

 

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Yahoo is upgrading Yahoo Mail with DomainKeys technology designed to block phishing spam and bogus emails purporting to come from eBay and PayPal. Phishing scams usually consist of emails which claim to be from trusted sources. They direct the recipient to a ...

 

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Blog spammers have exploited a vulnerability in the archive.org website, in order to redirect users to paid-for pharmaceuticals listings. The practice has unfortunately become increasingly common, with innocent websites being hacked or otherwise exploited in order to try and capture traffic from Google. The method ...

 

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According to a survey by Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, over 50 per cent of the UK's technology companies would support legislation requiring companies to notify customers of data breaches. The preliminary results of the survey ...

 

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A study by Panda Software, using an online malware measuring tool called Nanoscan, showed UK PCs as having the lowest level of malware infection in Europe. France had the highest percentage of PCs with active malware, at 28.2 percent, followed ...

 

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Platinax has discovered that the NEC Group website has been hacked, with pages inserted onto the site to promote pharmaceuticals sales. A specific search on Google reveals a small number of pages added to the site, which offer to sell a variety of ...

 

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According to new research commissioned by Websense Inc, employees of small and medium sized businesses (SMB's) regularly visit high-risk sites in work time, but IT Managers are failing to implement adequate IT security measures. The research, which was carried out ...

 

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