ChoicePoint agreed to bolster security and conduct periodic audits in a settlement with 43 states and the District of Columbia stemming from a 2005 data breach in which the personal records of 163,000 consumers were compromised, various news outlets reported today.
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First of all, there is something that I meant to discuss a few weeks ago that surprisingly has not got much coverage. Art Medlar, a fellow inhabitant of a mail list I subscribe to explained that he is a client of TD Ameritrade, and being a cautious kind of guy he used unique primary and alternate e-mail aliases for his account.
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Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google Inc.’s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
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If you get an e-mail telling you that you’re under investigation by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, take a breath before calling your lawyer. It’s a scam.
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When a recent hacking contest won security researcher Dino Dai Zovi a $10,000 award for breaking into a MacBook Pro computer by exploiting a flaw hed discovered, the contest reignited a long-simmering debate over responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities.
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A look at some fresh ways to make sure the right people are gaining entry to a Web site.
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“Look for egress traffic to 203.121.79.49:54321 to identify infected computers on a network”

With malicious hackers actively targeting executives of global companies with a Trojan embedded in an RTF document attached to a fake IRS e-mail, security experts are urging caution. via NewsFactor Network
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Data broker ChoicePoint Inc. will pay US$500,000 and has agreed to change the way it screens new customers under a multistate settlement for a 2004 data breach.
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Google is expanding seemingly by the minute, and acquisitions are playing a big role in the search engine leaders quest to rule the technology world. Wednesday Google said it will buy a photo-sharing Web site called Panoramio and confirmed the acquisition of security software vendor GreenBorder Technologies. There are rumors Google will also purchase a provider of online RSS feeds called Feedburner for $100 million.
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Software development and software engineering go hand in hand when it comes to the implementation of software. Software development deals more with the creation of the software and when this is complete, software engineering takes over with the creation of software systems. Both of these disciplines are at times interchangeable and without much difference to […]
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There are many employers and institutions of learning that are using software testing computer applications to administer quizzes, exams and tests of all sorts. Software testing allows for test administrators to create and grade tests and exams in the most efficient ways possible, as well as provide a system for tracking grading curves recording and […]
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Microsoft has released a patch for the critical WMF (windows media format) security vulnerability. It is imperative that Windows users visit the Microsoft website, download and install the patch.The problem affects all operating system versions since Windows 98. “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system,” Microsoft cautions.“In […]
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Who hasn’t heard about the internet? No one! Unless, of course, you have been living in a cave for the past decade! The internet is the crowning achievement of the Information Age (which is what we call this age we live in). It has completely revolutionized how we communicate and how we live.But what exactly […]
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Computers are expensive devices that are changing every day. Computer specialists are working very hard to come up with new computer programs all the time. This means that you need to keep on top of things as well. Sometimes computer’s break down and need to be fixed. If you are not familiar with computers then […]
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There is so much information that every business needs to have on hand so that they can run successfully. To accumulate and keep track of all this information it’s many times easier to use software and other tools to help with this information management. There are many types of software that you can choose from […]
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Java is a highly portable computer programming language. “Portable” is a term used to describe programs that can be run in many different computing environments and on many different “platforms” (MS Windows, Apple’s Mac OS, Solaris, and Linux are all examples of “platforms”)It is Java’s portability that makes it such an intriguing technology. To give […]
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Visual Basic is a high level programming language that has evolved from the DOS based programming language called BASIC (Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). It is a very easy programming language to learn and use and the code is very similar to the English language. It is a programming language that is composed of […]
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