For months, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schuble has been lobbying intensively for tough security measures to fight terrorism and cybercrime. Now he’s putting his words into action.
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Ounce Labs on Monday announced a new version of its software risk-analysis tool designed to help enterprises spot potential security weaknesses in applications.
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SanDisk on Monday announced a pair of USB flash drives designed to offer both security and access speed to business users.
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Looking to extend its RSA division’s authentication product line, EMC has purchased identity verification services vendor Verid.
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Microsoft research on Internet user profiling could lead to tools that help repressive regimes identify anonymous dissidents, the Reporters Without Borders advocacy group warned last Friday.
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Version 1.0 Author: Falko Timme Last edited 05/31/2007 The last few weeks have seen a dramatic increase in spam . via HowtoForge
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Participants at the Counter e-Crime Operations Summit called for measures to protect against botnets, including government funded computer clinics to treat infections, ingress filtering and even ‘Internet driver’s licenses’ for users.
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The Mozilla Foundation said last week it has patched several serious security flaws in the popular Firefox browser, bugs that also affect the SeaMonkey browser and the Thunderbird e-mail application.
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US lawmakers have introduced new laws designed to target botnets and spyware. The Cyber-Security Enhancement Act and the Internet Spyware Prevention Act (I-SPY) increase penalties for certain activities when they are used ‘in furtherance’ of a federal criminal offence.
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Oakley Networks on Monday announced an upgrade to its insider risk management offering that features a unified policy engine for protecting both the network and desktop PCs from data leaks.
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The European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (ANEC) held its General Assembly on 1 June 2007 in Brussels. For the first time, the group considered issues relating to RFID and […]
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Robert Alan Soloway, 27,was indicted this week by a US federal grand jury on 35 counts that include mail fraud, wire fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Accused of being one of […]
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“The FTC is investigating certain ValueClick websites which promise consumers a free gift of substantial value, and the manner in which the Company drives traffic to such websites, in particular through email”

ValueClick Inc., the last large, takeover target in the online advertising space on Wednesday named its US operations president Tom A. Vadnais as CEO. via Financial Times
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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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I’m watching my credit union account like a hawk. That’s because Priority One Credit Union — the one I use — had a security breach that was stunning.
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Just one day after a security researcher showed how Google’s Firefox toolbar could be exploited in an online attack, a similar flaw has been discovered in the Google Desktop.
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