| Identity thieves beat Obama to stimulus package punch Although the U.S. government's economic stimulus package hasn't even gotten out of Congress, scammers aren't waiting; they've launched multiple campaigns that tempt users into revealing personal information, a security researcher warned Thursday. "Geeks" get tap on wrist for data security problems Electronics company Compgeeks.com got a light upbraiding from the Federal Trade Commission as it agreed to settle charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security to protect sensitive customer data. New App Lets Spammers Target Twitter Twitter may not being making any money yet, but that hasn't stopped spammers from trying to benefit from the micro-blogging service. In fact, a new software tool, called Tweet Tornado, has the unfortunate potential to be a real game changer. Launched last week, TT is designed to help spammers and malware distributors get the most out of their Twit-based offenses. Four security updates due from Microsoft next week Microsoft plans to patch critical flaws in its Internet Explorer and Microsoft Exchange Server software next week. Microsoft cites 'click fatigue' for Windows 7 security change Microsoft changed the default settings of one of its most important security features for Windows 7 because users balked at clicking more than two prompts a day, a company executive said Thursday. VoIP Security: The Basics With the continuing pressure to reduce fixed costs within business, enterprises and SMBs are looking at VoIP as an opportunity for cost savings. There is increasing data verifying that the use of IP as a common transport for data and voice will provide a foundation for existing services such as voice traffic, and be a vehicle for new applications in the future such as presence and video. EMC, Microsoft extend partnership on virtualization, security and content management EMC and Microsoft have extended a partnership that focuses on interoperability of products related to virtualization, security and content management. Porn site feud spawns new DNS attack A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Podcast: Cisco warns of WLAN flaws; IT security jobs relatively safe in this economy Cisco today issued a security alert warning of a quartet of vulnerabilities affecting all of its wireless LAN controllers; Information security jobs may not be the most glamorous ones in the technology industry. But at least they appear to be a lot more secure. (5:31) Privacy group calls Google Latitude a 'danger' to security A privacy group is calling Google's new mapping application an "unnecessary danger" to users' security and privacy. Tories ignoring open-source security risk The British Conservative Party was wrong to slate the U.K. Government for its approach to open source, and U.S. outfit Fortify Software has come up with research to prove it. The bottom line: open source is just too risky anyway. Pshaw on Microsoft's UAC A study from a third-party security vendor says that disabling admin rights is the sure-fire way to make Windows and IE 90% safer. Microsoft changes Windows 7 UAC due to new exploit code A pair of Windows bloggers posted more proof-of-concept code today that subverts an important security feature of Windows 7 , a problem Microsoft knew about as long ago as last October and which one of its software engineers said would be fixed in the beta. Confounded nonsense A study sponsored by Cisco and carried out by InsightExpress using responses from more than 2,000 respondents in 10 countries indicated that accidental and deliberate violations of security by insiders are a serious threat to data confidentiality. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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