All the week's news and views about Security, 11/02/05
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IS ONLINE BANKING SECURE?
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) said the industry needs to adopt more than just single-factor authentication for online banking. The FFIEC says it considers single-factor authentication alone "to be inadequate...." Will online banking now require hardware tokens or biometrics? Click here for more.
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Vulnerable security algorithms raise concerns, 11/01/05
Industry experts agree that the future of two widely used security algorithms is fated, but with no clear alternatives in sight products that rely on them may have to remain "good enough" for some time.
Worm with rootkit hits AOL chat service, 11/01/05
Links leading to a worm that eventually implants a nasty rootkit on a user's computer are popping up on America Online's (AOL's) Instant Messenger network, security researchers are reporting.
Sourcefire may resurrect Check Point, 10/31/05
Sourcefire has products, but they're missing pieces - things that Check Point does very well. And Sourcefire can certainly benefit from the mature marketing, distribution, quality assurance and support infrastructure of an established company such as ...
The scary side of recycling hard drives, 10/31/05
I had been generally aware that far too many disks that government agencies, enterprises and individuals sell or trade in when upgrading their systems still contain valuable information, but I did not know the extent of the problem.
Spyware: Risky Business?, 10/31/05
The security industry has had a hard time even defining "spyware," much less stamping it out. All manner of annoying adware and malicious programs, such as keyloggers and botnets, are getting crammed into the single term "spyware." But a group called ...
Anti spyware in Vista, 10/31/05
If you are keeping score on what is in and what is out of Microsoft's Vista operating system (and for the record Microsoft says the feature list is not set) the newest addition in anti-spyware, the now standalone tool Microsoft got in its acquisition ...
Start-up takes aim at online prevention, 10/31/05
Business Signatures last week unveiled software aimed at helping financial institutions curb online fraud.
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