Podcast: Top security threats for 2008 We kick off our Prediction Week of podcasts (one new podcast every day this week) with predictions on the top cybersecurity threats for 2008 from Mike Paquette at Top Layer Networks. Learn about the increase in targeted attacks, the growth of browser-based exploits and threats to mobile devices (15:17). After criticism, Sears plugs Web site's privacy hole, 01/04/08 Sears Holdings has taken part of its Managemyhome.com Web site offline following revelations that the site was making customers' purchasing ... Firefox hit with spoofing bug, 01/03/08 A serious flaw in how Firefox handles logons could be used by identity thieves to dupe users into disclosing passwords, a noted security researcher said Wednesday. U.S. indicts 11 over pump-and-dump stock spam, 01/04/08 Eleven people, including one of the top spammers in the world, were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending millions of unsolicited e-mails intended to inflate the price of Chinese penny stocks. Bad NAC, 12/20/07 Vendors’ failure to rally around a NAC standard rates as one of the worst moves of ’07. See what else made the list. Anti-botnet vendors plug in, 01/04/08 A small group of IT security startups are hoping to cash in on the rise of the botnet scourge as businesses -- telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, in particular -- seek new methods for stopping the attacks. QuickBooks can still delete data, Intuit warns, 01/03/08 Financial software maker Intuit warned Mac users that a bug that could cause its small business accounting to erase files from the desktop arbitrarily is still present, at least from some public hot spot locations, according to a posting on the company's support discussion forums. Microsoft security update cripples IE: Join this Hot Microsoft-related discussion now |
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