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66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Spammers seize on swine flu to pitch bogus meds Spammers have seized on the growing interest in news of a possible swine flu epidemic to hawk fake pharmaceuticals, security experts warned Monday. Is the Internet Ready for a Pandemic? As the dreaded word "pandemic" tops this week's headlines about the swine flu virus spreading around the globe, many businesses are dusting off emergency plans for employees to work from home and schools are poised to send students home. If this turns out to be a full-fledged pandemic, not only will people fall ill, the Internet will too. Portrait of a Security-Savvy User The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. takes information security seriously. Cloud computing security: Who knew? Cloud computing is big even though there is less than perfect agreement on just what it is. As a measure of success, Google gets more than 25 million hits for the term "cloud computing". If you add "security" to the search you still get 20 million hits, but a lot of the hits turn out to be articles focusing on the security issues with cloud computing. eBay, Xerox fraudster welcomed to federal prison This guy was a one man Internet fraud machine. Not only did he sell cars on eBAy and AutoTrader.com that he didn’t actually own but then tried to defraud folks via a Xerox copier scam. But today the system caught up with him as a judge sentenced Derrick Swantz to a little over four years in a federal prison plus an addition three years of supervised parole on charges of mail and wire fraud. Ex-federal IT worker charged in alleged ID theft scam A former IT analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and his brother were arrested Friday on charges that they took out loans using stolen information, including sensitive information belonging to federal employees at the bank. Seven burning security questions There's no shortage of burning questions about IT security these days, some sparked by nasty threats, others by economic concerns and some by growing use of social networking and cloud computing.
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