Auditors advise a bank's CIO to add an "authorization warning" that will show up on all PCs before log-on, and this pilot fish is tasked to wh...

Continue Reading That’ll stop ‘em

IT Blogwatch, IT Blogwatch, egg, beans, and IT Blogwatch: in which a huge spammer loses his appeal against a nine year jail sentence. Not to men...

Continue Reading Spammer jailed, ‘cos spam ain’t free speech (and 207 stiffs)

GET IT Blogwatch: in which Russian bad guys might be selling the password to your FTP server. Not to mention a USB typing speedometer... USER Jaikumar Vij...

Continue Reading Pssst! Want some hot FTP logins? (and not just a good idea)

So says IBM in their recent 2007 X-Force Security report, released yesterday. I haven't done a year to year comparison of spam on any of...

Continue Reading Browser attacks up, spam down

I haven't seen a lot of detail about this yet, but fellow CW blogger Sue Walsh reports some additional information about the supposed Linux/Apache based exploit that may be infecting a surpris...

Continue Reading Under the radar Apache worm?

I don't want to get on too much of a kick writing about security related topics here, lest people think I am paranoid, but prompted by a...

Continue Reading Simple corporate sabotage

Yes, No, No ... Pilot fish gets an opportunity for a week of training, room and board paid for by the training company. All he needs is money...

Continue Reading Shark Tank: It’s all about communication

I don't think it rises quite to the level of sabre-rattling, but some of Chinese president Hu Jintao's recent pronouncements on Chin...

Continue Reading What infowar might mean to you

In the "More Unsurprising News" category we have today's article from Help Net Security detailing a recently released study which found that 3...

Continue Reading Breakin’ the law

At least if new developments in the TJX data breach case play out in favor of the plaintiffs. Several banks are suing the company, which p...

Continue Reading Security lapses might cost you more than your reputation