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End-users should brace themselves for a new wave of phishing emails that reference the recipient's holiday credit card spending pattern during the Christmas season. U.K.-based encryption and key management provider nCipher announced today it acquired most of the intellectual property and assets of NeoScale Systems, an appliance-based enterprise storage security firm that recently ceased operations. Internet users still make irresponsible online purchasing decisions despite ongoing warnings about the dangers of responding to unsolicited emails, a new survey has found. Security vendors have warned of an increase in cybercrime during the holiday season. While it is unlikely we will ever abolish cybercrime, I do believe that we can make the internet a safer place. Antivirus product sales will slow in Australia in the next five years as enterprises broaden their use of security technologies. Martin Atherton explains why a mismatch between information management capabilities and needs offers a golden opportunity. Opting to use a PIN number for credit card transactions over a signature won’t necessarily improve security nor minimise fraud rates, according to the PEN or PIN project manager.
Small firms without the luxury of a dedicated IT department most at risk. Credit and charge card fraud rates increased in 2007, as more dollars were lost to fraudulent overseas online merchants, according to the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA). Return on investment. How many times have you heard or used that phrase in your career? If the answer is never, it's a surprise, but not a total surprise. Measuring the return on investment on IT procurement has not always been the major driving factor – too often, technical specs and whizzy feature lists have clouded purchasing decisions. A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges he oversaw a collection of hundreds of thousands of zombie computers that he used to steal personal data and perpetrate identity theft. Worldwide spam volumes have surged by 50 percent in the first quarter of 2008 revealed security vendor Proofpoint today, who now predicts enterprises will see inbound spam more than double this year. Nearly two-thirds of US adult internet users now shop online, but most of them are very concerned about privacy and security when making online purchases, according to an annual survey released this week by the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future.
Chip and PIN credit cards are hitting Australian shores. Negar Salek, demystifies the emerging secure payment technology and its potential benefits. New England is again the epicenter of a major retail data breach, this time with the Hannaford Bros. grocery store chain on Monday disclosing that hackers stole 4.2 million debit and credit card numbers from its computer systems. DeviceWall has many applications for both portable device security and endpoint security and management. As far as portable security goes, DeviceWall includes both the ability to stop transfer of data based on security policy and to encrypt data that needs to be transmitted. Two leading market research firms have lowered their projections for the growth of spending on information technology, including IT security, in 2008 due to the weakening economy. Consumer peer-to-peer (p2p) internet applications are growing at a blistering pace. Evidence is everywhere: worldwide, users send more than 10 billion instant messages every day (J.D. Powers and Associates); Skype's 136 million users account for 7 percent of international long-distance traffic (Morgan Stanley); video file sharing may account for up to 60 percent of all internet traffic (CacheLogic). The holiday buying season is likely to generate a wave of phishing attacks in January 2008, according to seasonal data collected by security software vendor, SonicWall.