Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Internet Explorer's getting a little bit safer. Microsoft Wednesday unveiled significant new security features that will be in the next version of the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, currently in public beta testing.From Microsoft's standpoint, any improvement in security is a plus, and the company seems to be taking ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008 A couple of minutes ago an interesting attempt to phish for Google account credentials made it to my inbox. It had me blink my eyes because while I suspected phishing there were some things with this one that had me check twice to see how it’s done, as things looked ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 From Web sites related to online banking, credit unions, financial departments, and social networking sites, phishers are chucking their rods into relatively new territory: video streaming sites.Trend Micro Content Security team learned about this latest (and very interesting) phishing technique a few days back. Several phishing domains (see Figure 1) ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008 In recent months, Web site compromises have become the most prevalent problem that threatens Internet users from all over. While this trend continues to dominate today’s security issues, let’s not forget about other threats that, although may be not as massive as these attacks, have equally serious ramifications against the ...
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