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Report: Online Pedophilia up 300 Percent

Security vendor Panda Software Thursday announced a 300 percent increase in calls reporting online child pornography over the last three years.Protogeles, a European non-...

More Regulation For The Software Industry?

SAN FRANCISCO -- UPDATED:Richard Clarke, the former White House cyber security czar, urged the technology industry to adopt regulations or even benchmarks to improve securit...

Sobig’s Birthday — Tracking Most Damaging Virus Ever

A year to the day after the virulent Sobig virus hit the wild, spawning a family ofmalicious attacks that would span the next nine months, anti-virus experts are on dailywatch for the next vicious a...

Weakness Found in Wi-Fi Security Protocol

A wireless security expert has detected a glaring weakness in the interface design of a highly touted Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) protocol deployed in numerous Wireless LAN products.According to a...

Hatch: P2Ps Are Child Porno Central

In a twisted turn of unintended consequences, the enormous success of the Internet as a distribution vehicle for pornography has created competitive pressures among smut p...

Best Buy or Biggest Scam?

Electronics retailer Best Buy Thursday became the latest victim of a scam plaguing e-commerce sites. An e-mail ostensibly alerting readers to theft of their credit card numbers asked them to click o...

College Hacking Course Kindles Fiery Debate

A new college course is stirring up a firestorm of debate in the security community. The University of Calgary in Canada is opening registration next week on a course, slat...

Massive DDoS Attack Hit DNS Root Servers

A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unknown origin briefly interrupted Web traffic on nine of the 13 DNS "root" servers that control the Internet but experts on Wednesday dismis...

Top 10 Enterprise Security Risks

Network administrators are besieged today with a growing list of security risks, and analysts warn that too often they get caught up in battling one or two vulnerabilities a...

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