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Article | 26/02/2008 E-scammers trashing reputations

Phishers, cyber-squatters, and other online fraudsters continued their assault on well-known corporate brands over the last 12 months, increasing the ...

Article | 12/02/2008 Mapping out Web apps attacks

Attackers continue to use well-worn techniques, such as SQL injection, to exploit holes in popular Web applications but have also moved on to other ta...

Article | 18/12/2007 Google revs up security play

Far from being a major player in IT security today, Google has ambitious designs on becoming a big name in the burgeoning hosted security market, begg...

Article | 7/11/2007 Google's Android boosts enterprise mobile Linux

Google's introduction of its Android device operating system and Open Handset Alliance on Monday could help create just the breed of mobile Linux plat...

Article | 23/10/2007 Experts say issue of click fraud not improving

Companies like Google and Yahoo that control major online advertising networks have not met their pledge to aggressively ferret-out click fraud among ...

Article | 15/10/2007 Symantec to buy DLP specialist Vontu

Security software giant Symantec is preparing to announce an acquisition of Vontu, one the largest remaining independent providers of data leakage pre...

Article | 12/10/2007 Mobile systems management maturing fast

One of the most frustrating aspects of being an IT professional who is required to be on call to respond to emerging support issues has long been the ...

Article | 27/09/2007 Tech giants chart research goals

Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development inves...

Article | 21/09/2007 Paypal claims gains against phishers

Paypal security chief Michael Barrett isn't ready to claim a victory in the fight against phishing schemes, but he said that his company is slowly tur...