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Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft

With shopping and banking transactions occurring primarily online today, password stealing has become a common cyber crime. Whatever the vector of attack, in many cases some sort of password-stealing malware makes its way onto victims’ computers. McAfee Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:50 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Tech giants team for online ID cards

A group of software and online payment companies are teaming up to find a better way than passwords to protect, and prove, your identity online. Problems with passwords are well known - people require ever more passwords which means they either get forgotten, Read More...
Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 8:43 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft calls for talks on Internet trust, safety

Microsoft today called for broad discussions about the safety of the Internet in an initiative it dubbed "End to End Trust" in a white paper released during the RSA Conference that opened today in San Francisco. In a keynote address at the security conference, Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:16 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Business biometrics raises ID theft risk

The commercial use of biometrics will become widespread in five years, but is not without security risks The growing use of biometrics by businesses to identify individuals is insecure and in need of serious attention, according to one IT systems company. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:13 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft buys U-Prove technology

Microsoft Corp. hopes to beef up online privacy with the acquisition of the U-Prove technology, the company announced on Thursday. U-Prove was developed by Stefan Brands at Credentica Inc. to allow Internet users to disclose only the minimum amount of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:13 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Identity management critical for security, government IT shops say

A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing their networks and will become even more so over the next five years, but that funding to keep pace is a major impediment to growth. The respondents also said Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:14 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
 
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