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12/18/2008 | SC Magazine
Survey: Collaboration applications inadequately secured
12/8/2008 | Source of Title
FNRES Gains Improved Security, Fraud Alerts Via Product Integration
11/13/2008 | Dark Reading
Widespread Account-Sharing Threatens Corporate Security, Revenues Many users break security defenses by simply handing over their credentials to colleagues, friends, experts say
11/4/2008 | E-Commerce Times
The Enterprise E-Mail Data Sieve A network's e-mail system can be a wide-open gateway for data leakage. Whether it involves a disgruntled employee sharing secrets with a rival or a rather clueless one doing some unwise clicking on spam messages, data leakage via e-mail is something IT executives are largely concerned about, though budgetary constraints sometimes hamper efforts to deter it.
10/1/2008 | Certification Magazine
Online Degrees: Friend or Foe? Going online has never been easier. And now, neither has getting certified. Many reputable institutions across the country offer online-only courses, meaning students can enroll and earn certificates from the comfort of their own homes, libraries or local test centers.
But with the great opportunities the Internet provides also comes anonymity — and ambiguity. After all, if students never even step foot on campus, how do schools know that they are who they say they are? How does the school know if the student’s work is legitimate, and how do the students know the institution’s degrees carry weight?
9/24/2008 | E-Commerce Times
The New Biology of Biometrics The field of biometric security is moving beyond mere fingerprint readers and producing more sophisticated devices that are more difficult to dupe. Providers are moving with hardware that senses bloodflow beneath a handprint and software tools that analyze not only the password a user types in, but also how he or she typed it.
9/18/2008 | E-Commerce Times
What Palin's Hacked E-Mail Reveals: System Insecurity VP candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail has been cracked open and some of its contents published on the Web. Her private Web mail account was likely a clear target for hackers because of her high profile, not to mention allegations that she used private e-mail for official business as governor of Alaska. However, security should be a priority for all e-mail users, famous or otherwise.
9/16/2008 | Society for Human Resource Management
HR Must Get Employees To Care About Internet Flaw Subscription Required
9/4/2008 | VentureBeat
AdmitOne Security uses keystroke identification to screen users Identity thieves are everywhere. A teenager snatched the login of his real-estate agent father and threw wild parties at homes that were up for sale. Students get someone else to take a test for them. Loan officers get hacked and the profiles of 7,000 of their customers are stolen.
9/1/2008 | Bank Technology News
Regulation: Think Feds Will Go Easy? Think Again The Nov. 1 compliance deadline is looming and many community bankers have yet to push their efforts into overdrive. In a recent survey conducted by research firm Gartner, 60 percent of respondents deemed themselves to be compliant, though more big banks were compliant than small. Sources say that 50-percent compliance for community banks seems accurate.
8/25/2008 | Human Resource Executive Online
Virtual Lockdown The story of an IT administrator who paralyzed San Francisco's computer system offers some lessons to employers on the importance of controls and dividing job responsibilities.
8/1/2008 | Credit Union Business Magazine
Biometrics Inside Out Security Biometric technology, once a source of skepticism in the credit union community, is now
gaining momentum amongst CUs. In an industry where security vulnerability often reaches a
zenith, biometrics are increasingly more attractive. See how credit unions across the nation
are leveraging this 21st century technology.
8/1/2008 | CNET
Keeping your identity safe online and offline Although identity theft overall has declined the past few years, the fact of the matter is everyone is at risk of having personal information stolen.
8/1/2008 | Security Management
Knowing the Customer's Type Companies typically have to choose between strengthening security and providing the user with easy access. There’s at least one increasingly popular example involving online authentication, however, which could be an exception.
7/30/2008 | Computerworld
Stop distance-learning cheaters Congress is well along in its revision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 with the College Opportunity and Affordability Act (HR 4137), which passed 354-58 in the House and is now in a Senate committee. As planned, the legislation gives the distance learning business a boost. It specifically calls for "developing and improving facilities for Internet and other distance learning technologies."
7/30/2008 | E-Commerce Times
Alien-Hunting UK Hacker Coming to America A UK hacker of modest abilities who allegedly broke into secure U.S. government computer systems in search of UFO conspiracy-theory evidence has lost his fight against extradition.
7/25/2008 | Processor Magazine
Tips On Sorting Out Biometric Choices To Find The Right Ones For Your SME If your small to midsized enterprise has decided to implement biometric products and technologies into the security mix, the next step is to begin purchasing. But that can feel like a big leap, given the array of different products available, touting everything from physical access control to software lockdown measures. Here are some tips on evaluating products to keep a shopping spree from feeling too overwhelming.
7/14/2008 | CNET
Facing the pain of passwords Still, despite the consensus on the need for a new way to handle online authentication, not much has changed with passwords in more than a decade.
5/15/2008 | E-Commerce Times
MySpace's 230M Victory in Spam Case May Be Hollow MySpace won a court award of $230 million against a couple of notorious spammers, but it's probable that the social networking giant won't see a dime of it. Still, it raises the volume in the spam wars, alerting other e-commerce operations to the need to tighten their security -- and giving users another elbow in the ribs over careless clicking.
4/23/2008 | The 451 Group
BioPassword drops biometric baggage, changes name to AdmitOne (Subscription Only) Subscription Required
4/21/2008 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
BioPassword now AdmitOne The Issaquah company initially created a product that permitted or denied access to computer networks based on keypad typing patterns. The latest offering includes the keystroke technology as well as device signatures, one-time passwords and challenge-response questions.
4/21/2008 | Information Security
Keystroke recognition aids online authentication at credit union Organizations from regional institutions like First Tech to giants like Bank of America and Amazon.com have to balance cost, risk and security, as strong authentication is expensive and difficult to deploy and maintain when the user population is tens of thousands to millions of customers.
2/4/2008 | Campus Technology
Biometrics Revisited The college considered a number of alternatives including one-time tokens (which generate a temporary password that is only valid for a few moments) and fingerprint scanners, but after instituting a testing process that included mock intruders, administrators selected a keystroke dynamics solution...
1/14/2008 | NetworkWorld
Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008 Now, with new federal regulations, with tough industry standards bearing down and with identity fraud and phishing running rampant, simple user name and password doesn't cut it anymore.
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