A hacker used keylogger technology to steal the passwords of Carson, Nev. Treasurer Karen Avila, then wired nearly $450,000 to North Carolina and Michigan in the next two days.
For the second time this year, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is at the center of spam campaign. The spoofed emails, claiming to be about complaints made to the BBB by unhappy customers, attempt to entice recipients into downloading malware that can collect personal information from unwary consumers.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has passed new interpretive guidelines that relax portions of Section 404 of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Bank of America, Microsoft and Wal-Mart Stores are three of 14 organizations that will make up the newly formed PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) Board of Advisors.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), whose domain-identification technology prevents fraudulent junk emails from reaching users' inboxes.
Amid an avalanche of federal data breaches, agencies have been ordered to eliminate the unnecessary collection of personal information, including Social Security numbers.
The Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2007 was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives this week, but the bill still faces a significant test in the prospect of Senate affirmation.
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