Tuesday - December 30, 2008
An international group of independent security researchers announced Tuesday that they have found a significant weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure used by many Internet businesses. The flaw could conceivably allow cybercriminals to create fake certificates that would then be accepted and trusted by many widely used Internet browsers. The purported weakness could enable a hacker to impersonate secure Web sites and e-mail servers to launch virtually undetectable phishing attacks, according to the researchers from California, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
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Sunday - December 21, 2008
The current economic environment has consumers tightening their purse strings, carefully scrutinizing each dollar they spend. Scaling back on expenditures, including investments, they're not taking any chances with the money they do have. There is little trust in the economy or the future.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Given the financial fallout we've all been treated to this year, online banking and investment transactions may face increasing risks from hackers and sub-par network
security. Buying and selling via the Internet is the most common form of trading stock -- and the most vulnerable. With so much money changing hands through the Internet, bank security risk is critically high.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
A Countrywide mortgage employee working Sunday nights copied customer records from an office computer, then sold the personal information of an estimated 2 million mortgage applicants. A group of hackers "wardriving" managed to capture credit card numbers, passwords and account information for more than 40 million customers. Before 2004, consumers rarely heard about these kinds of thefts.
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Saturday - December 13, 2008
Identity theft has had a crippling effect on more than 9 million Americans, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and businesses that collect or hold identifying information report millions of dollars in annual losses as a result of these crimes. New identity theft regulations for creditors come into effect on May 1, 2009.
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Thursday - December 11, 2008
For immigrants who send money to their home countries, wire-transfer shops are backbones of their neighborhoods. On some blocks in San Francisco's Mission District, every third or fourth business might offer some sort of money transfer service, and they're always bustling, even on a Sunday morning.
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Saturday - December 6, 2008
The holiday season has come to signify not only a time of celebration among family and friends -- it's also usually a period of joy for retailers. This year, however, the lagging economy threatens to dampen everyone's holiday spirit, and retailers who depend on a large holiday season sales boost should prepare for a much smaller increase.
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Sunday - November 30, 2008
Today we have the advantage of staying connected wherever we are, which gives us the convenience of completing our holiday shopping from home or our working space at any time of day. This convenience, however, comes with a price, which can sometimes present itself literally.
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Tuesday - November 25, 2008
A former TV newsman in Philadelphia who said he felt threatened by his co-anchor's "rising star" was sentenced Monday to six months of house arrest after hacking into her e-mail and leaking gossip that contributed to her downfall. Larry Mendte, 51, admitted hacking into KYW-TV co-anchor Alycia Lane's e-mail hundreds of times, both before and after the city's CBS affiliate fired her in January.
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Friday - November 14, 2008
Now you can get your fix of "Bulletproof Monk" and "American Gladiators" -- all without leaving the comfort of YouTube. Yes, the king of user-generated, short-form video is now embracing the other kind: studio-generated, feature-length films. Yes, this is the same YouTube that said long-form video was anathema to its business model. But I guess when the big MGM lion comes roaring, you make an exception.
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