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    Phishers and spammers are 'jumping on the bandwagon' following the MasterCard security breach.

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    A 20-year-old college student suspected of hacking into one of US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's email accounts was indicted Tuesday in the US, a district court announced.

  • FBI searches apartment over Palin hack

    US federal authorities are ramping up an investigation of a 20-year-old college student for allegedly hacking into US vice-presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin's email account.

  • Best Western details hotel hack

    The Best Western hotel chain has given details of a hack involving one of its hotels, but downplayed reports that eight million customers have been affected.

  • Mitnick cleared after customs scare

    Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago.

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  • Is a digital doomsday around the corner?

    With hackers developing new methods of targeting us as quickly as we come up with defences, just how fragile is our wired economy?

  • Security: Companies asleep at the wheel?

    IT observer Jon Oltsik says corporate network defenses protect against the wrong enemy. Additional reading: Microsoft's bounty hunter

  • VeriSign says online fraud growing fast

    A report released Monday by VeriSign, the company that maintains the Internet's .com and .net domain registry, indicates that attempted site hacks, online fraud and identity theft are growing rapidly, as e-commerce proliferates.

  • Who's really responsible for hacker attacks

    A new book postulates that it's human error--not hardware or software glitches--that leaves networks vulnerable to attack.

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    Intersite data sharing and transactions represent the next major advance in Web functionality. See how SAML can help you improve functionality and security in B2B Web site collaboration.

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