Latest security news.
Will users ever smarten up about phishing?, 09/14/07: Phishing researchers will congregate at Carnegie Mellon University Oct. 4-5 to debate whether users ever will get a clue about the dangers of phishing, among other issues pertaining to online crime.
Group releases free iPhone unlock hack, 09/13/07: A hacker group released a free, open-source unlock for Apple.’s iPhone late Tuesday, just a day after a commercial company started selling something similar for as much as $99 through a network of online resellers.
Google calls for global online privacy standard, 09/14/07: Search giant Google will propose on Friday that governments and technology companies create a transnational privacy policy to address growing concerns over how personal data is handled across the Internet.
TJX data criminal gets five years in prison, 09/14/07: The leader of an identity theft ring that stole credit card numbers from TJX has been sentenced to five years in prison and fined $600,000.
Year-old QuickTime bug gives hackers new drive-by attack, 09/13/07: A year-old bug in QuickTime that, when paired with Firefox allows, hackers to hijack PCs and Macs now has Mozilla scrambling for a fix, the company’s chief security officer said Wednesday.
Free book chapter: Take a sneak peek of Chapter 5: Firewall Load Balancing from Designing Content Switching Solutions by Haroon Khan and Zeeshan Naseh, and published by Cisco Press.
