ChoicePoint details data breach lessons; Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day

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Jun 12, 20072 mins

Latest security news.

ChoicePoint details data breach lessons, 06/11/07:  Few companies know as well as ChoicePoint the consequences of failing to secure the personal information of consumers.

Safari for Windows: Released and hacked in a day, 06/11/07:  Apple is becoming a favorite target of security researchers these days. In April, there was the $10,000 CanSecWest hack a Mac contest, and on Monday there was the Safari Web browser. Or the public beta of Safari for Windows, anyway.

AOL spammer pleads guilty, 06/12/07:  Adam Vitale pled guilty Monday to sending unsolicited e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Michael J. Garcia said.

McAfee announces upgrade to ePO management console, 06/11/07:  McAfee on Monday announced it will deliver an updated version of ePolicy Orchestrator, its umbrella management console for McAfee security products, by the third quarter of this year.

Hackers access personal info on varsity faculty members, 06/11/07:  About 6,000 current and former University of Virginia (UVa) faculty members are being notified that their names, Social Security numbers and birth dates may have been stolen by computer hackers between May 2005 and April 19 of this year.

Citrix buys Caymas NAC assets, 06/11/07:  Citrix is buying the assets of NAC vendor Caymas Systems, which is out of business and whose products have some overlap with the Citrix’s SSL VPN products.