Latest security news.
Nigerian scammers do a take-off on Three Kings, 05/08/07: A twist on the classic Nigerian e-mail scam that steals from the plot of the George Clooney movie Three Kings is hitting inboxes, Symantec said Monday. Click here for more.
IRS wants data on users from Internet firms, 05/08/07: The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the president’s 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com to collect personal data on their customers and share it with the Internal Revenue Service. Click here for more.
Microsoft invites hackers back for Blue Hat, 05/10/07: Microsoft is once again inviting members of the hacking community into its Redmond, Wash., campus to show the software giant where it’s gone wrong. Click here for more.
Avinti upgrade targets blended threats, 05/09/07: Avinti on Wednesday announced a new version of its e-mail security software designed to catch inbound messages with active content and embedded URLs that can expose recipients to Internet threats. Click here for more.
Cisco IOS FTP Server open to attacks: Cisco is warning of several holes in its IOS FTP Server feature that could lead to denial of service attacks, improper vertication of user credentials and the ability to retrieve or write any file from the device filesystem. Click here for more.
