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Updated: 02/28/11 @ 11:58AM EST - A statement from the London Stock Exchange to SecurityWeek notes that the ads in question came from Unanimis, a UK ad network owned by Orange France Telecom Group. A representative from the London Stock Exchange said that the the Exchange's website wasn't impacted, but as a client of Unanimis it was flagged for malware alerts by Google. As a precaution, they have removed Unanimis-supplied advertisements. Unanimis claims a 73% reach in to the UK...

According to the joint FBI/National White Collar Crime Center’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) just-released 2010 Internet Crime Report, non-delivery of payment or merchandise, scams impersonating the FBI, and identity theft were the top three most common complaints received in 2010. The report also includes a state-by-state breakdown of complaints.

Corporate use of telecommuters is on the rise. Office space is expensive. Some companies use telecommuting as a way of reducing office space, while others like the fact that a telecommuting workforce gives them more geographic flexibility when hiring. If you can reasonably manage one person in Cleveland, who is the perfect skill match for the job, why try to hire a more expensive, less skilled person Chicago headquarters? Some companies work with telecommuters for the simple reason that employees...

Following reports earlier this week of multiple variants of Hong Tou Tou, two additional spyware programs targeting Android devices have been reported by NetQin Mobile this week.

Dmitry M. Naskovets of Belarus, creator and operator of CallService.biz, an online business that assisted over 2,000 identity thieves in over 5,000 instances of fraud—pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire and credit card fraud. Through Callservice.biz, Naskovets helped fellow online thieves use stolen information by providing English language calling services to trick banks in the United States. Naskovets was arrested in the Czech Republic in April 2010 as part of a multinational law enforcement operation.

In federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, 26-year-old Jeremey Parker, of Houston, Texas pleaded guilty to hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and NASA.

After Your Secure SSL Session Ends, Merchants can Theoretically Keep your Entire Customer Profile in Clear Text. Attackers love to Exploit Vulnerabilities in Online Stores to Steal that Data.

DKIM Verification Best Practices - Bringing Trust Back to Email

Juniper's $100 Million Investment in QFabric Architecture Results in Breakthrough Scale, Speed, Savings and Simplicity, Laying Foundation for Datacenters for the Next Decade.

Popular digital faxing service eFax, from j2 Global Communications, today announced significant enhancements to its service that bring increased functionality, including digitized signatures, enhanced security, increased storage capacity.New Security Enhancements to eFax include: • Digitized signatures: Ability to Drag, drop, and fax or email signed documents.

According to a recent advisory, a new variant of spyware "Spy.Felxispy" targeting Symbian devices has recently been identified by the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre of China. According to NetQin, more than a dozen variants of the spyware have emerged since the first was spotted, and the latest has affected 150,000+ devices. Note that Spy.Felxispy is NOT new malware, these are variants of it. The malware is also sometimes know as “Trojan-Spy:SymbOS/Flexispy.A” as identified by security firm F-Secure and...

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) and US-CERT have issued a high severity vulnerability warning, discovered by Neustar, which affects BIND, the most widely used DNS software on the Internet. Successful exploitation could enable attacker to cause Bind servers to stop processing all requests.

Global Survey Shows Organizations Struggle to Identify Security Threats and Pass Regulatory Audits

New mobile malware targeting Android devices has been spotted in China, mobile security company NetQin warned today. Dubbed "Hong Tou Tou", NetQin is currently tracking two variants including "BD.HongTouTou.A”, which was discovered on February 18th, and “BD.HongTouTou.B”, which it discovered today.

Is HIPAA Hypocritical?-- As Health care Goes Digital Are Your Medical Files Safe? Yesterday, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions released a report identifying the risks associated with privacy and security breaches in health care, as well as ways to minimize them.

Novell today announced Novell® Sentinel™ Healthcare Solution Pack, a solution to help healthcare organizations manage overlapping and cumbersome compliance requirements related to security monitoring.

US Digital Transactions Corporation (USDT) announced availability of a solution designed to help combat the growing problem of “friendly fraud,” the term used for when a consumer purchases an item, receives it, and without valid reason refuses acceptance of the charge for the transaction by initiating a chargeback with their bank/card issuer.

Vienna, Virginia based C² Technologies announced that it has developed and delivered an iPhone Application to help train U.S. Army Patriot Missile crews. The Patriot Missile Defense System helps defend against advanced threats, including aircraft, missiles and UAVs by shooting them out of the sky.

Several mobile operators around the world have voiced their commitment to implementing Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, and intend to launch commercial NFC services in select markets by 2012.

Dell announced this morning that it is delivering new cloud-based services to simplify secure information access and sharing for physicians and hospitals and improve healthcare efficiency from the point of care to the data center and business office. The service offerings are designed for hospitals and physician practices that want to focus less on managing information and more on using it to improve patient care and to maximize reimbursements.