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IT security breaches soar in 2009
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| According to the study, IT security breaches â
| everything from viruses to intellectual property
| theft to abuse by employees â cost the average
| Canadian organization $834,149 in 2009, almost
| double the amount reported in last year's study.
| The average number of reported IT security
| breaches also soared to 11.3 per organization in
| 2009, compared to three per organization in 2008.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/it-security-breaches-soar-in-2009/article1305011/
Banking Trojan steals money from under your nose
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| The bank Trojan, dubbed URLZone, has features
| designed to thwart fraud detection systems which
| are triggered by unusual transactions, Yuval Ben-
| Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan, said
| in an interview Tuesday. For instance, the
| software is programmed to calculate on-the-fly
| how much money to steal from an account based on
| how much money is available.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10363836-245.html
Rivals mock Microsoft's free security software
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| Although one of the top consumer security vendors
| welcomed Microsoft's Security Essentials to the
| market, another dismissed the new free software
| as a "poor product" that will "never be up to
| snuff."
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138667/Rivals_mock_Microsoft_s_free_security_software
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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