Shipp said this first iteration of such a covert phishing technique will only affect users who have Windows Scripting Host enabled and certain ActiveX controls and he believes the majority of users with up to date patches, or the most recent...
For IP phones themselves, the company uses digital certificates to encrypt traffic and authenticate endpoints. To secure the network, Hancock puts access controllers in his infrastructure to separate voice traffic onto its own LAN and uses quality...
The full disk encryption feature is designed to work with a chip called the Trusted Platform Module, or TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption keys, passwords and digital certificates. Other security related updates include an enhanced...
In addition, Vista includes parental controls, and IE 7 has a filter to block phishing scams. For example, Internet Explorer 7 runs in a protected mode to prevent installation of malicious software through security holes.
Armstrong predicted a likely outcome of this week's revelations will be a rash of phishing scams, where fraudsters will try to trick bank details out of people already worried about the data breach. The data in question was password protected, but...
IE 8 Beta 1 has already introduced several changes when handling ActiveX components. In addition, you must acknowledge or opt-in for the component to run, eliminating drive-by downloads. The addition of malware protection to the existing anti...