Internet security leader, VeriSign, today re-launched its Personal Identity Portal (PIP). The free beta service is a single sign-on solution simplifying the sign-in process for Web users across multiple sites. It supports OpenID which VeriSign is a provider for as well as direct sign in sites. Users register for a PIP account (which generates an OpenID url) and create a one-click sign-in, install the one-click bookmark onto their browser, and go to the sign in page of any participating site and click the on-click bookmark to automatically sign in. Users are required to log into the PIP More»

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Web 2.0 is an extension of what email was to companies for conducting business. Companies need to embrace Web 2.0 technologies to remain competitive but also be aware of potential threats and compliance issues. This is the message of a report on the benefits and risks associated with Web 2.0 conducted by Alan Calder, CEO of IT Governance. The study also found that there are serious issues at the board level.  Most senior execs view Web 2.0 was a drain on bandwidth and storage, and do not get the issue of employees More»

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McAfee, a provider of online security tools, has completed a survey of dangerous websites and concluded that some domains are far more dangerous than others. The study noted that about 4% of all the sites surveyed were “dangerous”, though the Hong Kong .hk extensions were dangerous a whopping 19% of the time.
Of the total, some .07 (about one in 1400) websites installed malicious code automatically without any permission clicks, presumably unless your security software caught the offensive code.
McAfee ReportWall Street Journal report.
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Cyber Security sleuths Dan Kaminsky and Jason Larsen have found significant security vulnerabilities in some affiliations that large ISPs have with ad serving companies. The Washington Post reports on their recent findings:

ISPs like Earthlink, Qwest and Verizon have outsourced at least portions oftheir ad-serving technology to BareFruit, a London-based company thatspecializes in helping ISPs monetize wayward Web searches. The trouble is thatuntil late this week, BareFruit’s ad servers were vulnerable to what Kaminskycalled a “trivial to find and exploit” vulnerability that would make it simplefor fraudsters to trick users of those ISPs More»

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RatePoint, a startup providing online reputation management platforms for businesses has hit the jackpot with Verisign. RatePoint has got one of the most trusted brands on the internet to resell its product to Verisign’s 1,000,000 customers. RatePoint’s online reputation management and customer feedback platform will be offered as a value-added to customers who purchase VeriSign’s retail SSL certificate. VeriSign’s SSL customers which are mostly online businesses can use the service to rate their overall satisfaction with that business.
The combination of VeriSign SSL with RatePoint will provide VeriSign customers More»

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Haute Secure has created a way to protect your personal data from web-based malware. The software uses social networking to predict, warn, and protect users from hidden threats. The service provides three types of information about the URLs being searched for such as:

Community relevance: stats from sites like Digg and Delicious help filter results
Social safety rating: a voting tally from the overall Haute Secure user community
Malware warnings: if a URL is on the suspicious or banned lists

Malware writers often create entire sites to infect users. And many sites with web 2.0 using flash More»

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Pornographic images, videos and infectious malware began appearing on Google Groups pages this weekend. Websense security is reporting that spammers have penetrated Google Groups and have achieved a 20% success rate cracking Google’s Groups security system. Google Groups is a free, online discussion forum available to anyone with a Google Account. Google uses a Captcha challenge to prevent spammers from using automated methods to create and abuse new accounts.
We have identified approximately 270 Google Groups pages with this porn. These pages push other porn pages More»

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