John E. Dunn

Internet fraudsters have had another good year, according to the U.K.

Intel researchers have demonstrated a new hardware system designed to rapidly and automatically quarantine PCs infected with worms of viruses. Announced at this week

A flaw has been discovered on eBay

The man who almost single-handedly invented desktop encryption, Phil Zimmermann, is to announce a new telephony-oriented encryption venture at this week

MasterCard has shut down 1,400 phishing sites websites in the last eleven months alone, the company has revealed at its annual Global Risk Management Symposium. The figures were drawn from its "Operation STOP IT (Identity Theft)" initiative, which MasterCard set up in June of last year in response to the massive rise in identity crime. The scheme has also seen the company close over 750 sites that were purporting to sell illegally-held credit card information, and stopped a claimed 35,000 MasterCard account numbers from being used by scammers

The latest figures from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) offer cold comfort for anyone concerned about phishing. Although the number of attacks seems to have reached a plateau, phishing e-mails appear to be getting more sophisticated.

A dangerous spoofing security hole has been found in every browser on the market

Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Netscape all suffer from the "moderately critical" vulnerability that allows the spoofing of address bar URLs and SSL certificates, but, incredibly Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer gets a clean bill of health.