With a likely upsurge in regulations requiring corporations to divulge whether sensitive customer data has been illegally accessed, Canadian companies will have to pay increasing attention to the prevention of phishing scams directed at their employees.

HP moves network scanning software into beta

Robert McMillan - August 18, 2004

Hewlett-Packard Co. has moved its Active Counter Measures network security software into beta tests with a select group of European and North American customers in hopes of readying the product for a 2005 release, an HP executive said at the HP World conference in Chicago Wednesday.

New security strategies needed: experts

Chris Conrath - August 18, 2004

Today's increasingly hostile IT environment is forcing companies to come up with new strategies to defend their data, according to participants at a security roundtable held in Toronto on Wednesday.

Researchers find holes in XP SP2

Paul Roberts - August 18, 2004

Security researchers inspecting a new update to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP found two software flaws that could allow virus writers and malicious hackers to sidestep new security features in the operating system.

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