This just in: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that ChoicePoint, Inc., which “acknowledged last year that the personal records of more than 163,000 consumers in its database had been compromised,” will pay substantial civil penalties. Deborah Platt Majoris, the Chairman of the FTC, stated in ...

More on Nyxem Published: 2006-01-23,Last Updated: 2006-01-23 22:13:35 UTC by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1) Although Nyxem is comparatively less spread then worms like Sober or Netsky, it’s still doing a fair number of rounds. The graph below is from one of the e-mail gateways with a decent ...

 What’s the threat? And who is noticing it? Nyxem_e versus CME 508 Published: 2006-01-22,Last Updated: 2006-01-22 20:00:45 UTC by Patrick Nolan (Version: 4(click to highlight changes)) CME 508 does not threaten like Nyxem_e, on February 3rd and every third day of the month ...

Click here to listen/download (9:52). In our inaugural podcast, you’ll hear the latest RSA Security headlines; a Q&A with the vice president and general manager of RSA Conferences, Sandra Toms LaPedis; and a monthly policy update with Speaking of Security blogger Shannon Kellogg, who reviews government data security regulations in 2005 ...

The cost of cyber-crime is up according to the 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey, estimating that U.S. organizations lose over $67 billion dollars a year. The FBI’s latest data, released on January 18th, is based on responses from over 2,000 public and private sector organizations in four U.S. States ...

The RSA Bloggers are putting together a list of the top blogs covering identity and data protection. Eventually (when our lazy blog programmer gets around to it…just kidding) we’ll post it as our first “blog roll”. This is new terminology to me as a still-relatively-fresh blogger, but the goal of ...

Continued from last week If there are too many form factors we will defeat the object of adding value and enabling web-based transactions and access. On the other hand, not enough, or too much (the application of the wrong form factors in the wrong combinations) will also add cost and ...

Last month, a patent entitled “Method and apparatus for selective blocking of radio frequency identification devices” (patent number 6,970,070) issued at the U.S. Patent Office. As the title suggests (in its vague and formal language), this patent covers the RSA Blocker Tag, an RFID privacy device invented at RSA Laboratories ...

A single identity or a single form factor is an impossible aspiration and will not solve the bigger problem of transaction, application and service enablement. We have moved from a debate as to what “The” definitive authentication mechanism will be (most popular candidates? Smart cards vs. biometrics) to a growing ...