5 IT Security Breakthroughs Promise to Thwart Threats

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• 5 IT Security Breakthroughs Promise to Thwart Threats
• The security threat Stephen King warned us about?
• FTC mails out refund checks for buyers of scareware

5 IT Security Breakthroughs Promise to Thwart Threats Posted: 12 Dec 2011 07:50 AM PST For the past 25 years, a war has waged between malicious programmers and the researchers trying to make computing safe for the enterprise. The battle has shown no signs of subsiding — once a new countermeasure is deployed, the hackers find new ways to make IT worried.

The security threat Stephen King warned us about? Posted: 12 Dec 2011 06:13 AM PST Remember the film "Maximum Overdrive," where machines took over and went on a murderous rampage? With cars and appliances ever more computerized, such a security threat seems a little less farfetched as we head into 2012.

FTC mails out refund checks for buyers of scareware Posted: 12 Dec 2011 05:09 AM PST The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun to mail refund checks to computer owners who purchased so-called scareware from vendors who allegedly used deceptive advertising to trick customers into buying the software to fix their supposedly infected computers.

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