information security

Technology providers offer airlines access to advanced online fraud prevention

CHICAGO, IL – Feb. 10, 2009 – Accertify, a provider of fraud prevention solutions to airlines and other online merchants, announced today that the company has completed an integration of its Interceptas® platform with SabreSonic® Web, which provides advanced customer management tools to help airlines market more efficiently, increase sales, and effectively manage every channel of distribution.

Service Gives Users New Tools to Control Their Information

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- December 9, 2009 -- Facebook announced today that it is calling on its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings.

In addition, Facebook will be rolling out easy-to-use tools to empower people to personalize control over their information—based on what the content is, why they are sharing it, when, and the audience they seek to reach.

Collaboration with five leading Internet safety organizations from North America and Europe will begin by building new online library of materials for educators, parents and teens

PALO ALTO, Calif. – December 6, 2009 — As the latest step in its commitment to improve safety on Facebook and across the Web, today the company announced the formation of the Facebook Safety Advisory Board, a group of five leading Internet safety organizations from North America and Europe that will serve in a consultative capacity to the company on issues related to online safety.

Users lulled into false sense of security while exposed to greater information and identity risks

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – October 19, 2009 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the findings of its Report on Rogue Security Software. The study’s findings, based on data obtained during the 12-month period of July 2008 to June 2009, reveal that cybercriminals are employing increasingly persuasive online scare tactics to convince users to purchase rogue security software.

28 September 2009 -- The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to gTLDs. The GNSO Council is now exploring several extensive studies of WHOIS and has asked ICANN to estimate the cost and feasibility of conducting several studies proposed by members of the ICANN community and ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee.

Releases “Data Security Best Practices” for Advertisers and Publishers

LAS VEGAS, NV (September 24, 2009) — As consumers are sharing ever more details about themselves to obtain personalized information, products and services, it is critical that industries working with consumer data maintain the highest standards of security for the storage of that information.

New service provides continuous monitoring and emergency response for your Web site

DUBLIN, IRELAND – 15 September 2009- Today Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced the availability of SiteCertain, a new add-on feature to its Managed DNS Services. SiteCertain enables Afilias Managed DNS customers to add web server monitoring, content monitoring and IP address fail-over to their Managed DNS account, to ensure the reliability and uptime of their Web sites.

Entire Line of VeriSign SSL Solutions, Including EV SSL and GeoTrust SSL, Now Available to Thousands of SoftLayer Customers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, August 17, 2009 -- A new security partnership between SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of global, on-demand data center and hosting services, and VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, will bring the entire line of VeriSign® Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificates to thousands of SoftLayer customers.

Analysts to discuss IT security trends at Gartner Information Security Summit in Sydney, 15-16 September 2009

Sydney, Australia, August 13, 2009 -- The Asia Pacific security market grew at a solid rate of 28.3 percent in 2008, down from 36 percent in 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT). Despite a slower growth rate, the results show that the security market did not suffer a significant impact from the economic downturn. In Australia, the security software market showed above-average growth of 27.5 percent to reach revenues of A$248.6 million (US$207.2 million).

Microsoft's Director of Financial Integrity has spent 30 years fighting identity theft

REDMOND, WA, June 29, 2009 -- In 1986, the U.S. Senate got in touch with Martin Biegelman. As an expert on identity theft, Biegelman’s testimony was of interest to The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which had invited the then U.S. postal inspector to its first hearings on what was being dubbed “the crime of the ’80s.”