(ISC)2, or International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium, Inc., is a training and security body that administers the ever-popular CISSP certificate, the Holy Grail of security specialists. Recently (ISC)2 ran a web survey which was found to have leaked an estimated 20,000 particpants addresses, phone numbers, and emails.

Anonymous writes "Leading local IT service provider, Active Technology has launched a new cost effective product, which will help any business to eradicate almost all unwanted emails.

Starting at just over £2.00 per user, per month, the new email security package, known as e-Gateway, will intercept all unwanted emails before they reach the intended recipient. This means that companies will be far safer from the risk of viruses, time-wasting spam mailings and disturbing and illegal pornography.
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The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary

2004-05-20 - 2004-05-27




This week: 48 advisories

Blast writes Media Release - 2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey
Date: 24 May 2004


An increase in attacks by electronic viruses and other computer crime cost Australian private and public sector an average of 20 per cent more than last year, according to a new security report to be released this month.

The 2004 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey, which was launched at AusCERT2004, the Asia Pacific IT Security conference on 24 May, also reveals that more critical national information infrastructure (CNII), organisations reported experiencing harmful electronic attacks and the cost of attacks for these organisations was higher than compared to non-CNII organisations.

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The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary

2004-05-13
2004-05-20



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Malware activation techniques

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Madrid, May 14, 2004 - Today's Oxygen3 24h-365d will look at the most common
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