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Failing to make cyber security a priority is costly for small businesses and customers.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 24, 2007 -- This spring, the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) challenges small businesses to make cyber security a top priority. While the public is fixated on high-profile corporate and government database breaches, hackers and identity thieves are increasingly targeting millions of small businesses. According to a 2005 FBI Cyber Crime Study, 90 percent of small businesses had at least one cyber security incident within the past year. Not taking the correct cyber security precautions and approach makes small businesses’ computer networks easy targets. Hackers can easily steal from and use these networks as launching pads to attack others, send phishing emails, and even steal from home users.

Overall scores increased from previous year, U.S. Bank top rated for second year in a row.

Traverse City, MI (PRWEB) April 16, 2007 -- Privacy and information management research firm the Ponemon Institute announced the results of the 2007 Privacy Trust Study for Retail Banking, measuring consumer perceptions of trustworthiness for retail banking institutes. In its sixth year, the study examines how issues related to consumer privacy and data security, and the ways in which retail banking institutions address those issues, translate to consumer opinion.

Crematory Sued in a Scheme of Allegedly Stealing Body Parts from Corpses Without Consent from Next-Of-Kin

Biomedical Tissue Services, Ltd., together with a local crematory, have been sued for allegedly stealing body parts without consent of next-of-kin. Criminal investigations are underway and a Civil lawsuit has been filed by Anapol Schwartz on behalf of the bereaved family.

The new threats in image spam, and how to combat them.

Invasion of the Image Spammers! Free White Paper discusses new perils in Spam emails, and how to avoid them. Think your current Spam filter is doing a good enough job? Maybe you should think again. Spam message volumes have doubled over the past 12 months and are expected to triple in the near future, and end users are seeing twice as much uncaught spam in their inboxes (Source: Borderware Security Network).

PrivacyMatters.com Refreshes Leading Online Consumer Destination For Credit Reports, Credit Scores And Identity Theft Protection Services

PrivacyMatters.com announces website re-launch with more educational features and top of the line products - Privacy Matters 1-2-3 and Privacy Matters Identity.

by Cindy Holden

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Authernative, Inc., the developer of innovative user authentication and identity management technologies, announced today that the US Patent & Trademark Office has granted the company its patent for a user authentication method and interface.

The newly issued patent number US 7,188,314 titled “System and method for user authentication interface” describes a graphical user interface supporting an interactive client-server authentication based on Random Partial Pattern Recognition algorithm.

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) today announced that Momentus(R) 5400 FDE.2, the world's strongest encrypting 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drive with a comprehensive suite of powerful security capabilities, is shipping to ASI Computer Technologies for secure notebook systems that will feature Wave Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: WAVX) security management software to simplify enterprise deployments.