Trusteer is taking its online banking security services a step further and will start removing malware that it finds trying to interfere with bank customers' financial transactions.
It appears the second time's the charm for AT&T, which won a $350 million data networking contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture two years after having been awarded -- but later stripped -- of the same deal because of a protest from the losing bidders.
An online retail business built its most critical systems in-house when resources were plentiful. But today the business has downsized considerably. Can IT still regain lost ground?
The notorious ZeuS banking Trojan is showing off a new trick: Popping up on infected computers with a fake enrollment screen for the "Verified By Visa" or "MasterCard SecureCode Security" programs.
MIT Media Lab researchers have developed a mobile-phone application that, coupled with a small plastic device held over the screen, can determine users' eyeglass prescriptions. Called NETRA or near-eye tool for refractive assessment, the system asks users to align lines on the phone's screen while looking through a small plastic cube.
In online banking and payments, customers' PCs have become the Achilles' heel of the financial industry as cyber-crooks remotely take control of the computers to make unauthorized funds transfers, often to faraway places.
Dr. Ahmed El-Haggan, CIO of Coppin State University, used a networking tool to provide 911 dispatchers the location information they need when VoIP users call with emergencies.
The U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs will complete a major network transition this fall, migrating from Sprint as its primary service provider to a new architecture that splits telecom traffic across three other carriers: AT&T, Qwest and Verizon.
