Gartner: Consumers dissatisfied with online security
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According to a Gartner survey, online shoppers are frustrated with the lack of security provided by online businesses, and they fear that passwords are no longer sufficient to secure their transactions.
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Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them.
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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Jon Oltsik says the explosion in broadband use forces a rethinking of Internet security. But a lethargic vendor response is not a promising harbinger.
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Whatever the state of homeland security, home computer security is sorely lacking. The nation&#39;s Internet users are confused about computer security, 80 percent of their
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BARCELONA--The director of technology for RSA Security said businesses need to move their online customers toward a federated identity policy or security threats could bring people to lose confidence in trading.
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Google Checkout &#038; Customer Ownership Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines has an interesting post (citing research from Piper Jaffray&#8217;s Safa Rashtchy) on retailer fear surrounding Google&#8217;s control of customer data and the customer relationship. (Eric Schmidt in his remarks at SES gave an unsatisfying implied &#8220;trust us&#8221; response regarding Google&#8217;s management of customer data and consumer privacy [...]
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Some US computer users vastly under-estimate the dangers of going online, a survey shows.
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A service launched last week that aims to help online users determine whether their credit card and Social Security numbers may have been compromised is running into skepticism about how secure -- and safe -- it is.
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The latest Internet Security Threat Report released today by Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) shows that because home users are less likely to have established security measures in place, they are being increasingly targeted by attackers for identity theft, fraud, or other financially motivated crime.
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Multifactor authentication is all the rage these days, thanks to increasingly sophisticated trojans and phishing attacks and even rootkits aimed at stealing passwords and sensitive data. High-stakes online crime has even spurred financial services companies and some enterprises to consider new, "risk-based authentication" solutions, which examine behavioral patterns and session characteristics to identify rogue users.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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More than 3.5 million Americans were victims of phishing scams and online identity theft in the year that ended in August, a 57% increase over 2006, according to Gartner fraud analyst Avivah Litan.
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Consumers are escalating their purchases on the Internet, but concerns  still remain regarding the safety of online purchases.
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Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers. They found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated antivirus software and dozens of spyware programs secretly running on their computers.
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Online technology retailer Geeks.com displays a security vendor's "Hacker Safe" logo on its Web site. But now it's warning customers of a possible data compromise.
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WASHINGTON -- Home Internet users are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers, which found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated antivirus software, and spyware programs secretly
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Users of banking sites just don't pay attention, which may mean that anti-fraud measures such as HTTPS indicators don't help to protect them. The Harvard-MIT study delivering the discoveries this week was mainly composed of users under 30 -- stereotypically the most Net-savvy group around.