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Settlement with clothing company Guess shows the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on companies with lax security on their websites.
If you're not prepared to deal with the consequences of bringing in the authorities, making that phone call can be a bad business move.
On Oct. 2, the General Services Administration released a list from The SANS Institute and FBI of the top 20 Internet security vulnerabilities
In the United States, some companies have been using provisions of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to keep IT security companies from informing the public about software vulnerabilities.
Experts say the following common problems in software code, which programmers haven't bothered to mitigate, account for the vast majority of vulnerabilities. The good news: Most of these are easily fixed if they're found.