As part of this week’s ‘Get Safe Online’ campaign, Trusteer today issued a warning that fraudulent phone calls are increasing in popularity amongst the criminal community to commit ID theft and that everyone needs to be on their guard to avoid falling victim – on or offline.  One possible use for these bogus ‘bank’ calls is to utilise personal identification information stolen using malware to give fraudsters credibility as they collect the missing information required to ‘pull off’ their scams.    “The phenomenon of stealing data using one channel such as the web and using it in a different channel or context such as social engineering attacks is often overlooked”, said Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer.  “Trusteer has found that data collected by Man in the Browser attacks can be used for other purposes than automated transaction fraud.  

4/11/2011 - Commenting on revelations that Rochdale council has been censured by the ICO after losing an insecure USB stick that contained the personal details of 18,000 residents, Cryptzone says that the sad fact about the case is that it could so easily have been prevented.

According to Grant Taylor, VP of the IT threat mitigation specialist, controlling data on USB sticks can easily be achieved using a combination of encryption, backed up by enforced security policies to ensure data compliance.

SEATTLE - April 28, 2011 (Investorideas.com Defense Newswire) - Visualant, Inc. (OTCBB: VSUL), a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions, and an emerging leader in security and authentication systems technology and distributor of a wide variety of security solutions through its wholly-owned subsidiary, TransTech Systems, Inc., is pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Furness, a co-inventor of Visualant's Spectral Pattern Matching ("SPM") technology, will consult with the Company and become its Senior Scientific Advisor.

Point Roberts, WA - April 1, 2011  Investorideas.com, a leader in sector research including biotech and biodefense stocks, presents the second in a series of biodefense interviews with Jim Joyce, CEO of Aethlon Medical (OTCBB: AEMD).

Read the first Q&A Interview:
http://www.investorideas.com/CO/AEMD/news/2011/03251.asp

Interview Follow-Up March 31, 2011:

InvestorIdeas: In our interview last week, we discussed the unprecedented opportunity for organizations with treatment candidates against bioterror or pandemic threats to attract non-dilutive funding support from a variety of government agencies. Are these programs really a good use for taxpayer dollars?