Secure Computing has reported an ingenious new type of phishing scam that uses VOIP telephony to entrap its victims. Dubbed "vishing", the fraud sees a randomly dialled user phoned by an automated system to be told that their credit card has been used illegally.
A national index of Canadian technology companies working in the advanced security sector is being created by several associations banding together for that purpose.
The number of people working from home is increasing by around 15 percent a year, but many of them are still failing to address IT security issues and are leaving their computers open to attack.