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  • Microsoft unleashes five service packs for its enterprise security wares
    In the past week, Microsoft has launched five service packs for its enterprise security wares including Geneva, Forefront, Antigen.
  • Red Hat creates program for cloud providers
    Red Hat wants to make sure it addresses all the cloud security issues that it can, so it’s started a program to certify that its software runs safely in the cloud.
  • Gov't official: We're serious about cybersecurity this time
    The U.S. White House is determined to follow through on its efforts to make cybersecurity a top priority, despite earlier government efforts that have fallen flat, a top official said Wednesday.
  • Juniper nixes ATM security talk
    Router maker Juniper Networks has barred one of the company's security researchers from discussing security flaws in Automated Teller Machines after an ATM maker threatened legal action.
  • Seven Deadly Sins of Social Networking Security
    Admit it: You are currently addicted to social networking. Your drug of choice might be Facebook or Twitter, or maybe Myspace or LinkedIn. Some of you are using all of the above, and using them hard, even IT security practitioners who know better.
  • Unisys launches secure cloud service
    Unisys is announcing a cloud service protected by a double-encryption scheme that it says has earned high government security ratings.
  • Trade groups urge China to drop Web filtering program
    A wide-ranging group of trade associations has urged China to lift its requirement that an Internet filtering program be distributed with all new PCs, with the order set to take effect this week.
  • Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence
    A Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
  • Software not smart enough to sort human relationships
    Internet search engines and software applications can catalog huge volumes of information, but they aren't smart enough to trace personal relationships between people, according to the executive chairman of World-Check, a company that maintains a database of individuals that banks and other companies might want to think twice about doing business with.
  • Unique cloud features can improve cloud security
    Cloud computing may offer a new form of data defense by bringing into play the maneuverability of data to secure it from attacks while the source of the attack can be pinpointed and neutralized, a blogger suggests.
  • Experts Only: Time to Ditch the Antivirus?
    To the average IT security practitioner, the idea of disabling antivirus on new machines might seem blasphemous. After all, weren't we all told in IT Security 101 that everyone needs AV to keep the malware and data thieves at bay?
  • PCI Security Standards Council: Tell us how we're doing
    The PCI Security Standards Council, which establishes technical standards for the payment-card industry, Tuesday invited broad feedback from both its membership and the public in order to understand the best course to take for creating a new security standard next year.
  • CSIRT Management: Lessons from other group postmortems
    My favorite graduate course in the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance Program is the "Computer Security Incident Response Team Management" graduate seminar which I developed some years ago based in part on an extensive series of articles on the subject that appeared here in the Network World Security Strategies and that I collected for readers in a single document freely available on my Web site along with a free companion CD-ROM from the Defense Information Systems Agency on the subject.
  • IBM to manage Qwest services
    Qwest and IBM announced last week that the two companies had signed a five-year agreement for IBM to manage Qwest services targeted to Qwest's midsize business customers including unified communications, managed security and network management.
  • Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?
    Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can. Businesses can buy a BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Motorola Good for Enterprise server to manage user profiles over the air, ensuring that users conform to password policies, encryption policies, app-installation restrictions, and so on, as well as have their e-mail, VPN, and other settings preconfigured to reduce hands-on deployment effort.
  • Symantec unveils endpoint protection services
    Symantec now offers managed endpoint protection services for round-the-clock monitoring and management of computers that use Symantec security products.
  • Subtle pressures for security policy compliance
    Information security officers and managers are constantly looking for ways to encourage colleagues to comply with security policies. The paper "Social Psychology and INFOSEC: Psycho-Social Factors in the Implementation of Information Security Policy" summarizes a number of principles from social psychology that can help practitioners in our work.
  • Fraudsters try to scam security expert on eBay
    When security expert Bruce Schneier tried to sell a used laptop on eBay, he thought it would be easy. Instead, a sale was aborted twice -- first by a scammer using a hacked eBay account and then by a buyer who tried to trick Schneier into sending her the laptop after she cancelled payment.
  • Worm-bearing Twitter spam on the loose
    Twitter spam bearing a worm virus is on the loose today trying to lure Twitter users into opening a malicious file attachment containing malware that could take over Windows-based machines, Symantec is warning.
  • Defense stalwarts see cash in cybersecurity
    As the U.S. government goes on a cyberdefense spending spree, major government contractors are beefing up their network security expertise so they can get in on the action.
  • Corporate America's Tepid Response to Green Dam
    Now that it's safe to do so, a technology industry group has oh-so-nicely asked the Chinese government to reconsider its requirement to include censorware known as Green Dam with all new PCs sold in that country. It's always heartening to see big, rich tech companies standing up to an authoritarian regime on behalf of free speech.
  • Industry, military experts discuss murky cyberwar issues
    Nations increasingly touched by cyberattacks are still in the very early stages of figuring out how to deal with incidents that could escalate into critical national security threats.
  • Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group
    The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name backers like Oracle, Intel, eBay's PayPal, AOL, CA, Novell, Fidelity Investments, Liberty Alliance, Boeing, Internet Society and British Telecom.
  • What is a router?
    Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs?
  • Working with consultants part 4
    One test you can apply to judge the professionalism of a prospective consultant is to ask her to identify the limits of her professional competence. A professional consultant will clearly identify the limits of her knowledge.

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