Latest security news.
How to destroy a hard drive in five seconds, 06/27/06
You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency. There is no time to delete the files, and the drives are in heavy-duty steel cases so that they are difficult to destroy. You have a few minutes before someone finds you, grabs the drives, and searches them for even the smallest trace of useful data. What would you do?
Secrets of crypto Trojan revealed, 06/27/06
Kaspersky Lab has released important details of the inner workings of the nasty Gpcode.ag “ransom” Trojan that appeared in early June.
Saving VoIP from spam, 06/27/06
Now that VoIP has started to deliver on some of the hype, wouldn’t it be a shame if spammers and hackers screwed things up? Researchers at a handful of leading universities are taking steps to see this doesn’t happen.
Nokia joint venture to secure near-field communication, 06/27/06
Nokia has formed a joint venture with a smart card manufacturer to secure electronic payments made using a short-range wireless technology called Near-Field Communication (NFC) useful in financial transactions such as credit card purchasing or public …
HSBC claims customer fraud in Indian services center, 06/27/06
HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Private has claimed that an employee stole confidential data, and misused it to defraud 20 of the bank’s customers in London to the tune of $425,000.
Layer 8: An IT Department that runs under budget?, 06/27/06
Security’s your No. 1 priority right? Yes, except if you work in the Ohio University IT Department, where getting sweet benes and free health club memberships ranked higher. Oh, yeah….
Security Blog: Terrorists and the SWIFT network, 06/27/06
What a lot of righteous indignation from the White House that the major …
Messaging Newsletter: Is World Cup surfing affecting your company’s network?, 06/27/06
Although the primary threat to most organizations’ networks consists of e-mail-borne viruses, worms, and spam, Web surfing and the threats that …
VPNs Newsletter: Check Point releases multifunction security box for SMBs, 06/27/06
Check Point Software is shipping its multifunction security device for small and midsize businesses, continuing its thrust toward more …
Fighting spam zombies from outer space, 06/27/06
University of Calgary researchers warn that a new wave of spam could be on the way that tricks recipients by looking like it’s a message sent from their friends’ e-mail address.
Security Strategies Newsletter: Control visible distribution lists in e-mail, 06/27/06
Recently a nice lady in the Human Resources department at my university sent out a note to a dozen people reminding us that we had not yet finished …
‘Active cookies’ to the rescue, 06/27/06
An Indiana University scientist is behind a new company called RavenWhite that is exploiting cookie technology to protect Web users from identity theft and other online threats.
Symantec CEO: Microsoft has ‘long way to go’, 06/27/06
Symantec CEO John Thompson has had a bumpy ride over this past year. He closed one of the largest software company acquisitions in history — last year’s $10.2 billion purchase of Veritas Software — and has been dealing with executive departures and …
Fiberlink aims latest security features at mobile workers, 06/27/06
Fiberlink announced Monday that it is beefing up its security services for mobile workers.
10 cutting edge network research projects you should know about, 06/27/06
We kicked off an effort at the start of this year to look more closely at network research happening at university and other labs, figuring that while the technologies being worked on won’t necessarily find their way into your network immediately, …
Symantec plans early warning system, 06/26/06
Symantec is expected to offer by the end of September an early warning advisory service to Web surfers about known phishing and otherwise suspicious Web sites.
Identity Management Newsletter: Identity management areas where consolidation isn’t likely, 06/26/06
I said that the recent Catalyst Conference held few new initiatives and no surprises. But there was one thing that struck me as surprising – the lack …
VPN cavalry coming to Windows smartphones, 06/26/06
Enterprises adopting Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition for road warriors can now integrate a VPN system, certified by Microsoft for secure and stable access to their applications.
