Latest security news.
Podcast: Why Are We Mismanaging Passwords?: Research suggests the typical enterprise spends more than $500,000 each year on maintaining and updating privileged passwords, those non-personal, shared and administrative passwords that exist in almost every device or application. Yet they’re still not secure. Adam Bosnian, VP of of products and strategy at Cyber-Ark Software, discusses new approaches to privileged password management with Keith Shaw. (12:22)
Microsoft releases fixes for just four flaws, 09/11/07: Microsoft Tuesday issued four security bulletins that patched just four vulnerabilities in Windows, Visual Studio and the MSN and Windows Live Messenger software, setting a 2007 record for the fewest flaws fixed in a month’s scheduled updates.
Why can’t CIOs and CSOs just get along?, 09/12/07: IT chiefs and security officers might seem likely to view the corporate world similarly from their c-level positions, but that’s often not the case.
FCC details E911 location accuracy requirements, 09/12/07: The FCC laid out a series of benchmarks yesterday in an effort to ensure that wireless carriers meet E911 location accuracy requirements within five years.
Keyloggers proposed to fight terrorism in cybercafes, 09/12/07: An organization in Mumbai, India has proposed that police use keylogging software at cybercafes to keep track of communications between terrorists.
