Latest security news.
Security breach severity worsens, study finds, 09/18/07: The number of reported security breaches is down, yet the average severity of breaches has doubled, according to a new study.
E-card industry gets the message from fraudsters, 09/18/07: The e-card industry began seeing some pretty unfriendly greetings this past June.
Federal CISOs seek security standards to prevent data breaches, 09/18/07: Despite official urging, telecommuting within federal agencies is languishing, in part because standards for how to secure mobile endpoints don’t exist — mainly the laptops telecommuters would use when outside the office.
Barracuda announces purchase of NetContinuum, 09/17/07: Security appliance maker Barracuda buys NetContinuum, looking to bolster Web application protection.
Ex-IT worker sues over firing in disk theft case, 09/17/07: In December 2005, a thief broke into Steven Shields’ car outside his Oregon home and walked off with unencrypted computer disks and tapes containing personal information on 365,000 patients of Providence Health System.
Experts say more personal data is on stolen Ohio tape, 09/17/07: An Ohio state government backup tape stolen in June contained far more personal data than was first believed, according to a computer forensics firm hired by the state.
Dark secrets, ugly truths: When ethics and IT collide, 09/17/07: It still weighs heavily on Bryan’s mind, what he found on that executive’s computer, especially when he thinks of his own daughters. He’s particularly troubled that the man he discovered using a company computer to view pornography of Asian women and of children was subsequently promoted and moved to China to run a manufacturing plant.
Daylight Saving Time issue reappears on IT radar, 09/17/07: The Daylight Saving Time scramble of last spring may be in need of a cleanup this fall for companies that spent the summer rolling out new servers, desktops and time-sensitive applications.
Virus comes back from dead on German laptops, 09/17/07: A virus though to have died out years ago is believed to have infected up to 100,000 laptops during manufacture by German vendor Medion.
MarsEdit update fixes several bugs, 09/17/07: Red Sweater Software has released an update to its blog writing application, MarsEdit. The new version, 2.0.2, focuses on fixing several bugs.
Managing Fine Grained Password policies: Microsoft Subnet blogger and security expert Tyson Kopczynski takes Microsoft to task: “Why Microsoft!…you yet again taunt us with a really cool feature. But, yet again, the management of the feature is from the bowls of suckiness…Forgive me for getting riled up. But, you did this to me with BitLocker, again a cool feature that isn’t fully baked.”
Is SharePoint the new Facebook for the enterprise?: Yes, says Microsoft blogger Chris Dalby. “I have blogged previously about Academy Mobile , which I think is a huge step in the right direction with social networking for Sharepoint.”
