Forensics software can be hacked; Cisco adds security, monitoring to WAN optimization gear

Opinion
Jul 26, 20071 min

Latest security news.

Researchers: Forensics software can be hacked, 07/24/07: The software that police and enterprise security teams use to investigate wrongdoing on computers is not as secure as it should be, according to researchers with Isec Partners.

Cisco adds security, monitoring to WAN optimization gear, 07/25/07: Cisco is introducing encryption of data as it sits on disks within its Wide-Area Application Services gear, making it impossible for thieves to make sense of the data even if they steal the drives.

Researcher publishes attack code for Mozilla flaw, 07/25/07: Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim’s machine.

Harvard Management fine-tunes security, 07/24/07: Harvard Management Co., manager of Harvard’s $30 billion endowment, gets security health checkup based on ISO 17799.

MySpace hosting 29,000 sex offenders, 07/25/07: News Corp.’s popular MySpace.com social networking site hosted Web pages for at least 29,000 known sex offenders as of July 2007, North Carolina’s Attorney General said Tuesday.